Remote Senior Configuration & Release Engineer

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; College Park (MD); On-site; USD 74,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Senior Configuration Analyst to lead software configuration management and release engineering for VA projects in a remote setting. The role emphasizes CM tool development, build automation, and governance across multiple environments.

Candidates should have deep CM expertise, experience in DevOps and CI/CD, and strong collaboration skills to mentor junior staff while coordinating with stakeholders. U.S.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex software builds and releases across environments.

Responsibilities

• Support VA applications and migrate to the cloud.
• Develop and maintain CM tools for identification, control, reporting, and delivery of software and COTS products.
• Perform CM and release engineering tasks to document and standardize builds.
• Design, develop, automate, and maintain productivity tools to improve modeling and development.
• Implement build procedures supporting software product development and use.
• Develop software CM standards for company-wide use.
• Train developers in CM tools and quality practices.
• Provide technical guidance for complex problems.
• Operate autonomously and make sound decisions.
• Ensure compliant, repeatable build and deployment processes across projects.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead and train junior analysts/engineers in CM best practices.

Skills

Leadership

Regulated environments

CM expertise

DevOps

CI/CD

Scripting

Source control

IaC

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related

10+ years of relevant experience

Tools

Git

GitLab

GitHub

Azure DevOps Repos

Subversion

Jenkins

Azure DevOps Pipelines

GitHub Actions

Nexus

Artifactory

Bash

PowerShell

Python

Ansible

Terraform

JIRA

Azure Boards

Trello

Confluence

Visio

Lucidchart

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Senior Configuration Analyst to lead software configuration management and release engineering for VA projects in a remote setting. The role emphasizes CM tool development, build automation, and governance across multiple environments.

Candidates should have deep CM expertise, experience in DevOps and CI/CD, and strong collaboration skills to mentor junior staff while coordinating with stakeholders. U.S.