Cloud SOC Analyst

Booz Allen Hamilton; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life benefits

Disability benefits

Financial benefits

Retirement benefits

Paid leave

Professional development

Tuition assistance

Work-life programs

Dependent care

Recognition awards program

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Cloud SOC Analyst to monitor and respond to cloud threats in support of the United States Air Force. You will operate in a fast-paced SOC, analyze incidents, and coordinate remediation across multi-cloud environments.

Applicants should have 4+ years in SOC/cybersecurity, 3+ years with cloud SIEM (Splunk) or SOAR, a Bachelor's degree, Secret clearance, and the ability to obtain DoD 8570 IAT II (Security+) within 60 days.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in SOC operations or cybersecurity in cloud or hybrid environments.
• 3+ years with cloud SIEM or SOAR platforms such as Splunk.
• Experience with incident response tasks and remediation of security incidents.
• Knowledge of basic IT forensics.
• Secret clearance.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Ability to obtain DoD 8570 IAT II Certification, including Security+, within 60 days of start date.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze threats in a high-impact SOC environment.
• Analyze incidents to determine affected systems and support recovery efforts.
• Mitigate threats and coordinate with teams to implement rapid remediation.
• Combine threat intelligence with event data and telemetry to identify attack patterns.
• Translate customer needs and support migration and solutioning of mission-critical capabilities.

Skills

Cloud SOC

Cloud SIEM

Incident Response

Forensics

Security+

DoD 8570 IAT II

Secret Clearance

Bachelor's Degree

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Splunk

Job description

Job Number: R0246278

Cloud SOC Analyst

The Opportunity:

Are you looking for an opportunity to leverage your Cloud Security expertise in a high impact role? Booz Allen has an opportunity to showcase your talents by supporting the United States Air Force. Cloud threats move faster than traditional security operations—and organizations increasingly rely on resilient, intelligence-driven cloud defenses.

As a Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst on our team, you’ll monitor and analyze threats, using state-of-the-art tools. You’ll work with the team to understand, mitigate, and respond to threats quickly, restoring operations and limiting the impact. You’ll analyze incidents to figure out just how many systems are affected and assist recovery efforts. You’ll combine threat intelligence, event data, and assessments fromrecentevents, and identify patterns to understand attackers’ goals to stop them from succeeding. You should thrive in a fast-paced environment, be able to translate customer needs, and assist others in migration and solutioning of mission critical capabilities. Work with us as we secure our client from malicious actors. Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

• 4+ years of experience as part of a SOC operations or cybersecurity team within cloud or hybrid environments
• 3+ years of experience with cloud SIEM or SOAR platforms, such as Splunk, and multi-cloud telemetry pipelines
• Experience with incident response tasks, such as step identification within the IR process, remediation of security incidents that could have potential impact, and ongoing investigations
• Knowledge of basic IT forensics
• Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree
• Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT II Certification, including Security+, within 60 days of start date

Nice If You Have:

• Experience designing or hardening cloud environments across AWS, Azure, OCI, and GCP
• Experience with cloud automation, such as IaC, serverless security controls, or automated response pipelines
• Experience with vulnerability management and dynamic or static code analysis
• Top Secret clearance
• CISSP, CCSP, GCIH, or cloud security equivalent certification

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required.

Compensation:

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. 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. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

• health benefits
• life benefits
• disability benefits
• financial benefits
• retirement benefits
• paid leave
• professional development
• tuition assistance
• work-life programs
• dependent care
• recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values.

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.

Candidate AI Usage Policy:

AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model:

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.
• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.