Software Engineer - SME (AUTHZ-13)

Software Engineer - SME (AUTHZ-13)
Clearance: TS/SCI with FSP
Location: Reston, VA
Salary: $246k-$266k

Leidos is seeking a Software Developer for a 200+ FTE technical development program supporting the Sponsor's Entitlement Programs as well as IdAM /ICAM, Authentication, Authorization, Entitlements and Digital Policy Management. The Software Developer will work with a large team of developers and cloud engineers.

Primary Responsibilities:
The Developer will be part of a team of developers and cloud engineers that create new features for legacy applications as sponsor's mission continues to expand and evolve. Our team also builds new applications as new mission needs arise. The Developer works closely with product owners, business analysts, and other teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions. The Developer will analyze and decompose complex software systems and create designs for scalability, testability, and performance. Our work rhythm revolves around the Scrum agile framework to deliver incremental enhancements on a 3-week cycle. Developers actively participate in planning deliverables and grooming the Jira backlog. We rely on team collaboration to continually fine tune performance and ensure clear communication. Developers also participate in a team rotation of O&M responsibilities. They are required to be on-call for after-hours support approximately one week every three months.

Required Qualifications
Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
BS degree and 16+ years of relevant experience
Experience creating applications with Java, Springboot, and Amazon Web Services for backend components, focusing on low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems
Experience working closely with product owners, business analysts, and other teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
Experience analyzing and decomposing complex software systems and creating designs for scalability, testability, and performance
Experience writing custom scripts to install and configure code in EC2 instances
Experience using Git, Jenkins, and Rundeck
Experience using CloudFormation scripts
Experience creating RESTful API
Experience working on a team that used the Scrum agile framework
Experience manipulating data using XML, JSON and YAML formats

Desired Qualifications
Certification - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Experience delivering containerized applications with services similar to Docker and Kubernetes
Experience creating applications/services using Python
Experience with Elasticsearch and/or Kibana
Experience creating applications that rely on tokenization
Experience writing custom scripts to install and configure code in EC2 instances
Understanding of Identity Access Management (IAM) and Zero Trust concepts
Understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) concepts such as prompt engineering and large language models (LLM)
Experience building microservices
Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Katalon Studio or Selenium
Experience building solutions designed to continue operation even if one AWS region is unavailable