GovCIO

Release & Configuration Manager

GovCIO

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $140,000 - $165,000 per year

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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