Configuration Manager

Role Overview

• Execute all position responsibilities in alignment with Slingshot’s core values, mission, and purpose.
• Serve as Slingshot’s first dedicated Configuration Manager, helping build a scalable configuration management function for software, infrastructure, cloud, DevSecOps, documentation, and program artifacts.
• Partner with Engineering, Program Management, Product, DevSecOps, and Security/GRC to develop and maintain a Configuration Management Plan that supports current program needs and future enterprise growth.
• Stand up, operate, and mature a phased Configuration Control Board process, starting with one priority program and expanding toward a broader enterprise or federated model over time.
• Own and maintain standard templates and workflows for change requests, impact analysis, approvals, change records, configuration status accounting, and configuration audits.
• Establish and maintain configuration baselines for key systems, services, applications, infrastructure, environments, documentation, and other controlled artifacts.
• Facilitate CCB meetings, drive decisions, document outcomes, and ensure approved changes are traceable, communicated, and reflected in the appropriate systems of record.
• Help define CCB membership, decision rights, escalation paths, and emergency change processes in partnership with Engineering, Product, DevSecOps, Program Management, and Security/GRC stakeholders.
• Work closely with technical teams to ensure configuration management integrates cleanly with Git-based workflows, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, cloud environments, release processes, and documentation practices.
• Support configuration management evidence needs for CUI, classified, CMMC, NIST, RMF, and ATO-related activities.
• Serve as a named configuration management point of contact for relevant government programs, reviews, audits, and authorization efforts.
• Help evaluate and implement tooling or systems of record for configuration items, baselines, change records, approvals, and audit evidence.
• Create practical, right-sized processes that preserve team agility while improving consistency, traceability, and audit readiness.
• Partner with Security/GRC and Engineering teams to align configuration management practices with NIST SP 800-171, CMMC 2.0, NIST SP 800-53, NIST CSF, and other relevant government or industry expectations.
• Support operational and programmatic visibility by improving the traceability between changes, releases, incidents, defects, baselines, and documentation.
• Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating configuration management expectations into actionable workflows for teams across Slingshot.

Requirements

• 4+ years of relevant experience in configuration management, change management, release management, DevSecOps governance, technical program operations, systems engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting software, cloud, infrastructure, DevSecOps, or technical product environments.
• Experience operating or supporting Configuration Control Boards, change advisory boards, release governance, or similar technical change control processes.
• Working knowledge of configuration identification, baselines, change control, status accounting, and configuration audits.
• Hands-on experience with Git-based workflows and tools such as GitHub or GitLab.
• Experience using Jira and Confluence to manage work, documentation, approvals, or program artifacts.
• Technical fluency with CI/CD concepts, release pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, cloud environments, version control, and software delivery lifecycle practices.
• Familiarity with NIST SP 800-171 or similar security/configuration management expectations for controlled environments.
• Ability to work across Engineering, Product, DevSecOps, Security/GRC, and Program Management teams to build alignment and drive decisions.
• Strong written communication skills, including the ability to create clear process documentation, templates, meeting records, change records, and audit-ready evidence.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building processes from scratch in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Ability to balance rigor with pragmatism, creating processes that are clear, lightweight, enforceable, and scalable.
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.

Tech Stack

• Cloud

Benefits

• Active or Prior Top Secret or TS/SCI clearance required.