Cybersecurity Engineering Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton•Washington, DC

1d•$69,400 - $158,000•Remote

About The Position

Cybersecurity Engineering Lead The Opportunity: To achieve an organization’s mission, leaders need strong team members who can lead activities to maintain and improve cybersecurity products, provide expert guidance, and implement cybersecurity solutions. Whether completing an immediate task, recognizing a process gap, recommending a solution, or flexing to support an immerging requirement, our clients need a specialist who can help manage operations while managing responses to external inquiries in a timely manner. That is why we need an experienced Cybersecurity Engineering Lead like you who can integrate applicable cybersecurity requirements into ARPA-H programs and evaluate performer implementation of those requirements. As part of our team, you'll serve as a strategic technical advisor to the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), helping conceptualize, create, and execute advanced government-funded research and development programs to accelerate better health outcomes for everyone. You’ll work with world-class scientists and engineers to support the development of high-impact solutions to society's most challenging health problems, and leverage technical expertise to provide strategic assessments of new technologies in support to senior ARPA-H decision makers. You’ll also maintain responsibility for producing and presenting findings and recommendations to a team of colleagues and clients on the feasibility and potential impact of future research programs, assisting with the management of current programs, and facilitating commercialization of successfully developed technologies. You'll serve as a Cybersecurity Engineering Lead helping clients to maintain and improve our client’s cybersecurity product stack and new business processes, and provide guidance and recommendations on best practices. Your attention to detail, flexibility, communication skills, understanding of the client's mission, and problem-solving will enable the mission's success. What You’ll Work On: Lead hands-on activities to maintain and improve the ARPA-H cybersecurity product stack, including SIEM, XDR, DLP, and GRC. Implement agentic solutions to improve automation of cybersecurity operations and governance activities. Provide expert guidance and recommendations to ARPA-H on optimizing products for securing and defending the agency in the current threat environment. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

5+ years of experience with cybersecurity
Experience with the implementation of agentic AI solutions
Experience with cybersecurity engineering
Experience with NIST cybersecurity requirements
Experience interacting and communicating with senior-level executives, including SES or GS-15
Experience using Microsoft Office programs such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
Bachelor’s degree

Nice To Haves

Ability to operate independently within a fast-paced start-up environment
Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
CISSP or CISM Certification

Responsibilities

Lead hands-on activities to maintain and improve the ARPA-H cybersecurity product stack, including SIEM, XDR, DLP, and GRC.
Implement agentic solutions to improve automation of cybersecurity operations and governance activities.
Provide expert guidance and recommendations to ARPA-H on optimizing products for securing and defending the agency in the current threat environment.
Integrate applicable cybersecurity requirements into ARPA-H programs.
Evaluate performer implementation of cybersecurity requirements.
Serve as a strategic technical advisor to ARPA-H.
Conceptualize, create, and execute advanced government-funded research and development programs.
Work with scientists and engineers to support the development of high-impact solutions.
Leverage technical expertise to provide strategic assessments of new technologies.
Produce and present findings and recommendations on the feasibility and potential impact of future research programs.
Assist with the management of current programs.
Facilitate commercialization of successfully developed technologies.
Help clients maintain and improve their cybersecurity product stack and new business processes.
Provide guidance and recommendations on best practices.