Security Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton
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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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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.
Listed pay typically runs $86,800–$198,000 across 783 roles with salary data.
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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.
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