Senior Configuration Management Engineer

Onsite in Herndon, VA

Our client seeks a Senior Configuration Management Engineer to lead and mature CM practices for a globally distributed mission system spanning enterprise infrastructure, cloud services, and networks. The role will define baselines, govern change control, and enforce traceability across CI/CD, VMware/vSphere, AWS, and network configurations. The engineer will drive auditability and deployment repeatability while coordinating with security for compliant, hardened baselines.

Due to federal security clearance requirements, applicant must be a United States Citizen with an active Secret clearance. This is a full-time, permanent opportunity, offering a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Qualified applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis.

Salary: $150,000 - $200,000/ yr. w2

Responsibilities

• Serve as the CM technical lead responsible for strategy, governance, and execution across infrastructure, application, and network domains.
• Define and maintain configuration baselines for hardware, software, firmware, cloud resources, and documentation across development, test, staging, production, and lab environments.
• Establish and operate the CM lifecycle, including baseline creation, change requests, implementation, verification, and release documentation.
• Own CM practices for GitLab-based CI/CD pipelines, ensuring traceability from requirements to deployments.
• Baseline and control configurations for VMware/vSphere and AWS environments, driving adoption of Infrastructure as Code.
• Define CM standards and processes for network devices and services, including routing, VPNs, firewalls, and switching.
• Operate change control workflows, including impact analysis, technical reviews, and post-change verification.
• Perform periodic configuration audits, identify discrepancies, and drive corrective actions.
• Maintain controlled updates for documentation, including diagrams, as-built configurations, and version inventories.
• Coordinate with Security to ensure baselines align with compliance requirements, including hardening, logging, and access control.

Experience Requirements

• Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance.
• Proven expertise in configuration management across infrastructure, cloud, network, and CI/CD domains.
• Strong knowledge of CM tools and practices, including GitLab-based CI/CD pipelines, VMware/vSphere, and AWS environments.
• 10-15 years of experience in configuration management, systems engineering, or a related role.
• Ability to travel internationally up to 10%.
• Must possess an active Passport or obtain one immediately upon hire.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools and scripting languages such as Python or Bash (preferred).
• Familiarity with network configuration management tools and practices (preferred).
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills (preferred).
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment (preferred).
• Experience with compliance requirements for security, logging, and access control (preferred).

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• AWS certification (preferred).