Sr. Configuration Management Specialist

Spatial Front, Inc. (SFI), a two-time USA Today Top Workplaces awardee and Washington Top Workplaces honoree, is seeking a Configuration Management Specialist (CI/CD Pipeline Automation) to support our growing team. This position establishes, maintains, and optimizes configuration management processes, software version control practices, build/release management, and CI/CD pipeline automation across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Operating within a DevOps framework, this role bridges development, QA, cybersecurity, and operations teams to guarantee that all software artifacts, environments, and infrastructure configurations remain secure, traceable, compliant, and deployable. 

Work Location: Hybrid (mostly remote, with occasional need to be on-site)

Key Responsibilities

• Configuration Management & Version Control: Develop and enforce configuration management plans, policies, and software baselines; oversee software versioning, branching, merging, and tagging strategies while conducting regular status accounting and configuration audits.
• CI/CD Pipeline Automation: Design, implement, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines; embed automated quality gates and security scanning into workflows to maximize deployment reliability and release velocity.
• Release & Build Management: Coordinate software builds and deployments across multiple environments, manage artifact repositories, maintain comprehensive release documentation, and support disaster recovery/rollback procedures.
• Infrastructure Automation: Automate environment provisioning and maintain infrastructure configuration consistency across development, testing, staging, and production environments in collaboration with cloud infrastructure teams. 
• Governance, Compliance, & Collaboration: Support SDLC governance and security requirements; provide technical guidance, documentation, and training to cross-functional team members on configuration management and DevOps best practices. 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. 
• 7+ years in configuration management, DevOps, release engineering, or software engineering within enterprise environments.
• Proficient with Git-based version control systems alongside direct experience utilizing CI/CD platforms like GitLab CI/CD      and Jenkins.
• Practical knowledge of IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Competency in scripting languages (Python, PowerShell,  Bash) paired with a foundational familiarity with AWS cloud      platforms.
• Core comprehension of the SDLC, Agile, DevSecOps, change management, and automated test/security compliance frameworks.

Desired Skills

• Prior experience supporting government, defense, healthcare, or financial services industries.
• Expertise implementing secure software development practices and automated compliance controls for enterprise-scale cloud deployments.
• One or more of the following certifications: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer,  Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), GitHub Actions Certification, SAFe DevOps Practitioner / Certified ScrumMaster (CSM).

Additional Information

• Clearance: Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain one.
• Work Environment: Onsite/Hybrid as required by the contract and program environment.
• This is a full-time, W2 position.
• No agencies, third parties, or Corp-to-Corp submissions.
• Spatial Front Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer — all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status.
• SFI participates in E-Verify.