Leidos Dig Mod Health IT division is seeking a Change/Configuration Manager on a large network services opportunity supporting the Health Agency in Montgomery County, MD. This opportunity will support the very important mission of National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Information Technology (CIT), which provide enterprise services and infrastructure that seek to achieve service-level performance efficiencies, innovative improvements, optimal performance and risk reductions.

We need key personnel hires with a deep knowledge networks expertise and complexity and tech roadmap experience to contribute to the trusted NIH and Leidos partnership. Looking for experience candidates that can maintain stable operations while delivering innovation, automation, leadership, network security and performance support/metrics, operations and continual improvement to advance the NIH scientific mission.

This program consists of network operations, architecture and engineering support, security engineering, change management, special application deliveries

Change/Configuration Manager (CM) will be responsible for bringing all infrastructure changes under the control of a single set of processes. He/she will seek to establish a stable environment and to maximize the benefits of change while minimizing the risks. The CM will facilitate and coordinate change management in accordance with agency’s CM Process. The CM will support the configuration management and change management operational needs of the agency’s Network Services Program. The Change Management lead will have the responsibility to ensure categorization and criteria of required operational changes and the management and tracking of all change activity. The responsibilities include but is not limited to the management of the SLAs associated with change authorization, change schedules, and organizational change management. Scope also includes completion and timely submission of Customer deliverables, creation of Customer briefs for status and regular meetings such as the Change Advisory Board and Technical Review Boards. This role will interface across the program ensuring support of the technical roadmap interfacing with Network Operations as well as the architecture engineering group.

Primary Responsibilities:

Provide on-site support to the health agency in MD.

Facilitate Change Advisory Board (CAB) Meetings, as well as managing and orchestrating the full lifecycle of change request

Review all planned changes to ensure that they are complete, accurate, and have no potential conflict

Support discussion of proposed changes in Technical Review Board (TRB) meetings with input from the Change Owner, Security and other technical lead

Record TRB decisions and distribute meeting minute

Post change requests to the agenda for CAB approval

Communication and socialization of change requests with both internal teams and the customer

Strong communication skills and relationship management

Strong writing and organization skills

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or other related discipline or equivalent related experience in lieu of degree

Five (5) years of change management experience

Experience with ServiceNow or other ITSM tool

Experience with applying ITIL standards for change management

Experience updating and maintaining change management plans

Must have strong oral and verbal communication skills

Ability to coordinate with both internal and customer teams

Must be able to thoroughly develop and maintain formal change management processes

Must be able to obtain a public trust security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP) certification

Experience with the Enterprise Performance Life Cycle framework

Active ITIL 4 certification, Six Sigma certification strongly desired

CISSP, CCIE, CCNP 

Operational experience with environments employing cloud or software-defined networking 

Operational experience using ScienceLogic SL1 

Demonstrated experience implementing successful continuous process improvement within an IT infrastructure environment 

Experience using ServiceNow Project Portfolio Management

Original Posting Date:2024-11-13

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:Pay Range $68,900.00 - $124,550.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.