Configuration Manager

Location: Ellsworth Air Force Base

Configuration Manager - South DakotaDAF Financial Management (FM) Enterprise Cybersecurity and Systems/FMWorkFlow Engineering Support

Position Overview The Configuration Manager supports daily program operations and provides configuration governance, technical baseline control, quality control, technical-document management, engineering-change coordination, deliverable tracking, and performance reporting for the DAF FM Enterprise Cybersecurity and FMWorkFlow (FMWF) engineering-support mission. The position supports the Program Manager and may act for the Program Manager when designated. The role helps ensure configuration integrity, change-control discipline, technical traceability, quality of deliverables, and alignment with Government QASP objectives.

General Professional Requirements Operate effectively in a mission-critical financial-system environment requiring high availability, configuration integrity, and compliance with Air Force cybersecurity mandates.

Communicate effectively with SAF/FM, AFIMSC, AFFSO, Government customers, system owners, program offices, engineers, database personnel, system administrators, cybersecurity personnel, and senior leadership.

Prepare accurate, timely, controlled, and Section 508-compliant documentation and deliverables.

Comply with military-installation rules, physical-security procedures, Government-resource restrictions, consent-to-monitoring requirements, and applicable access-control procedures.

Protect Government information and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in accordance with applicable PWS requirements, including NIST SP 800-122 and the Privacy Act.

Immediately report known or suspected security violations or incidents through required channels and assist Government security-related inquiries or investigations as directed.

Recommended Experience Minimum eight years of progressively responsible IT, engineering, cybersecurity, quality, or configuration-management experience.

At least three years supporting Federal or DoD technical programs.

At least three years managing configuration baselines, change controls, quality controls, schedules, risks, technical documentation, releases, or technical deliverables.

Demonstrated experience coordinating configuration/change activities across infrastructure, database, cybersecurity, systems administration, and development/test functions.

Experience supporting configuration audits, engineering reviews, release readiness, corrective-action tracking, and post-deployment validation is strongly preferred.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities Maintain the configuration-management framework, configuration records, and approved technical baselines for applicable FMWF environments and assets.

Coordinate engineering-change packages and maintain end-to-end traceability from change request and impact analysis through approval, implementation, testing, validation, documentation, and baseline update.

Coordinate, document, track, and validate configuration changes associated with enterprise patches, updates, enhancements, system modifications, IAVAs, TCNOs, NOTAMs, and related mission or security directives.

Track and verify implementation of IAVA, TCNO, and related directives within prescribed timelines.

Maintain configuration-management controls for development and test assets, including controlled configuration states, patch validation, release controls, and configuration documentation.

Support engineering validation of patches, updates, enhancements, and system modifications before production release and verify production readiness prior to deployment.

Conduct or coordinate configuration audits and post-deployment reviews to verify approved implementation, documentation accuracy, configuration baseline integrity, and technical performance following configuration changes.

Support configuration-related root-cause analysis for discrepancies, failed changes, audit findings, baseline deviations, or performance degradation; track corrective actions through validated closure.

Coordinate configuration, release, change-control, and quality activities across infrastructure, database, cybersecurity, systems administration, development/test, and program-management functions.

Support configuration management, documentation, baseline control, and change tracking associated with Continuity of Operations (COOP) testing and deployment activities.

Support implementation and short-term sustainment of newly deployed capabilities by ensuring changes, baselines, records, and validation results are properly controlled and documented.

Maintain document naming conventions, controlled repositories, version control, approval records, audit traceability, and technical-document governance.

Support the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), risk register, resource/staffing planning, action-item log, workload coordination, and deliverable schedule.

Develop, maintain, and update the contractor's Quality Control Plan (QCP) and define measurable quality-control metrics aligned with…