Change and Release Management Specialist

Job description

Responsibilities We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Change and Release Management Specialist to join our team in the greater DMV area, supporting the Army National Guard. Responsibilities: - Develop, maintain, and enforce Change & Release Design Documentation, Test Plans, and standards for hardware, software, and configuration changes across operational, test, and COOP environments. - Control RFC lifecycle: intake, impact analysis, scheduling, approval packaging, implementation coordination, validation, and closure. - Chair/support CAB/ECAB activities: perform engineering and security reviews, document risks, rollback plans, dependencies, and operational impacts; present recommendations for Government approval. - Produce transition‑to‑operations diagrams, configuration flow artifacts, runbooks, and implementation/rollback procedures to enable repeatable deployments and sustainment. - Integrate compliance and security engineering requirements into change packages (DISA STIGs, IAVM, RMF continuous monitoring, eMASS evidence). - Coordinate release scheduling and execution with NOC, Tier III, DISA, NETCOM, state/territory stakeholders, and external providers to synchronize...