Systems Engineer Expert

About the role

Leidos is seeking a Systems Engineer for a 200+ FTE technical development program supporting the Sponsor’s Entitlement Programs as well as IdAM/ICAM, Authentication, Authorization, Attributes and Digital Policy Management. The Systems Engineer will work with a large team of developers, software engineers and data engineers. The successful candidate will support continuity of the customer’s mission by helping to modernize and implement industry standards while ensuring secure, reliable, and uninterrupted availability of IT systems.

Responsibilities

• Build outs, testing, maintenance, and monitoring of systems.
• Ensure designs are compatible with the architecture and allocated requirements to segments.
• Address user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate and improve existing systems; review computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
• Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, cost estimation, requirements allocation, and interfaced definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
• Identify system integrity issues and solutions for the full system life cycle from concept to disposal.
• Integrate systems and services as well as summarize and communicate results.
• Support the development, documentation, and execution of system policies.

Qualifications

Support the ATO / Accreditation effort for customer systems and applications.

Required Skills

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• BS degree and 16 years of prior relevant experience or Master’s degree with 10‑13 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience with the Cloud / Amazon Web Services.
• Experience with SQL.
• Agile Methodology / Jira, Confluence; ServiceNow (ESP).
• Experience providing Linux Administration.
• Familiarity with security accreditation process (security tools and processes; RMF, NIST, accreditation apps such as Xacta, GreenLight; system and vulnerability scanning; POA&M tracking).
• Excellent customer support and attention to detail – Tier 3 and Tier 4 level support to team and customer base.
• Provide Release Management for deployment readiness, coordination and activities (requires occasional late‑night work, typically once or twice a month, 5 pm – 9 pm).

Desired Skills

• Experience with IdAM/ICAM delivery systems, authentication, authorization, attributes entitlement management and digital policy management.
• LDAP experience is a plus.
• Security+, CISSP.
• Amazon Web Services certification.
• Experience with BPM/BAW.
• Experience with Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• DevSecOps.
• Experience with CLSE.

Pay

Pay Range: $131,300.00 – $237,350.00. 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 responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, internal equity, market data, applicable bargaining agreements, or other legal considerations.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. Compensation packages reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, health and wellness programs, income protection, paid leave, and retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.