
Release & Configuration Manager
GovCIO
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $165,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Establish, maintain, and enforce Configuration Management (CM) policies, plans, and SOPs across the SDLC.
- Ensure configuration item (CI) identification, version control, baselining, and traceability across environments.
- Maintain audit-ready CM repositories supporting CMMI Level 3, FedRAMP, FISMA, and VA compliance requirements.
- Author and maintain CM Plans, change records, release documentation, and system inventories.
- Plan, coordinate, and execute routine and emergency releases with full rollback and contingency readiness.
- Manage integrated release calendars across multiple teams and environments (Dev, Test, Staging, Production).
- Partner with DevOps and QA to align CI/CD pipelines, ensuring release consistency, integrity, and approval workflows.
- Lead release readiness reviews and post-release retrospectives to drive continuous improvement.
- Ensure secure integration of configuration management practices within CI/CD pipelines.
- Coordinate version control, branching strategies, and artifact management across tools such as Bitbucket and JIRA.
- Enforce change control and release gating aligned with security and compliance requirements.
- Serve as the central coordination point between Product, Engineering, QA, Security, and Operations.
- Provide clear communication to stakeholders on release status, risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
- Mentor teams on CM best practices within Agile and SAFe delivery models.
- Administer and optimize JIRA and Confluence for release tracking, reporting, and transparency.
Requirements
- Bachelor's (or equivalent) with 12+ years of experience.
- Demonstrated experience supporting federal programs (VA, DoD, Navy, Army, or similar).
- Proven success in managing frequent production releases with minimal downtime and high reliability.
Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Corporate Discounts
- Learning & Development platform, to include certification preparation content
- Training, Education and Certification Assistance*
- Referral Bonus Program
- Internal Mobility Program
- Pet Insurance
- Flexible Work Environment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Configuration Managementversion controlbaseliningtraceabilityCI/CD pipelineschange controlrelease documentationartifact managementAgileSAFe
Soft Skills
communicationleadershipmentoringcoordinationcontinuous improvementstakeholder managementrisk managementdependency managementplanningexecution