Forward Deployed Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton6 hours ago
Arlington, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$78k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Deploy and configure enterprise defenses against AI attackers in customer environments.
- Integrate containerized components and playbooks with existing security tools.
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure, CI/CD workflows, and DevOps automation platforms.
- Troubleshoot deployments, networks, systems, open-source tools, and commercial tools across cloud and UNIX or Linux environments.
- Validate system performance and translate customer feedback into product and operational improvements.
- Support forward-deployed engineering, presales, customer success, and customer-facing technical engagements.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience designing, deploying, and troubleshooting DevOps infrastructure across cloud providers or on-premises environments.
- 4+ years of experience with container technologies, container orchestration, virtual machines, and Infrastructure-as-Code environments.
- 3+ years of experience with DevOps and automation platforms such as GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or Flux.
- Experience with CI/CD workflows, DevOps automation, network and system troubleshooting, and front-facing or forward-deployed engineering.
- Knowledge of Python, Bash scripting, Linux Shell Script, software development life cycle concepts, and basic cybersecurity concepts.
- Bachelor’s degree in a computer science or engineering field with 2+ years of software engineering experience, or 6+ years of software engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
- Ability to travel up to 20% and obtain a Secret clearance.
- Preferred qualifications include enterprise cloud-native solution development, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Jenkins, Azure, continuous deployment tools, public-cloud troubleshooting, TS/SCI clearance, and a master’s degree.
Benefits
- Hybrid work in Arlington, Virginia, with frequent work at a Booz Allen facility and possible customer-facility visits.
- Up to 20% travel may be required.
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits are available to eligible employees.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, dependent care, and recognition awards are offered.
- Employees working virtually are generally expected to keep cameras on during meetings.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).