Cloud Security Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton1 month ago
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop, implement, and support secure cloud architectures for mission-critical Intelligence Community systems.
- Support security documentation, validation, assessment, accreditation, and compliance activities for IT systems.
- Evaluate security architectures, provide guidance, troubleshoot issues, and analyze actual system states against desired security states and risk thresholds.
- Evaluate applications and software utilities for adherence to software assurance best practices.
- Research and recommend security tools and capabilities across on-premise, cloud-based, and hybrid environments.
- Advise Intelligence Community clients and leaders on security requirements, strategic objectives, doctrine, and procedures.
Requirements
- At least five years of experience building and administering cloud environments using cloud-native functionality, commercial off-the-shelf, government off-the-shelf, and open-source tools.
- Experience developing and evaluating security documentation, including system security plans, contingency plans, security procedures, and continuity of operations plans.
- Experience with security architecture evaluations, guidance development, troubleshooting, and the Risk Management Framework.
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code concepts such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep.
- Active TS/SCI clearance and willingness to take a polygraph examination.
- Qualifying education and experience combination: high school diploma or GED plus 7 years, associate degree plus 5 years, bachelor's degree plus 3 years, or master's degree plus 1 year of IT project and activity support experience.
- Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT Level III certification and a DoD 8570 CSSP-IS certification within 30 days of starting.
- Preferred qualifications include SDLC experience and strong team leadership, client relationship, interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
Benefits
- Onsite work with locations in McLean, Norfolk, or Reston, Virginia; Riverdale, Maryland; or Washington, DC.
- Benefits include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement programs, paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards and other total well-being programs are available to eligible full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week.
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).