Cloud Security Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton1 day ago
Base Salary
$87k - $198k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define, communicate, and implement cloud security architectures for mission-critical systems.
- Recommend security tools and capabilities across on-premise, cloud-based, and hybrid environments to address RMF requirements.
- Work with developers to ensure information assurance and security standards are met.
- Evaluate security architectures, develop guidance, and troubleshoot security issues.
- Implement STIGs, Linux security hardening, and custom STIG-hardened AMIs.
- Configure security analytics, centralized logging, threat detection, and integrations with AWS security services.
- Manage POA&Ms, vulnerability remediation, security documentation, continuous monitoring, and improvements to security posture.
- Mentor developing cloud security professionals.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building and administering cloud environments and using cloud-native, COTS, GOTS, and open-source tools.
- Experience with security architecture evaluations, guidance development, troubleshooting, and the Risk Management Framework.
- Experience with AWS infrastructure, IAM, VPC networking, security controls, and troubleshooting.
- Experience implementing STIGs, Linux security hardening, and custom STIG-hardened AMIs.
- Experience with Splunk or AWS-native OpenSearch-based security analytics, centralized logging, threat detection, and AWS security-service integrations.
- Experience with POA&Ms, vulnerability management and remediation, security documentation, continuous monitoring, and security-posture improvement.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.
- Preferred: SDLC and cloud-technology experience, multicloud governance and automation across AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, or other providers.
- Preferred: DoD 8570 IAT Level III or CSSP-IS certifications, including SecurityX, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP, GCED, GCIH, CCSP, CEH, CySA+, GICSP, SSCP, CHFI, CFR, Cloud+, or CND.
- Preferred: excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
- Booz Allen benefits are generally available to full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis, with select offerings for employees below that threshold.
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).