Configuration Manager

Slingshot Aerospace

Configuration Manager at Slingshot Aerospace building scalable configuration management practices across programs. Responsibilities include standards development and collaboration with technical teams.

Posted 5/26/2026full-timeRemote • Colorado • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $120,000 - $170,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Execute all position responsibilities in alignment with Slingshot’s core values, mission, and purpose.
Serve as Slingshot’s first dedicated Configuration Manager, helping build a scalable configuration management function for software, infrastructure, cloud, DevSecOps, documentation, and program artifacts.
Partner with Engineering, Program Management, Product, DevSecOps, and Security/GRC to develop and maintain a Configuration Management Plan that supports current program needs and future enterprise growth.
Stand up, operate, and mature a phased Configuration Control Board process, starting with one priority program and expanding toward a broader enterprise or federated model over time.
Own and maintain standard templates and workflows for change requests, impact analysis, approvals, change records, configuration status accounting, and configuration audits.
Establish and maintain configuration baselines for key systems, services, applications, infrastructure, environments, documentation, and other controlled artifacts.
Facilitate CCB meetings, drive decisions, document outcomes, and ensure approved changes are traceable, communicated, and reflected in the appropriate systems of record.
Help define CCB membership, decision rights, escalation paths, and emergency change processes in partnership with Engineering, Product, DevSecOps, Program Management, and Security/GRC stakeholders.
Work closely with technical teams to ensure configuration management integrates cleanly with Git-based workflows, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, cloud environments, release processes, and documentation practices.
Support configuration management evidence needs for CUI, classified, CMMC, NIST, RMF, and ATO-related activities.
Serve as a named configuration management point of contact for relevant government programs, reviews, audits, and authorization efforts.
Help evaluate and implement tooling or systems of record for configuration items, baselines, change records, approvals, and audit evidence.
Create practical, right-sized processes that preserve team agility while improving consistency, traceability, and audit readiness.
Partner with Security/GRC and Engineering teams to align configuration management practices with NIST SP 800-171, CMMC 2.0, NIST SP 800-53, NIST CSF, and other relevant government or industry expectations.
Support operational and programmatic visibility by improving the traceability between changes, releases, incidents, defects, baselines, and documentation.
Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating configuration management expectations into actionable workflows for teams across Slingshot.

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years of relevant experience in configuration management, change management, release management, DevSecOps governance, technical program operations, systems engineering, or a related discipline.
Experience supporting software, cloud, infrastructure, DevSecOps, or technical product environments.
Experience operating or supporting Configuration Control Boards, change advisory boards, release governance, or similar technical change control processes.
Working knowledge of configuration identification, baselines, change control, status accounting, and configuration audits.
Hands-on experience with Git-based workflows and tools such as GitHub or GitLab.
Experience using Jira and Confluence to manage work, documentation, approvals, or program artifacts.
Technical fluency with CI/CD concepts, release pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, cloud environments, version control, and software delivery lifecycle practices.
Familiarity with NIST SP 800-171 or similar security/configuration management expectations for controlled environments.
Ability to work across Engineering, Product, DevSecOps, Security/GRC, and Program Management teams to build alignment and drive decisions.
Strong written communication skills, including the ability to create clear process documentation, templates, meeting records, change records, and audit-ready evidence.
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building processes from scratch in a fast-moving startup environment.
Ability to balance rigor with pragmatism, creating processes that are clear, lightweight, enforceable, and scalable.
Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Active or Prior Top Secret or TS/SCI clearance required.

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Hard Skills & Tools

configuration managementchange managementrelease managementDevSecOps governancesystems engineeringconfiguration identificationchange controlstatus accountingconfiguration auditsCI/CD

Soft Skills

strong written communicationability to work across teamscomfortable operating in ambiguityability to balance rigor with pragmatism

Certifications

NIST SP 800-171CMMC 2.0NIST SP 800-53NIST CSF