Cybersecurity Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton1 month ago
Base Salary
$87k - $198k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, integrate, and maintain systems and tools that automate complex cybersecurity activities.
- Secure, harden, and remediate vulnerabilities in AWS GovCloud environments.
- Develop automation for cybersecurity, compliance, cloud governance, and infrastructure operations.
- Integrate REST APIs, cloud APIs, Git repositories, Jira, ServiceNow, and enterprise systems.
- Translate complex security and compliance requirements into repeatable workflows and technical requirements.
- Design automation that produces traceable outputs, source citations, audit logs, and human review checkpoints.
- Work with read-only access to code, SSPs, account metadata, configuration data, and security tooling.
- Work independently with extensive technical expertise while mentoring and supervising team members.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience securing, hardening, and remediating security vulnerabilities in AWS GovCloud.
- Experience with CMMC, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, DoD security controls, or cybersecurity compliance frameworks.
- Experience developing automation for cybersecurity, compliance, cloud governance, or infrastructure operations.
- Experience integrating REST APIs, Git repositories, Jira, ServiceNow, cloud APIs, or enterprise systems.
- Knowledge of SSPs, control inheritance, POA&Ms, evidence collection, system boundaries, and shared responsibility models.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Preferred experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, policy-as-code, OPA, or comparable technologies.
- Preferred experience designing AI-assisted workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, agent workflows, MCP integrations, or enterprise knowledge systems.
- Preferred experience with ServiceNow CMDB, Jira, Confluence, GitHub Enterprise, or similar systems.
- Preferred experience across commercial, GovCloud, CUI, or IL5 environments and knowledge of secure software development, secrets management, identity, data classification, and least-privilege access.
- Preferred ability to evaluate AI-generated outputs and establish measurable automation and evidence-quality baselines.
- CISSP, CCSP, Security+, CySA+, AWS Security Specialty, or equivalent certification is preferred.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care support.
- Recognition awards program for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible for applicable benefit programs.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring work at a Booz Allen or customer facility according to leadership expectations and role needs.
- The role is located in Annapolis Junction, Maryland, with an additional location in McLean, Virginia.
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).