Configuration Management Jobs
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information management configuration management jobs and want some
practical suggestions about responsibilities, qualifications and
salaries?
What is configuration
management?
Configuration management is a set of
processes and procedures required to ensure that
all hardware and software components in production environments are
clearly identified and are not modified without some authorized process.
For information management purposes configuration management applies to
all
of the software code, documentation, test results and other
deliverables that are produced during an information management project.
Who is involved with configuration management jobs?
Information management architects are responsible for creating an
enterprise configuration management plan that will address standard
naming conventions for configuration management and a configuration
management database.
Data architects and project managers are responsible for creating a
project configuration management plan the project planning phase.
These plans are intended to identify all the deliverables that will be
produced by the the project, the owner of the deliverable and whether
the deliverable falls under configuration management control.
Project team members are responsible for updating and maintaining the
project configuration management database to help determine the
impact of change requests during the project.
Project team members are responsible for creating a release plan and
object migration plan to identify all configuration items included in a
release package.
Production support configuration management specialists are
responsible for updating and maintaining the configuration management
database to include new objects included in a production release.
They are also responsible for working with software configuration
management tools such as Serena to track all changes to the production
environment and to "back-out" changes in the event of issues or
problems with the release
Change managers are responsible for ensuring that the configuration
management database is reviewed to determine the impact of change
requests in th production environment. They frequently call upon
production support configuration management specialists to perform this
impact analysis.
Configuration management jobs
Configuration management specialists may be assigned to a
project team to help control changes to the application after life
cycle activities commence. They might be involved with:
- Providing a method to ensure the functional and
physical characteristics of the information management system are
identical to the specifications defined in the technical documentation;
- Identifying and controlling change to the functional and physical characteristics of hardware and software;
- Providing
a method for formal evaluation of the impact of proposed changes to the
functional and physical characteristics of hardware and software;
- Monitoring and reporting configuration management status;
- Establishing communications plans for all stakeholders impacted by changes to the application; and
- Identifying, establishing and controlling configuration baselines.
Responsibilities might include:
- Identification, which is selecting and labeling all functional and physical characteristics of hardware and software;
- Control, which is the evaluation, coordination,
approval and implementation of all approved changes to the established
configuration baseline;
- Accounting, which provides the administrative support
required for maintaining information management system baselines and
monitoring the status of the system throughout the life cycle; and
- Audi, which involves examining configuration records to verify the success of change control and identification processes.
What
qualifications are required for configuration management jobs?
Information arrangement configuration management specialists must have at least 2-4 years of experience with data
movement software such as Informatica, Ab Initio and Ascential
DataStage, experience working in a data warehousing environment and experience with configuration management concepts and tools.
What are
salaries expectations?
Configuration management specialists with 3-5 years of related data warehousing
experience should expect to earn $70,000-95,000.
What are
contract employee salary expectations?
Contract employees can expect to earn anywhere
from $45 to $70 per
hour. However, this is the amount that is paid to a staffing
company. The amount the contract employee receives will depend upon the
fee demanded by the resource-staffing firm.
Can this
work be done part time?
Configuration management work can be done remote. This is a part time role during the
development phase and requires at least a 50% involvement during
quality assurance testing and release to production.
Configuration management jobs can be considered a part time project role. It is a good candidate for
contract employees and offshore development.
Summary…
Information
management projects are data centric and require highly skilled IT
specialists to fill configuration management jobs. This role is a good candidate for part time, remote access work.

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