Senior Software Integration Engineer

The GEOAxIS system provides Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM) for web applications. GEOAxIS enables online, on-demand, access to NGA GEOINT content based on user’s authoritative attributes/roles. Our Mission is to maintain highly available ICAM services for protecting those critical mission applications across multiple security domains. The GxNext contract was awarded to Leidos in 2021 and runs until 2031.

In this role, you’ll work directly with the Consumer Integration team in Chantilly, Virginia to meet deadlines and improve their technical procedures. You will enjoy learning new concepts and technologies and will brief status and capabilities to technical and non-technical audiences as you support them throughout their integration. Day-to-day, you’ll be working with consumers of Gx services all over the world to support their mission activities.

 

Responsibilities:

• Leverage project management skills to manage a client’s integration with our services

• Debug software issues, investigate root causes, and recommend fixes

• Brief Program and/or Customer leadership; Communicate to clients and partners aspects of both the product and the implementation at the technical and functional level appropriate for the situation

• Implement, evolve, and support authentication, Single Sign On (SSO), Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), federation, and cloud infrastructure

• Implement methods, standards, and approaches for describing, analyzing, and documenting an organization's enterprise IT architecture

• Perform software testing or validation procedures, improving the procedures as needed

• Perform system integration and experience integrating services from different systems

• Help remove impediments and raise larger issues to the Program Leadership

• Feeding the CI/CD pipeline – requirements gathering through usability sessions

Basic Qualifications:

• Active TS SCI Clearance, CI Poly eligible; Must be a US Citizen

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience with 8 years of relevant work experience or master’s degree with 6 years of prior relevant experience

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and extensive experience working with external

• Demonstrated ability to document processes/ procedures

• Ability to recognize when the client requires customizations to a standard solution

• Ability to debug software issues, investigate root causes, and recommend fixes

• SEC+ certification or DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification, or ability to attain certification within 60 days of start

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active TS SCI clearance with CI Poly

• Active CompTIA Sec+ Certification

• Demonstrated experience in strong authentication technologies and protocols (e.g., PKI, SSL)

• System administration skills with Linux systems

• Knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC), Scrum, and Agile processes

• Knowledge of Oracle Identity and Access Management (IdAM) suite, including Oracle Access Manager (OAM), and Oracle Unified Directory (OUD)

• Knowledge of Ping, Kubernetes, Docker, and Ansible

• Knowledge of authentication standards using OAuth, SAML, or PKI

• Knowledge of open standards such as REST, SOAP, JSON, LDAP

• Knowledge of Authentication (AuthN), Authorization (AuthZ), Digital Policy Management (DPM), Entitlement Management (EM), and Authoritative Attributes (AuthA)

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