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Systems Engineer
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Job Description:
Job Description:
We have an IMMEDIATE NEED for a Systems Engineer on our large, multi-year contract for the development, integration, deployment and sustainment of a mission critical enterprise Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) system. The work being performed on this Leidos-led, prime contract is extremely important to the government and offers its team members the opportunity to work autonomously and explore new technologies. You will join a tremendous technical team solving hard problems with true mission relevance on emerging technologies.
***This position can be located in either the Chantilly, VA or Gaithersburg, MD Leidos locations. This is a hybrid position where the work can be done a couple days remotely***
Primary Responsibilities:
- Technical support, coordination, and execution of systems engineering activities such as feature/requirements analysis, design, implementation planning, integration and test, sustainment, documentation, deployment, and system assessment
- Establish a design framework that can be utilized to capture the key information for all existing, new, and enhanced features of our services and capabilities
- Identify solution options and perform and document analyses of alternatives associated with technical solutions for needs, requirements, or use cases
- Perform systems engineering tasks within time-boxed (e.g. agile) sprints and releases. Support sprint and release planning activities as well as the creation of and/or input to work tickets (e.g. JIRA) as well as program/system documentation through the use of collaboration software (e.g. Confluence)
- Collaborate with Test Team on the development and modification of requirements and the development or modification of test procedures
- Collaborate with technical leadership on strategies and implementation of automated tests in support of use cases and requirements.
- Enhance existing / produce new documents such as System CONOP, service detailed designs, system administration guides, and user guides
Core Qualifications:
- Bachelors of Science and 4- 8 years of prior relevant experience or a Master of Science degree with 2-6 years of prior relevant experience
- Experience with decomposing need statements, requirements, and use cases into technical solutions
- Experience with identifying open standards software solutions and components and their associated interfaces and networking, infrastructure, database, and platform specifications (cloud or on-premise) for the delivery of software components
- Experience producing technical documentation such as CONOP, detailed designs, whitepapers, administrator and / or user guides
- Understanding of the DODAF and its associated views
- Demonstrated ability to work successfully in a team and independently
- Proactive, self-motivated, innovative thinker
- Strong attention to detail; highly organized
- Understanding of how to architect a system for high availability and fault tolerance
- Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to tailor your messaging to difference audiences, both technical and non-technical
- Proficiency with MS Office Products (Word, Excel, Visio, & PowerPoint).
- Local to DC/Maryland/Virginia
- Active Top Secret (eligible for SCI) clearance*
- All candidates must be US CITIZENS to be considered for the position
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working on an enterprise-level project or system with high availability and accountability requirements
- Knowledge of or experience with solutions incorporating one or more of the following Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) standards or concepts:
- Attribute and Identity Federation
- Identity provisioning / de-provisioning
- OAuth 2.0
- OpenID Connect (OIDC)
- SAML
- SCIM
- Multi-factor Authentication solutions (AAL2 and AAL3)
- Single Sign On
- Entitlement Management
- Familiarity or previous experience with multiple of the following technologies:
- Rest, XML, and JSON
- Cloud infrastructure platforms (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure)
- API Gateways
- Familiarity with one or more of the following:
- Database setup and integration, both relational and NoSQL (Oracle DB, MySQL, CouchDB)
- DevOps automation tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
- Source control and Agile development tools (Git, Maven, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence)
- Analytics and search engines (Elasticsearch, Splunk, Apache Solr)
- Web application proxies
Clearance Requirements*
Requires an active Top Secret security clearance upon hire and must meet SCI eligibility. Must be willing and able to obtain a polygraph within the customer’s timeline after hire. Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.
This is a fully funded position and contingent on clearance crossover