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 will apply technical knowledge and project management skills to support multiple concurrent client integrations with our enterprise ICAM services. 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. You’ll be interfacing with the customer directly in Springfield Virginia. This is a Springboard position – giving you the facetime and experience you need to jump into a technical leader on the program!

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

Core Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain a Polygraph.

• Must be a US Citizen

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant work experience. Master’s degree with 6+ years of 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

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

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active TS SCI clearance with Polygraph

• 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)

At Leidos, we don’t want someone who "fits the mold"—we want someone who melts it down and builds something better. This is a role for the restless, the over-caffeinated, the ones who ask, “what’s next?” before the dust settles on “what’s now.”

If you’re already scheming step 20 while everyone else is still debating step 2… good. You’ll fit right in.

Original Posting:

August 26, 2025

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $104,650.00 - $189,175.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.