Configuration Management Lead - Arlington, VA

Seeking a career with a sense of purpose, work life balance, and growth opportunities? There’s a place for you at Leidos!

We are currently seeking a Lead Configuration Manager to join the Compartmented Enterprise Services Office (CESO) effort. This program is establishing a modern secure web service (SWS) operation as part of a state-of-the-art, highly automated platform capable of supporting a rapidly expanding customer population. Apply today to become part of the Leidos team that is assisting CESO as they migrate to a high security cloud environment by providing network and communication services, monitoring services, and system administration.

This position is based in Arlington, VA and is 100% on-site.

Primary Responsibilities

• Reporting on metrics of Request for Change (RFC’s), utilizing Jira’s ticketing system
• Managing all phases of the RFC lifecycle and ticketing experience using Atlassian tool (Jira) 
• Manage and enforce strict adherence to hardware/software release processes, using best practices.  
• Effective in producing clear and concise written configuration status reports and provide support to contract deliverables. 
• Manage, own, and develop new solutions and processes as  needed. 
• Define, update, and extend Program Configuration Management (CM) team structure and  provide training to CM team as needed.
• Manage and maintain configuration control throughout all phases of the product life cycle, whether documentation, software, hardware etc.
• Support Program configuration control board functions: scheduling meetings; generating agendas, minutes, action item reminders; meeting facilitation and note/action item taking; updating electronic control boards with actions, assignees, status comments, due dates; following-up with assignees to drive on-time actions as needed
• Responsibilities include maintaining an overall configuration and the Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
• Maintain and update Configuration Management policies, procedures, and standards to align with CESOs policies.

Basic Qualifications

• BS degree and 12+ years of directly relevant experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Candidate must possess an active DOD TS/SCI level security clearance, and be eligible to obtain and maintain a w/CI Poly
• Experience managing software and hardware configuration in Jira. 
• Candidate will interact with military, other contractors, and U.S. Government personnel; therefore, requires excellent oral and written communication skills. 
• Candidate must possess an active DOD Top Secret/SCI level security clearance, and be eligible to obtain and maintain a CI/Poly
• IAT Level II Baseline Certification (e.g., CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP)
• Ability to translate highly technical matter to non-technical audience

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experienced with DISA and DISA’s support to mission partners
• Master’s degree in IT, or related field
   

Why Leidos?

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.