Senior Configuration Engineer - Remote Cloud Release Leader

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Blacksburg (VA); Remote; USD 74,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Senior Configuration Analyst to lead software configuration management and release engineering for VA-related applications. The role is remote and based in the United States, with a Public Trust (MBI) security clearance level requirement and a commitment to cloud migration and CM tool development.

You will guide CM processes, build procedures, and automate tooling while mentoring junior staff, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring compliant

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline and 10+ years (or substitute 8+ years for education) of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading software builds/releases across multiple environments in regulated or federal settings.
• Deep expertise in software configuration management, release engineering, and CM practices (identification, baselining, change control, status accounting).

Responsibilities

• Support VA applications and spearhead migration to the cloud.
• Develop and maintain CM tools to support identification, control, reporting, and delivery of software and COTS products.
• Perform CM and release engineering tasks ensuring build parameters comply with standard configurations.
• Design, automate, and maintain productivity tools for software modeling and development.
• Lead and train junior analysts/engineers in CM best practices.
• Ensure compliant, repeatable build and deployment processes across projects.

Skills

Configuration Management

Release engineering

DevOps

CI/CD

Git/GitHub/GitLab

CI/CD Tools

Scripting

Infrastructure as Code

Ansible

Terraform

JIRA/Trello

Confluence

Quality Assurance

Development/QA/Systems Eng/DevOps

Azure DevOps

Education

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

10+ years of relevant experience

Tools

Jenkins

Azure DevOps Pipelines

GitHub Actions

Nexus

Artifactory

JIRA

Confluence

Visio

Lucidchart

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Senior Configuration Analyst to lead software configuration management and release engineering for VA-related applications. The role is remote and based in the United States, with a Public Trust (MBI) security clearance level requirement and a commitment to cloud migration and CM tool development.

You will guide CM processes, build procedures, and automate tooling while mentoring junior staff, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring compliant