Slingshot Aerospace - Configuration Manager

• Serve as Slingshot’s first dedicated Configuration Manager, helping build a scalable configuration management function for software, infrastructure, cloud, DevSecOps, documentation, and program artifacts. • Partner with Engineering, Program Management, Product, DevSecOps, and Security/GRC to develop and maintain a Configuration Management Plan that supports current program needs and future enterprise growth. • Stand up, operate, and mature a phased Configuration Control Board process, starting with one priority program and expanding toward a broader enterprise or federated model over time. • Own and maintain standard templates and workflows for change requests, impact analysis, approvals, change records, configuration status accounting, and configuration audits. • Establish and maintain configuration baselines for key systems, services, applications, infrastructure, environments, documentation, and other controlled artifacts. • Facilitate CCB meetings, drive decisions, document outcomes, and ensure approved changes are traceable, communicated, and reflected in the appropriate systems of record. • Help define CCB membership, decision rights, escalation paths, and emergency change processes in partnership with Engineering, Product, DevSecOps, Program Management, and Security/GRC stakeholders. • Work closely with technical teams to ensure configuration management integrates cleanly with Git-based workflows, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, cloud environments, release processes, and documentation practices. • Support configuration management evidence needs for CUI, classified, CMMC, NIST, RMF, and ATO-related activities. • Serve as a named configuration management point of contact for relevant government programs, reviews, audits, and authorization efforts. • Help evaluate and implement tooling or systems of record for configuration items, baselines, change records, approvals, and audit evidence. • Create practical, right-sized processes that preserve team agility while improving consistency, traceability, and audit readiness. • Partner with Security/GRC and Engineering teams to align configuration management practices with NIST SP 800-171, CMMC 2.0, NIST SP 800-53, NIST CSF, and other relevant government or industry expectations. • Support operational and programmatic visibility by improving the traceability between changes, releases, incidents, defects, baselines, and documentation. • Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating configuration management expectations into actionable workflows for teams across Slingshot. • Pre-flight Checklist • Active or Prior Top Secret or TS/SCI clearance required. • 4+ years of relevant experience in configuration management, change management, release management, DevSecOps governance, technical program operations, systems engineering, or a related discipline. • Experience supporting software, cloud, infrastructure, DevSecOps, or technical product environments. • Experience operating or supporting Configuration Control Boards, change advisory boards, release governance, or similar technical change control processes. • Working knowledge of configuration identification, baselines, change control, status accounting, and configuration audits. • Hands-on experience with Git-based workflows and tools such as GitHub or GitLab. • Experience using Jira and Confluence to manage work, documentation, approvals, or program artifacts. • Technical fluency with CI/CD concepts, release pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, cloud environments, version control, and software delivery lifecycle practices. • Familiarity with NIST SP 800-171 or similar security/configuration management expectations for controlled environments. • Ability to work across Engineering, Product, DevSecOps, Security/GRC, and Program Management teams to build alignment and drive decisions. • Strong written communication skills, including the ability to create clear process documentation, templates, meeting records, change records, and audit-ready evidence. • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building processes from scratch in a fast-moving startup environment. • Ability to balance rigor with pragmatism, creating processes that are clear, lightweight, enforceable, and scalable. • Ability to travel up to 10% of the time. • Experience supporting DoD, Space Force, aerospace, defense, intelligence, or other highly regulated technical environments. • Experience supporting CUI or classified systems. • Experience contributing to RMF, ATO, continuous monitoring, or security authorization packages. • Familiarity with CMMC 2.0 Level 2, NIST SP 800-53, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, or FedRAMP-aligned environments. • Familiarity with government or industry configuration management standards such as MIL-HDBK-61B, SAE/EIA-649, or related aerospace/defense CM practices. • Experience helping an organization mature from ad hoc or team-level change control into a unified configuration management model. • Experience implementing or improving a system of record for configuration items, baselines, change requests, approvals, and change history. • Experience working closely with ISSMs, ISSOs, cybersecurity teams, GRC teams, DevSecOps engineers, systems engineers, or program managers. • Experience with cloud-based products, distributed systems, software platforms, mission systems, or operationally deployed technical environments. • Experience in a startup, scale-up, or high-growth technology organization. • Ability to build trust with engineering teams by understanding the technical realities of software delivery while still enforcing disciplined change control. • Colorado Springs, CO preferred.