Security Engineer, Senior

As a cloud security architect on our team, you’ll integrate cybersecurity, authorization, compliance, and DevSecOps practices across cloud platforms, infrastructure, applications, data platforms, and CI/CD workflows. You’ll help secure and authorize cloud-native environments, with a focus on AWS GovCloud and Databricks. You’ll recommend tools and capabilities based on your research of the current environment and knowledge of various on-premises, cloud-based, and hybrid resources to address risk management framework (RMF). Your technical expertise will be vital as you work with clients to ensure standards are met with information assurance and security requirements.

• 5+ years of experience in security engineering, cloud security architecture, or securing largescale distributed systems
• Experience designing and implementing cloud security controls, monitoring strategies and threat detection capabilities, and supporting security metrics, incident response, rootcause analysis, and postincident improvements
• Experience securing workloads in AWS, including in regulated or sensitive cloud environments
• Experience with data platforms and data security, and scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or Go
• Experience with InfrastructureasCode such as Terraform
• Experience with SIEM, observability, and monitoring platforms such as Splunk, Elastic, CloudWatch, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry, and containers and orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience securing CI/CD pipelines and cloudnative delivery processes
• Knowledge of cloud security, compliance frameworks, and production security best practices
• Public Trust
• Bachelor’s degree

Nice If You Have:

• Experience securing or modernizing government or financial systems
• Experience with eventdriven or streaming platforms such as Kafka, Confluent and AWS MKS
• Experience with chaos engineering or advanced reliability and faultinjection practices
• Experience operating in multicloud or hybrid environments
• Experience tracking Authority to Operate milestones, control dependencies, risks, evidence needs, assessor actions, and POA&M remediation
• Professionallevel AWS Certifications such as AWS Security - Specialty Certification
• Security Certifications such as CISSP Certification

Vetting:

Applicants selected will be subject to a government investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements of the U.S. government client; Public Trust determination is required.

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Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $86,800.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

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• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen or customer facility, in alignment with your leadership’s expectations and the needs of the role.
• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed full-time at a customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.