Configuration Manager - Military veterans preferred

Description

JOB DESCRIPTION:

 

SAIC is currently looking to hire a Configuration Manager interested in joining our team in Omaha, NE.

 

Responsibilities Include:

• Support software configuration management requirements for mission critical software development projects that support U.S. Air Force Weather capabilities.
• Work with 3 to 6 scrum teams to manage and support software deployments of approximately 20 distinct software products.
• Responsible for maintaining deployment schedules, producing technical implementation documentation and working directly with technical teams to coordinate personnel to support software deployments.
• Interface with federal configuration control managers and review boards to explain, in detail, technical implementation plans for new software constructed by the development teams.

Qualifications

REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & CERTIFICATIONS:

 

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent and 5 years experience.

US citizenship required

 

Required Skills:

• Experience supporting software production process by authoring implementation plans, participating in change management review meetings and preparing for SELC milestone gates.
• Ensure that configuration management policy, practices, and standards are fully enforced and implemented across the Program.
• Ability to create and maintain Configuration Management policies; ability to write communications and documentation that explain complex technical information in plain language.
• Maintain the integrity of work product configuration items throughout their life cycle. Our configuration items include the hardware, software, firmware, and documentation components of U.S. Air Force systems.
• Make sure all documentation is to a level of detail sufficient to reproduce the system changes needed for operation, maintenance, repair and replacement.
• Understanding of Linux and Windows servers, relational databases, web application development, programming languages and the software development process.
• Must have excellent written and verbal communications skills and ability to work within a team environment.
• Experience in creating and maintaining the Project Configuration Management Plan.
• Knowledge of industry recognized configuration models such as ITIL, CMMI and/or ISO; experience and ability to implement lifecycle CM processes and procedures in an IT environment.
• Experience with automated version management and tracking tools such as PVCS Dimensions, Jira and GIT.
• Experience working within an Agile (Scrum) software development environment.
• Strong experience with Microsoft tools including Microsoft Visio, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Strong customer engagement skills, comfortable communicating with product owner and ability to manage client relationship and expectations.
• Candidate must be able to favorably pass government background investigation.

Desired Qualifications