Security-Cleared Configuration & Release Lead – DC Onsite

TDI (Tetrad Digital Integrity); Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 130,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Tetrad Digital Integrity (TDI) is establishing a new Agile development team in the Washington, DC area to deliver federal IT modernization. The Configuration Manager will lead end-to-end CM across dev through IL5/IL6 production, coordinating release governance and traceability using Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket.

An active TS/SCI clearance is required for this onsite role. You will manage CM plans, release calendars, and deployment readiness, while working with DevOps, cloud, data, and security

Qualifications

• Active DoD TS/SCI security clearance. Ability to pass additional suitability screening(s)
• Current Security+ or equivalent/higher
• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience
• Experience leading or supporting configuration management, change management, deployment coordination, or baseline management for complex systems
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional release planning, readiness, approval, deployment, and validation
• Experience with Agile/DevOps workflows and tools, including Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket/Git
• Familiarity with CI/CD, artifact management, branching strategies, automated testing, and promotion pipelines
• Ability to understand complex systems and coordinate dependencies, risks, impacts, and stakeholder decisions
• Strong communication and organizational skills for managing multiple releases and fast-paced environments

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end configuration management across environments (dev through IL5/IL6 production)
• Own CM plans, release procedures, baseline controls, governance models, and change workflows
• Manage release calendars, cadences, readiness criteria, deployment windows, and rollback planning
• Coordinate release planning across engineering, DevOps, cloud, data, test, cyber, IA, operations, and customer teams
• Facilitate release readiness reviews, configuration control boards, go/no-go reviews, and retrospectives
• Ensure release packages are complete, reviewed, and approved with all artifacts and evidence
• Maintain traceability across requirements, defects, risks, and changes using Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket
• Manage CM for software, scripts, data pipelines, dashboards, IaC, automation, interfaces, and runbooks
• Maintain environment baselines for non-prod, IL5/IL6 targets, and operational systems
• Partner with DevOps to ensure CI/CD pipelines support controlled promotion with versioning and tests
• Coordinate DoD-aligned security requirements, STIGs, vulnerability remediation, and audit evidence
• Manage release impacts across mission-critical capabilities and data sources
• Oversee release and configuration for AWS IL5/IL6 platforms and tools like Elastic/Kibana, Kafka, Databricks, ServiceNow, Jira/Confluence, Bitbucket
• Identify and manage release risks, dependencies, blockers, and coordination gaps
• Provide status reporting on scope, readiness, risks, defects, deployment progress
• Develop release dashboards, metrics, and health indicators
• Support audits, customer reviews, and readiness assessments with CM records
• Drive continuous improvement of CM and release processes
• Provide CM/release training and mentoring across teams
• Coordinate with external partners on integration planning and data dependencies

Skills

Security clearance

Security+

CM/Release management

Agile/DevOps

Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket

CI/CD familiarity

Complex systems coordination

Communication/organization

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Git

Job description

Tetrad Digital Integrity (TDI) is establishing a new Agile development team in the Washington, DC area to deliver federal IT modernization. The Configuration Manager will lead end-to-end CM across dev through IL5/IL6 production, coordinating release governance and traceability using Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket.

An active TS/SCI clearance is required for this onsite role. You will manage CM plans, release calendars, and deployment readiness, while working with DevOps, cloud, data, and security