USAF - Configuration Manager

cFocus Software Incorporated•Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD

1d•Onsite

About The Position

cFocus Software is seeking a Configuration Manager to support the United States Air Force program. This role is based onsite in Ellsworth, South Dakota, and requires an active TS/SCI SSBI clearance. The Configuration Manager will be responsible for establishing, maintaining, and enforcing configuration management plans, procedures, and standards for complex, mission-critical federal information systems. This includes identifying configuration items, defining baselines, managing version control, coordinating changes, and ensuring the integrity of configuration baselines throughout the lifecycle of the system.

Requirements

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.

Responsibilities

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.