Baseline Security Engineer, Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 99,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton seeks a Baseline Security Engineer, Lead to support SEC client cyber operations, building security baselines from vendor documentation and aligning them with NIST/FISMA requirements. The role emphasizes threat-informed defense, risk assessment across platforms, and collaboration with stakeholders to close security gaps against adversaries.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in IT operations security, familiarity with CIS/STIG benchmarks, NVD/CVE knowledge, and the ability to

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience supporting IT operations.
• Experience creating security baselines using CIS and STIG benchmarks.
• Experience with NIST 800-series guidance (800-30, 800-37, 800-53, 800-60, 800-63, 800-115, 800-137).
• Experience reviewing, developing, or customizing security baselines.
• Knowledge of NVD and CVE.
• Ability to translate baseline requirements into high-level FISMA/NIST requirements.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination.
• HS diploma or GED.

Skills

IT operations experience

Security baseline creation

NIST 800-series guidance

Baseline customization

NVD/CVE knowledge

Translate to high-level standards

Public Trust eligibility

HS diploma or GED

Education

HS diploma or GED

Bachelor's degree (Nice to have)

Tools

CIS benchmarks

STIG benchmarks

NIST 800-series controls

Job description

Baseline Security Engineer, Lead The Opportunity:

As a cyber professional, you know that understanding adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures is vital to producing the intelligence that enables the success of our SEC client as we support their cyber mission. At Booz Allen, you can apply your skills and broad knowledge to inform strategies and mitigate the most pressing vulnerabilities. Here, you aren’t just deciphering reports. You’re telling the story to inform our nation’s most far-reaching cybersecurity decisions. As a cyber threat specialist on our team, you’ll help customers solve problems working across cloud computing, data engineering, and enterprise workflow platforms. You’ll work alongside multiple stakeholders to evaluate system risks, analyze various NIST controls, and determine the best way to lock down systems. You’ll monitor security environments and identify security gaps through the eyes of an adversary. In this role, you’ll impact the SEC’s security posture by monitoring the various platforms for new and evolving threats and identifying security gaps before they can be accessed by a bad actor.

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience providing support to Information Technology (IT) operations
• Experience creating security baselines using CIS and STIG benchmarks
• Experience working with the NIST 800 Special Publication series guidance for risk management and security control implementation, including 800-30,800-37, 800-53, 800-60, 800-63, 800-115, or 800-137
• Experience reviewing, developing, or customizing general security configuration baselines
• Knowledge of the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and Common Vulnerability Enumeration (CVE)
• Ability to create security baselines from scratch using vendor documentation
• Ability to modify CIS and STIG benchmarks to meet organizational requirements
• Ability to translate low-level security baseline requirements into high-level FISMA and NIST requirements and client-specific security
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements
• HS diploma or GED

Nice If You Have:

• Experience with networking, including Cisco, Juniper, or Palo Alto, operating systems, including Windows Server, Red Hat, or Linux, cloud services, including AWS, Azure, Salesforce, Okta, O365, or ServiceNow, or mobile technologies, including iOS or Xen Mobile
• Experience designing, building, and implementing automation tools, including Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools, including CloudFormation or Terraform
• Experience with container platforms, including OpenShift
• Experience with chaos engineering and blue or green deployments
• Experience with serverless, including Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, and SAM
• Experience with application performance analysis and monitoring, including ELK
• Experience with JSON or YMAL programming
• Bachelor's degree
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer, CCNA, MSCE, RHCSA, EBSA, or ECSS Certification

Vetting:

Applicants selected will be subject to a government investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements of the U.S. government client.

Compensation

• Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
• Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.
• Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements.
• The projected compensation range for this position is $99,000.00 to $225,000.00 (annualized USD).
• The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees.
• This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Identity Statement

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

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