Endpoint Detection & Response Engineer, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton; Illinois; On-site; USD 86,800 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Professional development

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is looking for a Senior Endpoint Detection & Response Engineer to implement and optimize advanced security solutions. You will collaborate with teams to develop the right mix of tools and techniques to fulfill customer needs, ensuring a balance of security and operational efficiency.

The ideal candidate has experience with EDR solutions deployment and configuration, systems administration, and must hold a Secret clearance. The position offers competitive benefits and compensation ranging from $86,800 to $198,000 annually based on experience and education.

Qualifications

• Experience with deployment, configuration, or maintenance of EDR solutions.
• Perform systems administration and troubleshooting.
• Ability to optimize EDR solutions and integrate data.

Responsibilities

• Implementing and optimizing security solutions for customers.
• Investigating new techniques and providing customized solutions.
• Writing reports, SOPs, and technical documents.

Skills

Deployment of EDR solutions

Systems administration

EDR optimization

Content creation for deliverables

Secret clearance

Education

HS diploma or GED

Tools

Carbon Black EDR

CrowdStrike Falcon

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Splunk

Job description

Endpoint Detection & Response Engineer, Senior

The Opportunity:

As an Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Engineer, you will implement and optimize next-generation security solutions for customers. You’ll work with in‑house teams to identify the right mix of tools, techniques, and procedures to translate your customer’s needs and future goals into a plan that enables secure and effective solutions. In developing the best solutions, you will investigate new techniques, break free from legacy models, and help customers exceed industry standards. As a team, we’ll take a critical approach to solution design, identifying gaps, providing alternatives, and customizing solutions to maintain a balance of security and business needs.

You Have:

• Experience with deployment, configuration, or maintenance of supporting enterprise endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions in a customer environment, such as Carbon Black EDR, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne, FireEye HX, McAfee MVision, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE), Tanium, or Elastic Endpoint Protection
• Experience performing systems administration, including basic troubleshooting and installation, monitoring system performance or availability, performing security upgrades, and optimizing solution configurations to meet the needs of operational users
• Experience with optimization of EDR solutions, including refinement of data produced, development of automated workflows or playbooks, and integration of the EDR data with enterprise solutions, including SIEM, ITSM, and TIP solutions
• Ability to provide content on deliverables, including written reports and technical documents, SOPs and configuration guides, and training and briefing materials
• Secret clearance
• HS diploma or GED

Nice If You Have:

• Experience triaging security events in a SOC environment and leveraging data collected from enterprise security solutions
• Experience providing support in a Tier I or II IT operations and maintenance role, including ticket work information updates, issue responses, and remediation
• Knowledge of federal information security policies, standards, procedures, directives, frameworks, federal security authorizations, assessment, and risk management processes for enterprise systems
• Ability to integrate cybersecurity data using enterprise or custom data aggregation and analysis tools, including Splunk
• Ability to meet DoW 8140 requirements
• EDR Vendor 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:

Salary range: $86,800.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD). Compensation is based on location, education, experience, and other factors. The role offers benefits including health, life, disability, financial, and retirement plans, 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 are eligible for the benefit programs.

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.