USAF - Configuration Manager

cFocus Software seeks a Configuration Manager to join our program supporting the United States Air Force. This position is onsite with the onsite location being in Ellsworth, South Dakota. This position requires a TS/SCI SSBI clearance., * 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.

• 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.

Invitation for Job Applicants to Self-Identify as a U.S. Veteran

• A "disabled veteran" is one of the following:

• a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or
• a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.

• A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.
• An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.
• An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.