Senior Configuration Management Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Configuration Management Engineer role is onsite in Herndon, VA, with a stated salary of $150,000–$200,000 per year. Eliassen Group describes itself as a strategic consulting firm providing technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. The engineer leads configuration management practices for a globally distributed mission system spanning infrastructure, cloud services, and networks. The role establishes baselines, governs change control, and maintains traceability and repeatable deployments while coordinating with security on compliant configurations.

What you'll do

• Lead configuration management strategy and execution across infrastructure, applications, and networks
• define and maintain hardware, software, firmware, cloud, and documentation baselines
• operate the CM lifecycle and change control
• manage CM practices for GitLab CI/CD
• baseline VMware/vSphere and AWS environments
• define network configuration standards
• conduct audits and corrective actions
• maintain controlled documentation
• coordinate with security on compliance, hardening, logging, and access control.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior configuration management engineer

herndon va

eliassen group

configuration management

gitlab ci/cd

vmware

aws

infrastructure as code

network configuration

secret clearance

$150k–$200k

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Medical, dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, voluntary life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time where required by law for eligible employees.

Why this role

Active Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship are stated requirements; the posting also lists active Top Secret/SCI clearance in its experience requirements. International travel up to 10% is required.

About the employer

Eliassen Group is hiring for this role. Industry: Engineering Services. Sector: 54.