Configuration Management Specialist

By Light Professional IT Services LLC readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide.

Position Overview

By Light Professional IT Services (By Light) are leading providers of innovative Information Technology (IT) services and communications support to the Department of Defense and Federal Agencies. By Light is looking for personnel to support a U.S. Army information technology infrastructure program. The project includes conducting survey and design, engineer, furnish, install, secure, and test (EFIS&T) solutions to include non-secure internet protocol router (NIPR), secure internet protocol router (SIPR), Wi-Fi, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Inside Plant (ISP), Outside Plant (OSP), and Voice Modernization at U.S. Army Base/Post/Camp/Station (B/P/C/S) across the Continental United States (CONUS).

By Light is looking for a Configuration Management Specialist to work within our team to implement configurations and change management solutions and provide support to the system engineering, software engineering, and testing teams. The Configuration Management Specialist will be responsible for configuration management activities, including product identification, change control, status accounting, operation of the program support library, and development and monitoring of equipment/system acceptance plans.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates, prepares, and conducts Configuration Control Boards, identify, monitor, and report on configuration
• Coordinates with users and systems development personnel on releases of both system-level software and applications software.
• Controls configuration baselines and interfaces through Engineering Change Proposal/Specification processing
• Able to help define and document emerging processes.
• Support development of Workflows, Build Notes, Release Notes, and Version Description Document
• Responsible for configuration management of requirements, design, and code.
• Manages Technical Data Packages from requirements collection to software deployment
• Monitors library structure and procedures to assure system integrity, including procedures for collection, release, production, test, and emergency libraries and the movement/migration of components between libraries.
• Monitors end item acceptance plans.
• Proven ability to liaise between programmers, designers, IT personnel and customers and other stakeholders
• Provides solutions supporting parallel development and facilitate product branching and merging activities
• Conducts configuration audits

Required Experience/Qualifications

• 3-7 years' of CM experience preferably in a software environment.
• Experience with JIRA and Subversion
• Possesses and applies expertise on multiple complex work assignments.
• Excellent writing skills

Preferred Experience/Qualifications

• Prior experience with Army Networks
• GitLab experience
• Confluence experience

Special Requirements/Security Clearance

• Active Secret Clearance