Configuration Management, Senior Advisor

Configuration Management, Senior Advisor

Job Location s: US-VA-Herndon

Requisition :

Position Category:
Information Technology;
Clearance:
Public Trust

Join Peraton in advancing the safety, efficiency, and modernization of the National Airspace System (NAS) through the FAA's Business, National Airspace, and Technical Computing Services (BNATCS) contract. As a trusted partner to the Federal Aviation Administration, Peraton helps deliver the systems and services that keep our nation's skies safe and connected.

We’re looking for innovative professionals who thrive in mission‑critical environments and are passionate about shaping the future of air traffic management. This is your chance to make an impact on one of the world’s most vital transportation infrastructures, working alongside leaders in aviation, engineering, data science, and systems integration.

At Peraton, you won’t just support the mission – you’ll define it.

Peraton is seeking an experienced Configuration Management (CM) Engineer to lead the planning, implementation, and governance of configuration management across a large‑scale federal program. In Peraton’s role as a systems integrator, this position is critical to maintaining order and traceability across a complex landscape of custom‑developed, COTS, GOTS, and third‑party vendor components – each with its own development lifecycle, release cadence, and change velocity.

Configuration management in an integration environment is far more than version control. It is the discipline that ensures every system baseline is known, every change is evaluated for cross‑system impact, every deliverable is auditable, and every release into the operational environment is verified against an authoritative configuration. You will serve as the CM authority across the integrated program, working at the intersection of systems engineering, software development, test, and operations to ensure that configuration integrity is maintained from design through deployment and sustainment.

This role is based in Herndon, VA.

• Develop and maintain the Configuration Management Plan (CMP), defining CM policies, processes, roles, and tools across the integrated program – encompassing internal teams, subcontractors, and vendor deliverables
• Establish and enforce CM standards and procedures for configuration identification, change control, configuration status accounting, and configuration audits in accordance with EIA-649, MIL‑STD‑973, and agency‑specific CM requirements
• Define the configuration item (CI) hierarchy across the integrated system, identifying hardware, software, firmware, documentation, and interface CIs at appropriate levels of control
• Maintain the program baseline structure – functional, allocated, and product baselines – ensuring traceability from requirements through design, implementation, test, and deployment
• Administer the Configuration Control Board (CCB) process, preparing change requests, coordinating cross‑functional impact analyses, and documenting board decisions
• Lead cross‑system impact analysis for proposed changes, evaluating ripple effects across multi‑vendor integrated components, interfaces, data exchanges, and dependent systems – a discipline uniquely critical in an integrator environment
• Manage engineering change proposals (ECPs), waivers, deviations, and specification change notices across the integrated program
• Ensure that all changes to baselined configurations are formally evaluated, approved, implemented, verified, and recorded before release
• Maintain configuration status accounting (CSA) records that provide a complete, current, and auditable history of all configuration items, baselines, changes, and release states across the enterprise
• Plan and conduct functional configuration audits (FCAs) and physical configuration audits (PCAs) to verify that delivered systems match their approved configuration documentation
• Conduct CM audits of subcontractor and vendor deliverables to ensure compliance with program CM standards, contractual data requirements, and interface specifications
• Generate CM metrics and reports – change activity, baseline health, audit findings, open action…