Enterprise Cybersecurity AI Infrastructure Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton29 days ago
McLean, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$62k - $141k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build, operate, and optimize AI infrastructure platforms based on Databricks and AWS.
- Create and scale data pipelines for security telemetry and threat intelligence using governed schemas.
- Build model evaluation, validation, serving, experiment-tracking, rollout, and rollback paths.
- Develop and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD with self-hosted runners, AWS OIDC, IAM, Secrets Manager, pull-request environments, and production promotion.
- Implement DevSecOps controls including dependency and secret scanning, infrastructure policy, service-principal isolation, and least-privilege Unity Catalog access.
- Own infrastructure as code for catalogs, permissions, and deployments using Terraform or Terragrunt and Databricks Asset Bundles.
- Partner with AI/ML engineers, data scientists, and SOC operators on retrieval, scoring, and agent workflow capabilities.
- Perform design and code reviews, set technical direction, and translate analyst and researcher needs into reusable infrastructure.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of software engineering experience building and operating production-scale machine learning infrastructure, data platforms, or distributed systems.
- At least 2 years of experience creating and training agents and models for agentic AI, including tool calling, evaluation, and production deployment.
- Experience with AWS, Databricks, GitHub Actions, IAM, OIDC federation, and Secrets Manager.
- Experience with Python, SQL, Terraform or Terragrunt, coding agents, large or sensitive datasets, schema management, and reproducible deployments.
- Experience owning platform work from technical design through production deployment and operational monitoring.
- Experience applying DevSecOps practices including least-privilege access, secret handling, and automated security checks.
- Knowledge of cybersecurity operations or security telemetry.
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
- High school diploma or GED required.
- Preferred experience includes Docker, Kubernetes, Spark, Ray, PyTorch Distributed, MLflow, vector indexes, model endpoints, tool gateways, AWS storage and networking, FedRAMP, IL4, IL5, NIST AI RMF, OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, SIEM, SOAR, and threat-intelligence platforms.
- Preferred certifications include AWS, Databricks, CKA, CKAD, CISSP, or an AI security certification.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards and other total well-being programs.
- Full-time and part-time employees regularly working at least 20 hours per week may participate in applicable benefit programs.
- Hybrid work arrangement in McLean, Virginia, with work at a Booz Allen or customer facility according to leadership expectations and role needs.
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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).