Configuration Manager

Configuration Manager

Meet Slingshot

At Slingshot Aerospace, we’re on a mission to make space safer and more secure for everyone. Our work directly impacts global security, disaster response, climate monitoring, and the critical infrastructure that connects our world. We’re a team of builders, thinkers, and problem-solvers who believe the next generation of space operations will be powered by better data, smarter software, and disciplined execution.

We move fast, we’re not afraid to fail, and we believe the best ideas can come from anywhere—whether you’re in engineering, product, security, operations, or program management. As we continue scaling our work across U.S. government and Space Force programs, we’re building the systems, processes, and technical rigor needed to operate as a trusted long-term defense partner.

If you want to help shape how a fast-moving aerospace company matures its engineering and program execution practices without losing its startup energy, you’re in the right place.

What You’ll Be Launching

As Slingshot’s Configuration Manager, you will help build our configuration management function from the ground up. This is Slingshot’s main dedicated Configuration Manager role, which means you will have the opportunity to define the playbook, stand up the processes, and help shape how configuration control scales across our programs.

You will start by supporting a priority government program, with the expectation that the role expands over time into a broader enterprise configuration management function. You’ll work across Engineering, Program Management, Product, DevSecOps, and Security/GRC to bring consistency, traceability, and discipline to how we identify, baseline, approve, document, and manage changes across software, infrastructure, cloud environments, DevSecOps pipelines, documentation, and program artifacts.

This role is not just about process for the sake of process. It is about helping Slingshot move fast in a way that is repeatable, auditable, secure, and ready for the expectations of DoD, Space Force, CUI, classified, and ATO-bound environments.

We’re looking for someone who can bring structure without slowing innovation, who can work comfortably with technical teams, and who is energized by building something that does not fully exist yet.

Your Mission — Should You Choose to Accept It

• Execute all position responsibilities in alignment with Slingshot’s core values, mission, and purpose.

• 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.

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