Software Engineer II: API & DevSecOps Engineer

Talentify; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 70,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos in Washington, DC is seeking a Software Engineer II to support DOJ/OJP/OCIO initiatives, delivering secure, reliable, accessible digital products and services. You'll work under senior engineers to improve, test, and maintain software, drive automated testing, and contribute to DevSecOps practices across APIs, integrations, and data services in an Agile environment.

The role emphasizes collaboration with government stakeholders, documentation, and adherence to security and accessibility

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Minimum two (2) years of progressively responsible software engineering or application development experience.
• Experience developing, enhancing, debugging, testing, or maintaining enterprise or web-based applications across one or more application layers.
• Experience with modern source control and software-development practices, including Git-based workflows, code reviews, and automated testing.
• Experience working in Agile development environments and participating in iterative planning, backlog refinement, sprint execution, or Kanban delivery.
• Working knowledge of REST APIs, JSON, authentication/authorization concepts, and common integration patterns.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD, cloud platforms, containers, automation, or Infrastructure as Code.
• Ability to troubleshoot defects, test failures, integration issues, and deployment problems and document findings clearly.
• Strong analytical, written communication, problem-solving, and team collaboration skills.
• Must satisfy citizenship, residency, background-investigation, and Public Trust requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop, modify, test, debug, and maintain software components supporting OJP digital products, APIs, automation, and internal platforms.
• Provide software improvements to existing applications and services by implementing enhancements and defect corrections.
• Translate user stories and technical requirements into working software using Agile practices.
• Create and maintain automated unit, integration, regression, API, and data tests to improve release quality.
• Participate in Git-based workflows, code reviews, pull requests, branching, merging, and configuration-management practices.
• Support CI/CD pipelines, build automation, security scanning, artifact or container workflows, and repeatable deployment processes.
• Develop, consume, test, and maintain APIs and web services through OJP's data-integration environment using REST, JSON, XML, SOAP.
• Support API integrations with DIAMD including Okta and SailPoint and protocols such as SCIM, OAuth 2.0, and SAML.
• Collaborate with engineers, DevOps, product managers, and Government stakeholders to deliver secure, compliant, accessible capabilities.
• Investigate and resolve help desk tickets, defects, test failures, and deployment problems; escalate as needed.
• Participate in defect triage, root-cause analysis, sprint reviews, and backlog refinement.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, SOPs, and implementation notes for supported products.

Skills

REST APIs

JSON

Authentication/Authorization

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Containers

Agile

DevSecOps

Git workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Ansible

Docker

WSO2 API Manager

Git

Linux

Job description

Leidos in Washington, DC is seeking a Software Engineer II to support DOJ/OJP/OCIO initiatives, delivering secure, reliable, accessible digital products and services. You'll work under senior engineers to improve, test, and maintain software, drive automated testing, and contribute to DevSecOps practices across APIs, integrations, and data services in an Agile environment.

The role emphasizes collaboration with government stakeholders, documentation, and adherence to security and accessibility