Sr. Configuration Management Specialist

Spatial Front•Suitland, MD

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Spatial Front, Inc. (SFI), a two-time USA Today Top Workplaces awardee and Washington Top Workplaces honoree, is seeking a Configuration Management Specialist (CI/CD Pipeline Automation) to support our growing team. This position establishes, maintains, and optimizes configuration management processes, software version control practices, build/release management, and CI/CD pipeline automation across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Operating within a DevOps framework, this role bridges development, QA, cybersecurity, and operations teams to guarantee that all software artifacts, environments, and infrastructure configurations remain secure, traceable, compliant, and deployable.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
7+ years in configuration management, DevOps, release engineering, or software engineering within enterprise environments.
Proficient with Git-based version control systems alongside direct experience utilizing CI/CD platforms like GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins.
Practical knowledge of IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
Competency in scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, Bash) paired with a foundational familiarity with AWS cloud platforms.
Core comprehension of the SDLC, Agile, DevSecOps, change management, and automated test/security compliance frameworks.
Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain one.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience supporting government, defense, healthcare, or financial services industries.
Expertise implementing secure software development practices and automated compliance controls for enterprise-scale cloud deployments.
One or more of the following certifications: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), GitHub Actions Certification, SAFe DevOps Practitioner / Certified ScrumMaster (CSM).

Responsibilities

Develop and enforce configuration management plans, policies, and software baselines; oversee software versioning, branching, merging, and tagging strategies while conducting regular status accounting and configuration audits.
Design, implement, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines; embed automated quality gates and security scanning into workflows to maximize deployment reliability and release velocity.
Coordinate software builds and deployments across multiple environments, manage artifact repositories, maintain comprehensive release documentation, and support disaster recovery/rollback procedures.
Automate environment provisioning and maintain infrastructure configuration consistency across development, testing, staging, and production environments in collaboration with cloud infrastructure teams.
Support SDLC governance and security requirements; provide technical guidance, documentation, and training to cross-functional team members on configuration management and DevOps best practices.