Cyber Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton•McLean, MD

3d•Onsite

About The Position

As a cyber mission specialist, you understand the value of hunt-forward operations, and you know that battles are won in the grey. At Booz Allen, you can use your cyberspace operations experience to create solutions that will be executed on a worldwide stage. We’re looking for an experienced cyber mission specialist like you to apply your knowledge in emerging threat monitoring and analysis, incident response, and risk assessments to impact our nation’s defenses. In this role, you’ll be counted on to understand cyberspace capabilities to evaluate potential weaknesses as well as the effectiveness of mitigations for cyber security solutions. This is an opportunity to use your research and analysis abilities to adequately assess and inform operators, senior leadership, and commanders on dynamic adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures. If you want to be in the fight–working shoulder to shoulder with the lager mission team–influencing global cyber missions, this is the opportunity for you. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

7+ years of experience performing cybersecurity analysis for Federal or DoW systems
5+ years of experience conducting incident response, security event and log analysis, threat detection, vulnerability analysis, or cybersecurity assessments
Experience supporting RMF, NIST 800‑53, and continuous monitoring across multi‑site cyber operations
Experience analyzing cybersecurity events and identifying threats, vulnerabilities, indicators of compromise (IOCs), and potential security incidents
Experience with enterprise cybersecurity tools for security monitoring, log analysis, vulnerability management, endpoint security, or threat detection
Experience supporting incident investigation, containment, remediation, and recovery activities
Experience documenting findings, risk, mitigation recommendations, and cybersecurity status for technical and non-technical stakeholders
Secret clearance
Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or Information Technology
Security + Certification

Nice To Haves

Experience with enterprise cybersecurity tools and operations, including SIEM, EDR or XDR, vulnerability management, threat hunting, incident response, cybersecurity assessments, and security monitoring across DoW or other Federal environments
CompTIA CySA+ Certification
CISSP Certification
SecurityX or CASP+ Certification
GIAC Certification
Other DoW 8140 Cybersecurity Certifications

Responsibilities

Perform cybersecurity analysis for Federal or DoW systems
Conduct incident response, security event and log analysis, threat detection, vulnerability analysis, or cybersecurity assessments
Support RMF, NIST 800‑53, and continuous monitoring across multi‑site cyber operations
Analyze cybersecurity events and identify threats, vulnerabilities, indicators of compromise (IOCs), and potential security incidents
Use enterprise cybersecurity tools for security monitoring, log analysis, vulnerability management, endpoint security, or threat detection
Support incident investigation, containment, remediation, and recovery activities
Document findings, risk, mitigation recommendations, and cybersecurity status for technical and non-technical stakeholders