Senior Configuration & Release Manager

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

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👔 Manager

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DecisionPoint Corporation

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Defense • Consulting • Logistics

DecisionPoint Corporation is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business specializing in IT modernization and digital transformation for government agencies. They provide comprehensive services including cybersecurity, health IT, and intelligent automation solutions, aimed at improving operational efficiency and effectiveness while ensuring secure cloud migration. Their Centers of Excellence approach drives mission success by addressing the most pressing challenges faced by government entities through innovative technology and expert support.

📋 Description

• Establish, maintain, and govern configuration-management and release-management processes for the ENLIST software portfolio • Define and maintain approved configuration baselines for applications, services, interfaces, infrastructure components, documentation, and supporting artifacts • Identify configuration items and maintain version, ownership, relationship, dependency, and status information • Maintain configuration records and reconcile approved configuration items with the CMDB • Investigate and resolve discrepancies among source repositories, deployment environments, release records, inventories, and CMDB data • Prepare configuration summaries and baseline status for reporting, audits, release reviews, and operational support • Maintain change records and ensure approved changes are traceable from request and authorization through implementation and validation • Coordinate configuration-control and change-control activities with Government representatives and program governance bodies • Support change-control board reviews with impact assessments, dependency information, implementation plans, rollback plans, and decision materials • Analyze proposed releases for technical, operational, security, interface, data, training, documentation, and scheduling impacts • Develop and maintain integrated release plans, schedules, readiness criteria, dependencies, approval points, and implementation milestones • Coordinate release activities across development, testing, cybersecurity, infrastructure, database, cloud, network, training, service management, and operations teams • Maintain source and version descriptions, known-defect lists, bills of materials, build instructions, installation procedures, deployment instructions, configuration guidance, validation steps, and rollback procedures • Assemble complete, approved, reproducible, and traceable release packages • Coordinate release-readiness reviews and release approvals • Support deployment scheduling, implementation coordination, status communication, issue escalation, and post-deployment validation • Coordinate rollback or recovery activities when acceptance criteria are not met • Manage operational handover and provide support teams with procedures, configuration information, known issues, contacts, and troubleshooting guidance • Ensure implemented releases and configuration changes are accurately reflected in the CMDB and supporting records • Track release metrics, configuration discrepancies, unauthorized changes, failed changes, rollback activity, known defects, and improvement actions • Support audits, assessments, inspections, and reviews by producing traceable configuration and release evidence • Participate in sprint planning, release planning, demonstrations, retrospectives, and program-governance activities • Promote continuous improvement of configuration control, release quality, CMDB accuracy, documentation, and operational transition

🎯 Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher • Bachelor’s degree in information technology, information systems, or a related field, or an equivalent permitted by the applicable labor category • At least eight years of relevant professional experience • Experience performing configuration analysis • Experience establishing, maintaining, or controlling configuration baselines • Experience maintaining or reconciling configuration data in a CMDB • Experience planning and coordinating software or technology releases • Experience preparing and maintaining technical documentation • Experience managing change records, configuration items, versions, dependencies, or release artifacts • Ability to analyze release impacts across applications, interfaces, data, infrastructure, cybersecurity, testing, training, and operations • Ability to maintain source and version descriptions, known-defect lists, bills of materials, configuration summaries, and build or deployment documentation • Ability to coordinate release approvals, implementation activities, validation, rollback planning, and operational handover • Ability to maintain accurate, complete, and auditable configuration and release records • Strong analytical, organizational, facilitation, technical documentation, and stakeholder-communication skills • Ability to collaborate effectively with Government representatives, developers, testers, cybersecurity personnel, infrastructure teams, service-management teams, and operations personnel • Preferred: ITIL certification or recognized configuration-management certification • Preferred: ITIL 4 Foundation, ITIL 4 Practice Manager, or an advanced ITIL credential • Preferred: Configuration Management Process Improvement Center certification, CM2 certification, or another recognized configuration-management credential • Preferred: Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense software-development, modernization, or information-technology programs • Preferred: Experience supporting mission-critical, regulated, security-sensitive, or high-availability systems • Preferred: Experience with ServiceNow CMDB, BMC Helix, Jira Service Management, or comparable configuration-management platforms • Preferred: Experience with GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Artifactory, Nexus, or comparable source-code and artifact-management platforms • Preferred: Experience with automated build, CI/CD, deployment, and release-management pipelines • Preferred: Experience preparing bills of materials or software bills of materials • Preferred: Experience supporting configuration-control boards, change-advisory boards, release-readiness reviews, or formal Government approval processes • Preferred: Experience with baseline audits, configuration-status accounting, physical configuration audits, or functional configuration audits • Preferred: Familiarity with Agile, DevSecOps, systems-engineering, service-transition, and secure software-development practices • Preferred: Familiarity with DoD security requirements, DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides, software supply-chain controls, and release governance • Preferred: Experience coordinating production deployments, operational handovers, rollback activities, and post-implementation reviews

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer • Pay transparency protections • Resume and personal information considered for this and comparable positions