Configuration Manager/Specialist

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Job Type

Full-time

Description

Spatial Front, Inc. (SFI)- is seeking a Configuration Manager/Specialist to support our growing team. SFI was recently awarded the 2026 USA Today National Top Places to Work award and the 2026 Washington Post Top Workplaces. The ideal candidate will support configuration management, migration control, and deployment readiness activities across a complex PeopleSoft platform in a federal environment. This role focuses on managing configuration items and migration packages, governing environment promotion activities, and using PHIRE and related processes to move approved changes safely into test and production environments. The ideal candidate will work closely with the Release Manager and coordinate with developers, testers, PeopleSoft administrators, infrastructure teams, database teams, and operations partners to ensure changes are complete, traceable, properly approved, and ready for release.

Work Location: Hybrid (on-site in Arlington, VA as scheduled, remaining days remote)

Key Responsibilities

• Manage configuration management activities for PeopleSoft HCM and related enterprise systems across development, test, staging, and production environments, with strong focus on PHIRE-driven migrations, deployment controls, and configuration traceability.
• Build, review, and maintain migration packages, version inventories, compare results, approval records, deployment checklists, and supporting documentation to ensure controlled movement of changes across environments.
• Work closely with the Release Manager to align configuration management activities with release calendars, cutover plans, readiness milestones, change windows, and deployment governance across multiple teams or ARTs.
• Validate that application objects, configurations, security changes, interfaces, reports, and supporting components included in migration packages are complete, properly documented, approved, and aligned with technical and operational standards.
• Coordinate environment promotion, migration sequencing, approvals, backup and rollback planning, and post-deployment validation activities with development, testing, infrastructure, database, security, and operations teams.
• Support scheduled releases, emergency fixes, and production deployments by preparing migration content, participating in deployment activities, monitoring for issues, and assisting with remediation, restart, rollback, or recovery actions when needed.
• Maintain configuration management baselines, migration logs, environment status records, SOPs, runbooks, and audit artifacts; support change control, release reporting, and continuous improvement of migration and deployment practices.
• Enforce configuration management standards, naming conventions, segregation of duties, documentation requirements, and secure deployment practices to reduce release risk and improve auditability, repeatability, and production stability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• 5+ years of experience in configuration management, migration management, release support, deployment coordination, or environment promotion for enterprise applications; experience supporting PeopleSoft HCM or similar ERP platforms preferred.
• Hands-on experience with PHIRE or a comparable configuration management and migration tool supporting PeopleSoft or enterprise ERP environments, including package preparation, compare analysis, approvals, migration tracking, and deployment support.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, migration path management, environment promotion strategies, release readiness, rollback planning, change control, and production deployment practices; experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar work tracking tools preferred.
• Experience working closely with release managers, developers, testers, PeopleSoft administrators, infrastructure teams, database teams, and operations personnel to move changes across environments safely, accurately, and with full traceability
• Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain one.

Desired Skills

• Familiarity with PeopleSoft HCM objects, PeopleTools changes, tax and regulatory updates, PUM image adoption, security migrations, interfaces, reports, and the operational considerations of moving enterprise ERP changes into production.
• Experience supporting federal, DoD, or other highly regulated environments where auditability, change governance, security controls, and segregation of duties are essential to release and migration success.
• Knowledge of PHIRE best practices, migration templates, approval workflows, compare and remediation processes, release packaging, deployment validation, and documentation standards that improve release quality and reduce migration errors.
• Ability to communicate clearly with release managers, client stakeholders, developers, testers, and operations teams regarding migration content, readiness, risks, dependencies, approvals, and post-deployment status.

Additional Information

• Clearance: Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain one.
• Work Environment: Onsite/Hybrid as required by the contract and program environment.
• This is a full-time, W2 position.
• No agencies, third parties, or Corp-to-Corp submissions.
• Spatial Front Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer - all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status.
• SFI participates in E-Verify.

Salary Description

$80,000 - $140,000