• Establish, maintain, and enforce Configuration Management (CM) policies, plans, and SOPs across the SDLC. • Ensure configuration item (CI) identification, version control, baselining, and traceability across environments. • Maintain audit-ready CM repositories supporting CMMI Level 3, FedRAMP, FISMA, and VA compliance requirements. • Author and maintain CM Plans, change records, release documentation, and system inventories. • Plan, coordinate, and execute routine and emergency releases with full rollback and contingency readiness. • Manage integrated release calendars across multiple teams and environments (Dev, Test, Staging, Production). • Partner with DevOps and QA to align CI/CD pipelines, ensuring release consistency, integrity, and approval workflows. • Lead release readiness reviews and post-release retrospectives to drive continuous improvement. • Ensure secure integration of configuration management practices within CI/CD pipelines. • Coordinate version control, branching strategies, and artifact management across tools such as Bitbucket and JIRA. • Enforce change control and release gating aligned with security and compliance requirements. • Serve as the central coordination point between Product, Engineering, QA, Security, and Operations. • Provide clear communication to stakeholders on release status, risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans. • Mentor teams on CM best practices within Agile and SAFe delivery models. • Administer and optimize JIRA and Confluence for release tracking, reporting, and transparency.