Software Configuration Management Lead

Leidos is seeking a Configuration Management Lead to support the Global Solutions Management – Operations II program and its mission to design, develop, test, deliver, and sustain advanced operational capabilities for DISA and its mission partners. The selected candidate will serve as the program’s primary owner for configuration management, baseline control, deployment coordination, and release governance for a complex AWS IL5/IL6 system-of-systems environment. This role requires a combination of hands-on software engineering combined with a strong process leadership to coordinate across engineering, DevOps, test, cyber, infrastructure, operations, product management, customer stakeholders, and partner organizations to ensure that capabilities are delivered in a controlled, repeatable, secure, auditable, and mission-aligned manner. The program delivers and sustains a mission platform that collects, normalizes, correlates, enriches, visualizes, and operationalizes large volumes of network, cyber, performance, event, configuration, and operational data. The platform supports network situational awareness, event correlation, auto-ticketing, predictive analytics, automated troubleshooting, and future self-healing network capabilities. Key technologies and integrations include AWS IL5/IL6 environments, Elastic/Kibana, Confluent Kafka, Logstash, IBM Watson AIOps, Databricks, ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, CI/CD pipelines, network automation tooling, data simulators, AWS diode-based data transfer, and integrations with multiple network and cyber data sources. The Configuration Management Lead will ensure the program has disciplined control over software, infrastructure, data pipeline configurations, interface definitions, deployment packages, COTS/FOSS versions, environment baselines, security-relevant configurations, release artifacts, and operational documentation. The successful candidate will be able to translate complex technical delivery activity into a clear release management framework that supports customer confidence, operational stability, compliance, auditability, and mission outcomes. This position requires strong leadership, communication, organization, and stakeholder-management skills. The candidate must be comfortable facilitating release readiness reviews, configuration control boards, deployment planning meetings, risk discussions, customer briefings, and cross-team coordination across a geographically distributed team. The ideal candidate is a structured, proactive leader who can bring order to complex technical delivery activity. They are comfortable working across engineering and operations boundaries, asking hard readiness questions, documenting decisions, escalating risks early, and ensuring releases are delivered with discipline. This role may support partial telework or remote work depending on program direction, but the candidate must be able to support customer and program needs associated with Scott AFB, IL and/or Fort Meade, MD , including on-site meetings, classified environment access, release events, or customer engagements as required. Primary Responsibilities Lead the program’s end-to-end configuration management function across development, integration, test, staging, IL5, IL6, and production environments. Own and maintain the program’s Configuration Management Plan , release management procedures, baseline control processes, release governance model, artifact standards, change control workflows, and configuration status accounting practices. Establish and manage the program’s release calendar , release cadence, release readiness criteria, deployment windows, dependency tracking, cutover planning, rollback planning, and post-release validation activities. Coordinate release planning and execution across software engineering, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, data engineering, test, cybersecurity, information assurance, operations, network automation, service management, and customer stakeholder teams. Serve as the primary facilitator for release readiness reviews, configuration control boards, change advisory activities, go/no-go reviews, deployment planning sessions, and release retrospectives . Ensure that release packages are complete, reviewed, approved, documented, and traceable prior to deployment, including code baselines, infrastructure changes, configuration updates, test evidence, security scan results, operational impacts, deployment instructions, rollback plans, and release notes. Maintain traceability from requirements, epics, stories, defects, risks, and change requests through implementation, testing, approval, deployment, and operational acceptance using tools such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and related CI/CD or artifact repositories. Coordinate configuration control for software, scripts, data pipelines, dashboards, integrations, environment variables, deployment manifests, infrastructure-as-code artifacts, automation workflows, interface definitions, COTS/FOSS components, and operational runbooks. Ensure that configuration baselines are maintained for program environments, including non-production environments, data simulators, network automation test environments, IL5/IL6 deployment targets, and production operational capabilities. Partner with DevOps and engineering teams to ensure CI/CD pipelines support controlled promotion of builds through environments, including appropriate tagging, versioning, approval gates, automated testing, artifact retention, and deployment evidence. Work with cybersecurity and information assurance stakeholders to ensure releases comply with applicable DoD security expectations, STIG-related configuration requirements, privileged access controls, vulnerability remediation priorities, and audit evidence needs. Coordinate release impacts for mission-critical operational capabilities, including event processing, performance monitoring, cyber monitoring, dashboarding, auto-tick