Leidos Intelligence Group is seeking a Configuration Manager who will be responsible for the configuration and release management of multiple legacy and cloud-based systems.
Primary Responsibilities: The customer will utilizes lean agile and configuration management (CM) best practices to standardize IT-project governance across components for its set of corporate applications. Projects are in various stages of development, operations and maintenance (O&M), and cloud migration. The customer requires support for CM through leadership in agile practice and system engineering discipline. The work will involve all aspects of project management and technical leadership, from requirements to delivery, to ensure on-time, on-budget, and high-quality product deliveries to a wide range of corporate customers. Work may be performed independently or within a team environment. The Configuration Manager will be responsible for configuration and release management of multiple legacy and cloud-based systems; author program documents to include CM Plan, software management plan, review boards documentation, charters, and standard operating procedures; and maintain or update program-level Configuration Item documentation. They will conduct periodic configuration audits to validate the accuracy of baselines, plan and implement software releases across engineering, development, and data teams, and ensure the contents of each release or iteration are tracked and controlled. They will also create deployment schedules and coordinate resource availability with internal and external partners, coordinate with management to communicate release contents to Customers and Security personnel for approvals, and prepare release notes accordingly, and coordinate with management on Customer approvals. The Configuration Managers will coordinate and communicate with management to plan and schedule releases to Test and Production, establish directories and prepare files for deployment to Test and Production environments, and validate the completeness of promotion requests. They will be expected to create, schedule, and coordinate planned system outages in required databases; assist in program reviews and provide timely status reports to management; assist in managing the workload of the agile teams; and be required to accommodate software deployments outside of business hours.
Basic Qualifications:
Must have a TS/SCI with Poly to be considered.
Must have at least 12 years of experience and a Bachelors OR at least 10 years of experience and a Masters OR 16+ years of work experience in lieu of a degree.
Experience working with a software engineering or configuration management team.
Demonstrated experience engineering technical configuration management process, automation, and its execution for sensitive data holding environment.
Demonstrated experience managing configuration processes.
Demonstrated experience maintaining Event Logs and communicating status with other teams.
Demonstrated experience reporting and escalating system outages and writing outage reports.
Experience with Unix and Linux. Must have ServiceNow Enterprise Service Portal experience.
Demonstrated experience using SharePoint or Confluence to maintain documentation libraries
Demonstrated experience coordinating cross-team deliveries and de-conflicting dependencies
Experience working with highly sensitive data.
Experience deploying and backing out software changes into TEST and PROD Cloud instances.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with Puppet.
Experience with Mavin.
Experience with Jenkins.
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For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
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