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# Security Engineer, Senior

- **Company:** Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $86,800.0 - $198,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Continuous Integration, Data Security, Distributed Systems, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Security Information and Event Management, Data Streaming, Cloud Platform System, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Data Management, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Splunk, Devsecops, Docker, Plan of Action and Milestones, Confluent, Databricks
- **Published:** September 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/88448144/1

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

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.


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