Cybersecurity Architect
Booz Allen Hamilton6 hours ago
Base Salary
$87k - $198k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead cybersecurity architecture and design efforts for federal networks and complex customer environments.
- Develop secure network and systems designs that reduce attack surfaces and balance security with mission requirements.
- Lead technical project delivery, product selection, and implementation planning for cybersecurity capabilities.
- Guide senior leaders, including CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, and executives, in cybersecurity capability maturation.
- Develop solutions involving IoT and cloud security, automation and orchestration, identity and access management, machine learning, zero trust, and network access control.
- Collaborate with project and proposal teams and author technical documentation, white papers, and blogs.
Requirements
- 8+ years of cybersecurity experience.
- 5+ years leading technical project delivery for large, complex organizations.
- 5+ years of network architecture and design experience.
- Experience leading product selection initiatives involving perimeter defense, zero trust, automation and orchestration, AI, analytics, secure DevOps, identity and access management, or network access control.
- Active TS/SCI clearance and willingness to take a polygraph examination.
- Associate’s degree and 10+ years, bachelor’s degree and 8+ years, master’s degree and 6+ years, or 12+ years of IT project and activity experience in lieu of a degree.
- DoD 8570 IAT Level III and IASAE Level II certification, such as SecurityX or CISSP.
- Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 CSSP-IS certification within 30 days of starting, including CEH, CySA+, GICSP, SSCP, CHFI, CFR, Cloud+, or CND.
- Preferred: experience in cybersecurity compliance, operations, or engineering leadership; security tool selection and implementation; AI, machine learning, NGFW, and big data; Zero Trust architecture aligned with NIST 800-207 and DoD Zero Trust Reference Architecture; AWS, Azure, or GCP; and technical documentation and proposal development.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, dependent care, and recognition awards.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis may participate in applicable benefit programs.
- Onsite work is primarily performed full-time at a customer facility; locations include Reston, VA, Norfolk, VA, Riverdale, MD, and Washington, DC.
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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).