Avum is seeking a highly skilled Senior Configuration Management (CM) Lead to serve as the authoritative technical leader for configuration management operations, providing comprehensive baseline control for complex information systems. This role facilitates Configuration Control groups, orchestrates change management processes, and establishes robust CM frameworks for enterprise systems.

The position ensures all system modifications are meticulously documented, tested, and approved through proper Government channels, applying deep expertise in DoD standards, regulatory compliance, and complex system integration. The CM Lead provides guidance, oversight, and leadership to configuration management teams while promoting best practices and maintaining rigorous quality control across the system lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage configuration management operations, ensuring integrity and control of system baselines for complex information systems.
• Establish, implement, and maintain CM frameworks tailored to DoD contracting systems.
• Facilitate configuration control groups and oversee change management processes, ensuring all modifications are reviewed, approved, and properly documented.
• Develop and enforce CM policies, procedures, and standards aligned with DoD requirements and best practices.
• Provide leadership, mentorship, and technical guidance to a team of configuration management specialists.
• Conduct configuration audits, impact analyses, and compliance assessments to ensure system modifications meet operational and regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate with development, testing, and operations teams to ensure seamless system integration and baseline control.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation and reporting to support governance, compliance, and decision-making.

What You Will Need:

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• An active Top Secret security clearance is required.
• Minimum of ten (10) years of relevant experience in configuration management, including baseline control, change management, and system integration.
• Deep knowledge of configuration management standards (e.g., DoD 5015.2, MIL-STD-973) and lifecycle practices across hardware, software, and systems domains.
• Proven experience leading or supervising a team of configuration management specialists.
• Relevant certification from a nationally recognized technical authority (e.g., CMII, ITIL, PMI, or equivalent).
• A Bachelor's Degree in a technical or business discipline from an accredited college or university.
• Extensive experience supporting DoD or Federal contracting systems.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
• Excellent communication skills to liaise with technical teams, management, and Government stakeholders.

What’s In It For You:

• Receiving a competitive compensation and benefits package that includes bonuses and 401K with 6% matching that vests immediately.
• Joining a mission-driven, technically forward team.

Location:

This role is fully remote. The candidate must be available during core Eastern Standard Time (EST) hours, Monday through Friday, and may need to travel for occasional in-person meetings.

About Avum:

Avum, Inc. is a certified Small Disadvantaged Business who provides advanced software, database, and business intelligence systems to the DoD/Military, Intelligence Community, and Federal, State, Local, and Commercial clients since 1991. We manage technical programs and projects and provide strategic guidance to support our customers' system engineering efforts. We provide sustainment in mission-critical and secure environments. We support information assurance activities and accreditation for the systems we deploy. Our engineers conduct rapid prototyping and Agile customer-focused iterations to produce complex applications, predictive analytic data environments, and NIST SP 800-53 compliant system architecture deployed within Navy and DoD networks. We have subject matter experts in multiple domains and technical expertise across all core technology stacks. We specialize in application development, large-scale database design, data engineering, and data visualization. Through results-driven, agile collaboration, the company continually researches and deploys secure solutions that exceed customer expectations in meeting or beating customer-allocated budgets and schedules. We aspire to the highest standards of ethical behavior and professional integrity in providing our customers with service that consistently earns us the highest possible performance ratings.

Avum, Inc. does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other reason prohibited by law in providing employment opportunities and benefits.