Cloud Security Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton
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This role pays more than 63% of similar roles. Most pay $151,231–$213,125 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $185k versus about $182k 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 789 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $86,800–$198,000 across 766 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 while solving problems in government cybersecurity environments such as SOC, SIEM operations, or defensive cyber. The role involves managing Elasticsearch index lifecycle policies, data streams, and Kibana dashboards for security operations. Key responsibilities include designing log ingestion pipelines for parsing and normalizing heterogeneous sources like network, endpoint, identity, and cloud data into the Elastic Common Schema. The candidate will utilize technologies including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Fleet, and ES|QL or EQL for threat hunting. Technical skills required include experience with AWS platform optimizations, AI/ML concepts for anomaly detection, and potentially Python, scikit-learn, and PyTorch. Candidates must possess a Secret clearance and expertise in managing security detection rules, alert workflows, and large-scale agent fleet management.
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