Remote Senior Configuration Engineer - Cloud & Release Lead

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Silver Spring (MD); Remote; USD 74,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Senior Configuration Engineer to support VA applications and lead cloud migration. You will develop and maintain CM tools, ensure repeatable, compliant builds, and guide developers in CM practices across multiple environments.

You will design build procedures, establish company-wide CM standards, and mentor junior analysts while collaborating with stakeholders to deliver reliable software solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience leading CM and release engineering across complex builds.
• Deep CM knowledge within regulated or federal environments.
• Solid grasp of development, QA, systems engineering, and DevOps.
• Familiarity with CM practices: identification, baselining, change control, status accounting.
• Scripting for automation (Bash, PowerShell, Python).

Responsibilities

• Support VA applications and migrate to the cloud.
• Develop and maintain CM tools for identification, control, reporting and delivery of software.
• Perform CM and release tasks to document builds and ensure compliant configurations.
• Design, develop, automate, and maintain productivity tools for modeling and dev.
• Design and implement build procedures to support product development.
• Develop CM standards for company-wide use.
• Train software developers in CM tools and quality standards.
• Provide technical guidance and solutions to complex problems.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders and mentor junior staff.

Skills

CM tools

Release engineering

Git/GitLab/GitHub

CI/CD

Scripting

Ansible

Terraform

Cloud migration

Regulated environments

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Git

GitLab

GitHub

Azure DevOps Repos

Subversion

Jenkins

Azure Pipelines

GitHub Actions

Nexus

Artifactory

Ansible

Terraform

Jira

Azure Boards

Trello

Confluence

Visio

Lucidchart

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Senior Configuration Engineer to support VA applications and lead cloud migration. You will develop and maintain CM tools, ensure repeatable, compliant builds, and guide developers in CM practices across multiple environments.

You will design build procedures, establish company-wide CM standards, and mentor junior analysts while collaborating with stakeholders to deliver reliable software solutions.