Senior Configuration Management Engineer

Onsite in herndon, VA

Our client seeks a Senior Configuration Management Engineer to lead and mature CM practices for a globally distributed mission system spanning enterprise infrastructure, cloud services, and networks. The role will define baselines, govern change control, and enforce traceability across CI/CD, VMware/vSphere, AWS, and network configurations. The engineer will drive auditability and deployment repeatability while coordinating with security for compliant, hardened baselines.

Due to federal security clearance requirements, applicant must be a United States Citizen with an active Secret clearance. This is a full-time, permanent opportunity, offering a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Qualified applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis.

Salary: $150,000 - $200,000/ yr. w2

• Serve as the CM technical lead responsible for strategy, governance, and execution across infrastructure, application, and network domains.
• Define and maintain configuration baselines for hardware, software, firmware, cloud resources, and documentation across development, test, staging, production, and lab environments.
• Establish and operate the CM lifecycle, including baseline creation, change requests, implementation, verification, and release documentation.
• Own CM practices for GitLab-based CI/CD pipelines, ensuring traceability from requirements to deployments.
• Baseline and control configurations for VMware/vSphere and AWS environments, driving adoption of Infrastructure as Code.
• Define CM standards and processes for network devices and services, including routing, VPNs, firewalls, and switching.
• Operate change control workflows, including impact analysis, technical reviews, and post-change verification.
• Perform periodic configuration audits, identify discrepancies, and drive corrective actions.
• Maintain controlled updates for documentation, including diagrams, as-built configurations, and version inventories.
• Coordinate with Security to ensure baselines align with compliance requirements, including hardening, logging, and access control.

• Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance.
• Proven expertise in configuration management across infrastructure, cloud, network, and CI/CD domains.
• Strong knowledge of CM tools and practices, including GitLab-based CI/CD pipelines, VMware/vSphere, and AWS environments.
• 10-15 years of experience in configuration management, systems engineering, or a related role.
• Ability to travel internationally up to 10%.
• Must possess an active Passport or obtain one immediately upon hire.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools and scripting languages such as Python or Bash (preferred).
• Familiarity with network configuration management tools and practices (preferred).
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills (preferred).
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment (preferred).
• Experience with compliance requirements for security, logging, and access control (preferred).

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• AWS certification (preferred).

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Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients’ capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

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