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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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The Cyber Automation Engineer joins the team to leverage DevSecOps principles to automate complex cyber activities and streamline security operations. You will build and automate critical cybersecurity workflows, including vulnerability scanning, patch orchestration, continuous monitoring, and repetitive SOC tasks. Your daily work involves engineering API integrations, scripting automated playbooks, and hardening cloud-native environments to ensure compliance with enterprise standards. You will utilize technologies such as Linux, Windows Server, MacOS, Crowdstrike, Splunk, and ServiceNow. Key skills include managing Chainguard images, Sonatype Nexus, and JFrog Artifactory, while embedding security into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, SAST, DAST, and SCA. You will also secure AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes platforms using identity and access management protocols like HTTPS, TLS, SSL, SSH, SSO, MFA, and RBAC.
Automate critical cybersecurity workflows including vulnerability scanning, patch orchestration, and continuous monitoring.
Script automated playbooks to handle repetitive SOC tasks and security operations.
Embed security metrics and automated gates into CI/CD delivery platforms.
Implement software supply chain risk management and protect deployment paths.
Engineer API integrations between modern security tools and cloud resources.
Harden cloud-native environments using admission controls and network policies.
Perform infrastructure-as-code scanning and container image scanning.
Ensure all environments remain in compliance with enterprise security standards.
What we're looking for
Experience with Linux, Windows Server, and MacOS.
Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Crowdstrike, Splunk, or ServiceNow.
Experience with Chainguard images or hardened container base images for supply chain security.
Experience with artifact and container registries such as Sonatype Nexus and JFrog Artifactory.
Experience embedding security into CI/CD pipelines including SAST, DAST, SCA, and infrastructure-as-code scanning.
Experience with GitHub DevSecOps workflows, including Actions, branch protection, and secret scanning.
Experience securing cloud-native delivery platforms such as AWS, Docker, or Kubernetes.
Experience with identity and access management, including protocols like HTTPS, TLS, SSL, SSH, and MFA.
Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
Bachelor's degree and 1+ years of experience with software development, DevSecOps, or cyber automation, or 5+ years of experience in those fields in lieu of a degree.
Experience automating cybersecurity workflows while applying least privilege, secrets management, and DoD or IC security principles (preferred).