Security Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton

Actively hiring
Annapolis Junction, MD Posted 16 days ago $112,800–$257,000 / year
View original post Log in to save

At a glance

AI generated

TL;DR

Join our dynamic cybersecurity team as a Security Engineer with 6+ years of experience in administering the Elastic Stack and managing large-scale security operations. You will design and deploy firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and encryption protocols while conducting regular penetration tests to identify system weaknesses. Your day-to-day responsibilities include implementing Identity and Access Management policies, leading technical responses to breaches, and creating company-wide security standards. Utilize your expertise in Elastic Security detection rules, alerts, and case management workflows to manage infrastructure cybersecurity controls and perform risk assessments. This role requires a Secret clearance and experience working in DoD or federal cybersecurity environments such as SOC operations. Bonus points for knowledge of SOAR automation, ML jobs within Elastic, and AI/ML concepts applied to security analytics.

Skills

Elasticsearch Kibana Logstash Beats Fleet ES QL EQL Elastic Security SOAR n8n XSOAR Elastic transforms runtime fields RAG architectures vector search Python scikit-learn PyTorch AI/ML concepts

What you'll do

  • Design and deploy firewalls, IDS/IPS, and encryption protocols to protect organizational data.
  • Conduct regular penetration tests and security audits to identify and patch system weaknesses.
  • Implement Identity and Access Management policies to control access to sensitive company data.
  • Lead technical response to security breaches, including digital forensics and damage mitigation.
  • Create and enforce company-wide security standards for password management and data classification.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years of experience administering Elastic Stack components.
  • Expertise in designing and managing log ingestion pipelines at scale.
  • Experience with Elastic Security detection rules, alerts, and case management.
  • Knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM) implementation.
  • Secret clearance required; TS/SCI clearance preferred.

Market check

Salary context

This $112,800–$257,000 range sits above 78% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$110,020–$201,100

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$142,400–$184,325

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

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 627 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $86,800–$198,000 across 614 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Booz Allen Hamilton

More like this

Similar roles

Technical Security Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton

US 23 days ago $99,000–$225,000
NIST SP 800-53 RMF RHEL Red Hat Enterprise Linux Rocky Git SCAP ACAS Tenable Splunk Linux firewalls Linux RPMs networking configuration DNS TCP/IP firewalls VLANs routing VPN

Security Systems Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton

Locations Atlanta, Georgia, US 11 days ago $69,300–$158,000
Armis Elastic Stack Bash Perl JavaScript Python CI/CD Kubernetes Docker AWS Azure Google Cloud Platform Terraform Ansible PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis Git Jenkins Prometheus Grafana Splunk SIEM Nmap Wireshark

Security Engineer

Adobe

Seattle, US 54 days ago $180,600–$261,450
Entra ID AD Okta SailPoint Zero Trust RBAC ABAC M365 Slack GitHub Workday Google Python PowerShell Terraform Teleport Vault SPIFFE SPIRE CI/CD

Security Engineer

Leidos

9615 Ashburn Va Non-Specific Customer Site, US 25 days ago $69,550–$125,725
AWS Linux Python Ansible Networking VPN DNS DHCP VPCs Firewalls Splunk EC2 S3 Lambda Storage Gateways CentOS RHEL Kali Linux Rocky Linux Windows McAfee CrowdStrike CI/CD

Security Engineer

Leidos

3400 Reston Va Headquarters, US 11 days ago $131,300–$237,350
AWS Azure DISA_STIGs Nessus Splunk PRTG Trellix_Endpoint_Security ePolicy_Orchestrator CI/CD Agile Linux RHEL Windows Python SQL PostgreSQL Active_Directory Network_Monitoring SIEM Threat_Modeling OWASP Microsoft_Threat_Modeling_Tool NIST_RMF Red_Hat_OpenShift Kubernetes Terraform

Security Engineer II

Endeavor Health

Nso 4901 Searle Parkway Corporate Office Skokie, US 49 days ago
HIPAA NIST PCI Kubernetes AWS Terraform Python SQL PostgreSQL Docker CI/CD Git Splunk SIEM CyberArk RSA Archer CISCO ASA Check Point RADAR Qualys Microsoft 365 Cisco Umbrella