Cyber Automation Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton15 hours ago
Base Salary
$87k - $198k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, integrate, and maintain systems and tools that automate complex cybersecurity activities.
- Develop automation, integrations, and security tooling for enterprise cloud and platform environments.
- Automate security controls, compliance validation, vulnerability management, continuous monitoring, and incident response activities.
- Implement logging, monitoring, audit, and security telemetry solutions across AWS, cloud-native platforms, and enterprise applications.
- Deploy and operate security capabilities in containerized and cloud-native environments.
- Collaborate with cloud engineers, platform engineers, data engineers, and security stakeholders on secure architectures, security risks, remediation strategies, and technical solutions.
- Work independently on complex problems and mentor or supervise team members.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience designing, developing, and implementing cybersecurity automation solutions for enterprise cloud or platform environments.
- At least 5 years of experience automating security controls, compliance validation, vulnerability management, continuous monitoring, or incident response activities.
- Experience with Python, APIs, scripting frameworks, or cloud-native services for automation, integrations, and security tooling.
- Experience implementing logging, monitoring, audit, and security telemetry solutions across AWS, cloud-native platforms, and enterprise applications.
- Experience supporting federal cybersecurity and compliance frameworks such as RMF, ATO, NIST 800-53, or Continuous Monitoring.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS EKS in containerized and cloud-native environments.
- TS/SCI clearance with polygraph required.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Preferred experience includes automated compliance, security posture management, vulnerability remediation, policy enforcement workflows, AWS security services, SIEM, SOAR, cloud security posture management, DevSecOps, Git-based workflows, Databricks, AI/ML platforms, and data platforms.
- Preferred certifications include Security+, CISSP, AWS Security Specialty, GIAC, Certified Cloud Security Professional, or similar industry certification.
- Applicants must be eligible for access to classified information and may be subject to a security investigation.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits are available to eligible regular employees.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, dependent care, and recognition awards are offered.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible for Booz Allen benefit programs, with select offerings for others.
- The position is onsite in Alexandria, Virginia, or St. Louis, Missouri, and work is primarily performed at a customer facility.
- The role is not remote.
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).