Senior Configuration Lead: DoD/TS‑SCI Release Governance

The Amatriot Group; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Amatriot Group in Washington, DC is seeking a Configuration Manager to lead end-to-end CM across dev to IL5/IL6 production. You will own release plans, baselines, governance, and change workflows, coordinating across engineering, DevOps, cyber, and operations to ensure secure, auditable releases.

The role requires strong leadership, clear communication, and the ability to drive readiness while mitigating risks in a complex DoD-aligned environment.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Security+ or equivalent.
• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years relevant experience.
• Ability to pass additional suitability screenings as required.
• Experience leading CM, change management, deployment coordination.
• Experience leading cross-functional release planning, readiness, approval, deployment, validation.
• Experience coordinating releases across multiple environments.
• Experience with Agile/DevOps workflows.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket/Git, and related tools.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, artifact management, branching strategies, automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end configuration management across all 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, cutover and rollback planning.
• Coordinate release planning and execution 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, documented, traceable, and approved with evidence.
• Maintain traceability across requirements, defects, risks, and changes using Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and CI/CD tools.
• Manage configuration control for software, scripts, data pipelines, dashboards, IaC, automation workflows, interfaces, components, runbooks.
• Maintain environment baselines for non-prod, simulators, IL5/IL6 targets, and operational systems.
• Partner with DevOps to ensure CI/CD pipelines with versioning, approval gates, automated tests, and artifact retention.
• Coordinate DoD-aligned security requirements, STIG configurations, vulnerability remediation, and audit evidence.

Skills

Release planning

CM/Release management

Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket

AWS GovCloud

CI/CD / DevOps

Security/STIG compliance

Cross-functional leadership

DoD/military

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket/Git

ServiceNow

Kibana

Kafka

Databricks

AWS GovCloud

Job description

The Amatriot Group in Washington, DC is seeking a Configuration Manager to lead end-to-end CM across dev to IL5/IL6 production. You will own release plans, baselines, governance, and change workflows, coordinating across engineering, DevOps, cyber, and operations to ensure secure, auditable releases.

The role requires strong leadership, clear communication, and the ability to drive readiness while mitigating risks in a complex DoD-aligned environment.