Cloud Security Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton

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Work type
On-site
Location
Reston, VASpringfield, VA
Salary
$86,800–$198,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
10 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today

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Below market

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This role $142k
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This role pays less than 78% of similar roles. Most pay $143,278–$199,925 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $142k versus about $172k for comparable roles.

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About Booz Allen Hamilton

Booz Allen Hamilton is a management and technology consulting firm that provides analytics, digital, engineering, and cybersecurity solutions primarily to U.S. government agencies and commercial clients. Industry: Management & Technology Consulting

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TL;DR · Cloud Security Engineer

As a Cloud Security Engineer, you will join a team focused on integrating OCI environments with enterprise security-monitoring capabilities in a mission-focused environment. You will design and implement solutions to collect, protect, route, normalize, and validate telemetry across cloud, network, platform, operating system, database, and application layers. Your daily responsibilities include designing secure log-collection architectures using APIs, agents, syslog, event streaming, object storage, or message queues. You will also troubleshoot SIEM integration issues involving connectivity, certificates, proxies, firewalls, field mapping, and alert noise while developing architecture diagrams, test plans, and runbooks. The role requires expertise in OCI solutions including IAM, Audit, Logging, Cloud Guard, and key management. Technical requirements include experience with Terraform, Cribl, Elastic, and various security-monitoring platforms to ensure data integrity and visibility across complex infrastructure.

What you'll do

  • Integrate OCI environments with enterprise security-monitoring architectures and agency services.
  • Design, deploy, and operate OCI solutions for IAM, audit, logging, and network security.
  • Integrate cloud telemetry from various layers into enterprise SIEM and monitoring platforms.
  • Configure audit and telemetry sources across cloud, network, platform, and application layers.
  • Build secure log-collection and forwarding architectures using APIs, agents, and message queues.
  • Validate log integrity, completeness, retention, and normalization for actionable security data.
  • Troubleshoot SIEM integration issues including connectivity, certificate errors, and field mapping.
  • Create technical documentation including architecture diagrams, test plans, dashboards, and runbooks.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience in cloud security engineering, cybersecurity, or security architecture.
  • Experience integrating commercial cloud environments with agency-specific enterprise services and identity architectures.
  • Experience designing, deploying, securing, and operating OCI solutions.
  • Experience integrating cloud audit, logging, monitoring, and security telemetry with enterprise SIEM and monitoring platforms.
  • Experience configuring telemetry sources across cloud, network, platform, operating system, database, and application layers.
  • Experience designing secure log-collection and forwarding architectures using APIs, agents, syslog, event streaming, object storage, or message queues.
  • Experience validating log completeness, integrity, retention, access restrictions, parsing, normalization, and monitoring coverage.
  • Active TS/SCI clearance and willingness to take a polygraph exam; Bachelor's degree required.
  • Experience with Cribl, Elastic, Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, or other automated cloud configuration tools (preferred).
  • Experience supporting authorization packages, control validation, remediation tracking, or mission environments (preferred).
  • OCI Associate- or Professional-level certifications in Architecture, Security, Networking, or Cloud Operations (preferred).

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