Software Integration Engineer (TS/SCI CI Poly Clearance Required)

North Point Technology is seeking an experienced TS/SCI Cleared Software Integration Engineer to provide support to a mission critical enterprise identity and access management system. A successful candidate will develop an understanding of the services offered to external organizations, provide lifecycle systems engineering support to development and operations on the program, and use a combination of technical and functional expertise to recommend solutions to satisfy customer requirements. 

This program requires employees to have an active TS/SCI clearance with and SCI and must pass a CI Poly every 5 years.  If you have a Full Scope Poly, working this program will keep your Full Scope ACTIVE.

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

Required Skills:

• 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 Skills:

• 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)