Configuration Manager

The Configuration Manager will facilitate the engineering teams build robust and stable systems through the establishment of a configuration management strategy, a configuration management plan, a clear set of configuration management processes (including version control) underpinned by a configuration management tool that will automatically manage and monitor updates to configuration data.

The Configuration Manager will have the ability and authority to ensure daily end-to-end delivery of Configuration Management services in accordance with the Configuration Management Plan across all engineering platforms - Development, Test, Performance, Staging and Production (inclusive of hardware, operating system, security and applications).

Responsibilities:

• Develop/Own the configuration management strategy
• Build a configuration management plan based upon the strategy and in timelines aligned to major programmes
• Establish a clear set configuration management policies/processes, track compliance and resolve / escalating any compliance issues
• Encode the agreed processes within the configuration management tool
• Establish the stable configuration baseline and version control processes so that the baseline can be re-established automatically in the event of a configuration error
• Adopt CI/CD techniques to automate deployment of code changes
• Manage the day to day activities of the process, including establishing priorities and work assignments
• Facilitate Configuration Management audits
• Reviews critical incident outage resolution results and responses and dispositions of failed changes due to CMS related issues
• Educate and mentor Engineering teams to encourage configuration management efforts
• Review and approves all changes to the CMS infrastructure/software where applicable
• Chair the Configuration Control Board (CCB) and enacts changes as directed
• Provides and approves all requirements, use cases, user stories, etc. in support of new or improving functionality of the CMS
• Reviews and approves all requests for administrator log on credentials / access rights to the CMS infrastructure
• Reviews and publishes configuration management reporting.

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