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# Defense System Analyst

- **Company:** Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
- **Location:** Scott Air Force Base, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $86,800.0 - $198,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Configuration Management, Cyber Security, Information Security Management, Performance Tuning, SAP (Applications), Software Engineering, Information Technology, Vulnerability Analysis
- **Published:** August 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=1637176e0a47844a

## About the Role

* Experience conducting security lifecycle operations
 * Experience with configuration control management
 * Knowledge of cybersecurity practices and risk management framework
 * Knowledge of system troubleshooting and performance optimization
 * Ability to conduct hardware and software lifecycle support
 * Top Secret clearance
 * HS diploma or GED and 5+ years of experience with IT systems and cybersecurity, or Bachelor's degree in IT

Nice If You Have:

 * Experience with change management
 * Experience with Top Secret and SAP Networks
 * Experience with COMSEC handling and custody
 * Experience with VTC and Help Desk Operations
 * TS/SCI clearance
 * Change Management Certification
 * COMP TIA A+ completion

Clearance:
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Top Secret clearance is required.

## Description

As a defense mission professional, you ask questions others don't. You understand the nuances of complex situations. You use your skills to think bigger and push further, solving complex problems. We're looking for an expert like you to create solutions for missions that keep our nation safe.

As a defense mission expert, you'll bring your analytical, cybersecurity, and risk management expertise to work on projects. You'll identify, analyze, and evaluate complex and highly sensitive systems, policies, processes, and instrumentation related to foreign threats and homeland security. You will determine procedures for solving complex design, integration and analytical problems. Conduct cybersecurity and risk management activities to include continuous monitoring and change management, vulnerability assessments, and compliance inspections. You will administer systems and engineering to include configuration control, security patch management, monitor system health and troubleshoot hardware and software interfaces. You will conduct hardware and software upgrades, manage COMSEC accounts, and provide Tier 1/2 troubleshooting report for enterprise users.

You'll be a trusted advisor to our clients, and key enabler to the mission. We'll look to you to identify, analyze, and evaluate complex systems, policies, and processes.

You'll guide the work we do and the solutions we deliver for national security, strategic planning, and defense mission planning.

Further your career with us as you help solve complex design, integration, and analytical problems.


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