The Role
Maintain and enforce configuration management for Air Force systems: define baselines and configuration items, manage change control and CCBs, coordinate patches/updates across middleware, databases, virtualization, identity and cybersecurity tooling, preserve audit-ready repositories and metrics, support RMF/A&A evidence, and provide CM guidance, reviews, and training to engineers and stakeholders.
Summary Generated by Built In
cFocus Software seeks a Configuration Manager to join our program supporting the United States Air Force. This position is onsite with the onsite location being in Ellsworth, South Dakota. This position requires a TS/SCI SSBI clearance.
Qualifications:
Qualifications:
- Active TS/SCI SSBI clearance
- B.S. Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- 6+ years of Configuration Management experience
- Demonstrated experience managing configuration control for complex, mission-critical federal, DoD, or enterprise information systems.
- Strong knowledge of configuration identification, baseline management, change control, status accounting, verification/audit, release control, and document governance.
- Experience leading configuration control boards, engineering change reviews, configuration reviews, readiness reviews, and production-release gates.
- Ability to evaluate technical, operational, cybersecurity, interface, data, schedule, test, and rollback impacts of proposed changes.
- Experience controlling configurations across software, Windows/Linux infrastructure, virtualization, databases, middleware, identity services, cybersecurity tooling, and development/test environments.
- Experience coordinating patch, vulnerability, security-directive, upgrade, enhancement, and emergency-change activities within prescribed timelines.
- Ability to maintain authoritative repositories, configuration item relationships, baselines, version histories, approval records, and audit-ready evidence.
- Working knowledge of RMF, Assessment and Authorization, security-control evidence, vulnerability remediation, and DoD/Air Force cybersecurity compliance.
- Strong process leadership, facilitation, technical writing, quality control, analysis, metrics, stakeholder coordination, and communication skills.
- Establish, maintain, and enforce the configuration management plan, procedures, standards, roles, approval authorities, and lifecycle controls for FMWF and associated environments.
- Identify configuration items and define authoritative technical baselines for software, infrastructure, databases, middleware, security components, documentation, development/test assets, and deployed capabilities.
- Maintain configuration identification, version control, status accounting, change history, relationships, ownership, and traceability for configuration items and baselines.
- Coordinate engineering change requests from initiation through impact analysis, technical review, authorization, implementation, verification, closure, and baseline incorporation.
- Facilitate configuration control boards and other change-governance forums; prepare agendas, decision packages, technical evidence, minutes, action items, and approval records.
- Plan and support configuration reviews, readiness reviews, production-readiness assessments, and other systems engineering technical reviews.
- Ensure proposed changes include technical, cybersecurity, operational, schedule, interface, testing, rollback, data, and mission-impact analysis before approval.
- Coordinate changes across application, WebSphere middleware, DB2 database, Windows/Linux, Active Directory, Nutanix virtualization, CyberArk, development/test, and cybersecurity stakeholders.
- Control enterprise patch and security-directive changes, including IAVAs, TCNOs, NOTAMs, updates, enhancements, and corrective engineering modifications.
- Ensure patches, updates, enhancements, and system modifications are validated in controlled development/test environments before production release.
- Implement configuration management controls for development assets, test data, builds, releases, deployment packages, scripts, documentation, and environment settings.
- Verify production readiness, approved implementation, rollback capability, required evidence, and post-deployment performance following configuration changes.
- Validate that configuration baseline integrity is preserved after modifications and that unauthorized or undocumented changes are identified and corrected.
- Govern technical documentation, naming conventions, versioning, approvals, retention, distribution, and records traceability.
- Maintain configuration status metrics, change backlogs, aging, implementation success, exceptions, audit findings, baseline discrepancies, and QASP-aligned performance data.
- Support technical audits, cybersecurity assessments, RMF authorization evidence, vulnerability remediation, incident reviews, COOP, disaster recovery, and emergency changes.
- Provide configuration management guidance, training, and quality reviews to engineers, administrators, developers, cybersecurity personnel, and program staff.
Skills Required
- Active TS/SCI SSBI clearance
- B.S. in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- 6+ years of Configuration Management experience
- Experience managing configuration control for complex, mission-critical federal, DoD, or enterprise information systems
- Knowledge of configuration identification, baseline management, change control, status accounting, verification/audit, release control, and document governance
- Experience leading configuration control boards, engineering change reviews, configuration reviews, readiness reviews, and production-release gates
- Ability to evaluate technical, operational, cybersecurity, interface, data, schedule, test, and rollback impacts of proposed changes
- Experience controlling configurations across software, Windows/Linux infrastructure, virtualization, databases, middleware, identity services, cybersecurity tooling, and development/test environments
- Experience coordinating patch, vulnerability, security-directive, upgrade, enhancement, and emergency-change activities within prescribed timelines
- Ability to maintain authoritative repositories, configuration item relationships, baselines, version histories, approval records, and audit-ready evidence
- Working knowledge of RMF, Assessment and Authorization, security-control evidence, and DoD/Air Force cybersecurity compliance
- Strong process leadership, facilitation, technical writing, quality control, analysis, metrics, stakeholder coordination, and communication skills
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The Company
What We Do
Established in 2006, cFocus Software automates FedRAMP compliance and develops government chatbots for the Azure Government Cloud, Office 365, and SharePoint. cFocus Software is the exclusive vendor of ATO (Authority To Operate) as a Service™, which automates FedRAMP compliance for the Azure Government Cloud and Office 365. Contact Us for a demo of ATO as a Service™ or a FREE government chatbot proof of concept project today!
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