Configuration Management Engineer Jobs in Illinois

Description

Leidos National Solutions has an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual to join our team delivering Geospatial solutions through system integration, operations, and sustainment support.  In this role, you will assist with standing up and contributing to testing, development, and operations of cloud and on-premise environments supporting mission critical operations for a government customer. This role will support a full range of configuration management activities, including requirements analysis, cost control methodologies, contract data requirements, and special projects that require high attention to detail and a very proactive attitude.

Primary Responsibilities

As a member of our team, you will manage the baselines of several mission systems located on multiple security domains enabling effective change management. You will identify and control configuration items defined in the Configuration Management Plan and engineering baselines.  You will provide other technical teams with configuration management guidance or advice and work closely with technical teams to improve service maturity, embed better ways of working and contribute to continuous improvement, with real opportunities to take ownership of configuration management initiatives.

• Own and maintain the Configuration Management Plan, procedures, work practices, and provide configuration management guidance across the team
• Establish, manage and assure the integrity of configuration management baselines, technical data lists, and baselines across service, software and engineering environments
• Plan, track and manage configuration and change activities
• Drive continuous improvement of configuration management processes and tools, working closely with technical and program stakeholders
• Manage development, interpretation, review, publication, and audit/enforcement of policies, standards, and guidance from both the customer organization and the program SMEs
• Other tasks as assigned

Basic Qualifications

• BS degree and 2 – 4 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with less than 2 years of prior relevant experience.
• Must possess an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and ability to obtain a Polygraph.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Proactive self-starter demonstrating a positive, willing attitude and possess excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to pay careful attention to detail 
• Capacity to work well in groups/teams
• Strong briefing skills and experience presenting to senior customer management

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous Configuration Management experience
• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Experience with cloud-based architectures
• Familiar with cross domain architectures at various levels
• Experience with automated testing and monitoring
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence
• Experience with SharePoint administration
• Experience with interpreting NGA Policies

Don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes – if you meet most of them, we encourage you to submit your application.  We’re most interested in your strengths, what you want to learn and how far you want to go. 

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.