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.
- 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.
Bonus Cargo
- 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.
Location
Remote, U.S.
Colorado Springs, CO preferred.
Salary Range: $120,000 - $170,000
Classification
Full-time, permanent position.
Closing Statement
We’re building a constellation here, not looking for identical satellites. Every member of the team brings different capabilities to the same mission. If your orbit intersects with ours and you’re mission-ready, send it.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion are key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds who share a passion for creating a safer, more connected world. Diversity includes race and gender identity, as well as national origin, citizenship, sex, color, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic that is part of one’s identity. All of our employees’ points of view are key to our success, and we embrace individuality.
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Internationally-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following locations: United Kingdom. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other countries at this time.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion are key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who share a passion for creating a safer, more connected world. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also national origin, citizenship, sex, color, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic that is part of one’s identity. All of our employees’ points of view are key to our success, and we embrace individuality.
