Cloud Security Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton

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Work type
On-site
Location
Boston, MA
Salary
$112,800–$257,000 / yr
Posted
8 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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This role $185k
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This role pays more than 63% of similar roles. Most pay $145,700–$203,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $185k versus about $175k 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

Booz Allen Hamilton currently has 802 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Cloud Security Engineer

The Elastic Cloud Security Engineer designs, implements, and maintains systems and tools to automate complex cyber activities within government cybersecurity environments such as SOC, SIEM operations, or defensive cyber. The role involves managing Elasticsearch index lifecycle policies, data streams, and Kibana dashboards while building detection rules, alerts, and case management workflows. You will develop log ingestion pipelines involving parsing, enrichment, and normalization of network, endpoint, identity, and cloud sources into the Elastic Common Schema. Key technical requirements include expertise in the Elastic Stack, including Logstash, Beats, and Fleet, alongside knowledge of AI/ML concepts for anomaly detection and threat scoring. The position requires a Secret clearance and involves managing data flows across multi-classification environments. Advanced skills may include ES|QL, EQL, Python, scikit-learn, PyTorch, and Kubernetes to support advanced threat hunting and detection-as-code workflows.

What you'll do

  • Design and maintain systems and tools to automate complex cyber activities.
  • Manage Elasticsearch index lifecycle policies, templates, and data streams at scale.
  • Build Kibana dashboards, visualizations, and lens-based analytics for security operations.
  • Develop Elastic Security detection rules, alerts, and case management workflows.
  • Design log ingestion pipelines including parsing, enrichment, and normalization across diverse sources.
  • Map non-standard log sources into Elastic Common Schema (ECS) compliant fields.
  • Optimize log collections from AWS platforms, endpoints, and network devices.
  • Implement advanced threat hunting and detection-as-code workflows using ES|QL or EQL.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree required.
  • Secret clearance is required.
  • 5+ years of experience administering Elastic Stack components including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, or Fleet.
  • Experience managing Elasticsearch index lifecycle policies, templates, data streams, and building Kibana dashboards for security operations.
  • Experience with Elastic Security detection rules, alerts, and case management workflows.
  • Experience designing log ingestion pipelines involving parsing, enrichment, and normalization across various sources.
  • Experience mapping non-standard log sources into Elastic Common Schema (ECS) compliant fields.
  • Experience working in government cybersecurity environments such as SOC or SIEM operations.

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