Configuration Manager/Specialist

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: On-site in Arlington, VA

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.