Senior Systems Engineer – Cloud Change & Configuration Management

Objective Area Solutions (OAS) is hiring a Senior Systems Engineer to support the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The role coordinates cloud infrastructure and application changes across development, test, staging, and production, managing the change lifecycle while maintaining operational reliability and compliance.

Responsibilities:

• Plan, coordinate, and execute cloud infrastructure and application changes across development, test, staging, and production environments
• Manage the end-to-end change lifecycle, including change identification, impact assessment, technical review, approval, implementation, validation, and closure
• Develop and maintain standardized cloud change-management processes, procedures, templates, workflows, and technical documentation
• Evaluate proposed changes for technical dependencies, operational impacts, security implications, resource requirements, and potential mission impact
• Coordinate cloud changes across Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Cybersecurity, Network Engineering, Application Development, Operations, and FAA program stakeholders
• Work with technical and program stakeholders to ensure changes are properly evaluated, documented, scheduled, communicated, and executed
• Help ensure cloud implementations support operational reliability while minimizing impacts to mission-critical services
• Support Change Configuration Board (CCB) activities by preparing technical change packages, risk assessments, implementation plans, test results, rollback plans, and supporting documentation
• Present and coordinate technical information necessary to support change review and approval activities
• Ensure proposed changes are appropriately documented and ready for implementation
• Develop detailed implementation, validation, and back-out/rollback plans for complex cloud changes
• Establish and maintain change windows and coordinate implementation activities to minimize disruption to mission-critical systems
• Monitor and validate changes following implementation to ensure systems, applications, security controls, and integrations remain operational
• Support effective issue resolution and rollback activities when changes do not perform as expected
• Ensure changes comply with FAA policies, enterprise architecture standards, cybersecurity requirements, configuration management processes, and applicable federal regulations
• Maintain accurate technical documentation and supporting change-management artifacts throughout the change lifecycle
• Promote disciplined engineering and configuration-management practices across cloud environments

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree
• 11+ years of relevant systems engineering experience
• Demonstrated experience applying comprehensive systems-engineering principles across analysis, planning, design, development, implementation, testing, and evaluation activities
• Experience supporting system integration, configuration management, technical change control, or related engineering activities
• Experience developing technical documentation such as change packages, implementation plans, test results, risk assessments, and rollback plans
• Experience evaluating technical dependencies, operational impacts, security considerations, and implementation risks
• Ability to coordinate technical activities across engineering, development, cybersecurity, network, operations, and program stakeholders
• Strong analytical, technical documentation, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to support a Public Trust position
• AWS certification or other relevant cloud certification
• Previous government contracting experience
• Previous experience supporting the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is highly desirable
• Experience working with large-scale cloud infrastructure or mission-critical systems
• Experience supporting formal Change Configuration Board (CCB) or comparable enterprise change-control processes
• Experience coordinating technical changes involving Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Cybersecurity, Network Engineering, Application Development, and Operations teams