Cloud Security Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton

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Work type
On-site
Location
Lexington, MA
Salary
$112,900–$257,000 / yr
Posted
2 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 $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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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

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.

What you'll do

  • Manage Elasticsearch index lifecycle policies, templates, and data streams at scale.
  • Build Kibana dashboards, visualizations, and lens-based analytics for security operations.
  • Configure Elastic Security detection rules, alerts, and case management workflows.
  • Design log ingestion pipelines including parsing, enrichment, and normalization across heterogeneous 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.
  • Integrate AI/ML models and LLMs into security workflows for anomaly detection and alert triage.

What we're looking for

  • 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, case management workflows, and the Elastic Common Schema (ECS).
  • Experience designing log ingestion pipelines including parsing, enrichment, and normalization across network, endpoint, identity, and cloud sources.
  • Experience in government cybersecurity environments such as SOC, SIEM operations, or defensive cyber.
  • Knowledge of AI/ML concepts applied to security analytics like anomaly detection and behavioral baselining.
  • Bachelor’s degree.

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