Configuration Manager

The Air Force Civil Engineer (AFCEC) community has identified the cybersecurity of Civil Engineer (CE) Control Systems as essential in securing the infrastructure at Department of the Air Force (DAF) installations. The AFCEC Operations Directorate (AFCEC/CO) is tasked to support securing this infrastructure by contracting for cybersecurity service capabilities on behalf of the CE enterprise. AFCEC manages cyber risk; and identifies, mitigates, monitors, and predicts cyber vulnerabilities related to CE Control Systems worldwide. By Light is looking for candidates to provide technical leadership of the Configuration Management (CM) organizational processes and be responsible for the overall program configuration management systems to include quality & data management, technical configuration management and policy, process and audits. The ideal candidate will have recent, comprehensive experience in developing complex technical solutions and leading cybersecurity integration efforts for system configuration management with a background in traditional configuration management processes.

• Provide configuration management analysis and planning on proposed changes of product designs and systems.
• Maintain configuration management files including configuration identification, change control, and status accounting records of all relevant program artifacts.
• Coordinate hardware/software installation and tracking, baseline, and mission software upgrades, maintain and manage mission network servers, and communication modules. 
• Ensure all production and engineering development drawings and documents are properly logged into the data repositories prior to product delivery.
• Responsible for all CM activities across the program including software, hardware, system/node configurations as well as assist with logistics/asset management and data management processes.
• Ensures that documented information is available and suitable in accordance with the PWS.
• Prepares agendas for and conducts configuration audits to validate the contents of CM libraries ensures audits are brought to closure.
• Participate in cross-functional change control boards to evaluate proposed changes.
• Responsible for developing top-down master Configuration Management Database that accurately defines configuration baselines for systems on the operational network.
• Support and assist in maintaining Life-Cycle Replacement Plan detailing needed and recommended equipment, software, hardware, information security for each year.
• Work with information security and support personnel to ensure patching activities are well coordinated with ongoing configuration management support installs of equipment based on determined plans. 
• Assist in maintaining automated inventory tracking system on all baseline and mission systems and equipment to help determine replacement plan base on replacements, repairs, workload for the software/hardware supported.
• Install and maintain mission software/firmware product baseline including license types, license keys, and quantities used/remaining.
• Install and test all baseline acquired hardware/software for incorporation into the current system configuration.
• Monitor mission related network services for availability and reliability conditions, enabling the identification and repair of degrading hardware situations and execution of any hardware/software corrections before the situations causes outages.
• Draft, provide, and conduct information briefs, progress reviews, and other status reports as required.
• Perform other duties as required to support configuration management activities.

• Bachelors’ degree
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience executing CM support.
• IAT Level III Certification
• Strong knowledge of high-availability, load-balancing and failover configurations across application, infrastructure, and platform components
• Strong organization skills applied to data management
• Experience curating SharePoint sites for dissemination of data to the customer
• Experience developing and maintaining SharePoint pages
• IAT Level II Certification

• Supported the U.S. Air Force or other DoD/Federal Agency.
• Has the communication skills to effectively interface with senior military officials, managers, and subordinates.
• Experience with a dashboard tool such as Tableau or Kibana

• Security Clearance: Secret