Information Security Risk Specialist

Booz Allen Hamilton; Maryland; On-site; USD 99,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking an Information Security Risk Specialist to help senior leaders discover cyber risks, interpret policies, and develop mitigation plans. You will review technical and personnel details from tenants to assess the threat landscape and guide teams through action milestones.

You'll collaborate with cloud architects, cybersecurity, GRC, networking, and platform engineering to make controls repeatable and ensure users understand responsibilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience securing, hardening, and remediating security vulnerabilities in AWS GovCloud.
• Experience with CMMC, NIST 800-171, DoD security controls, FedRAMP, defense SRG, or cloud security frameworks.
• Experience with cloud networking, routing, segmentation, firewalls, private connectivity, DNS, and network security controls.
• Experience with control inheritance, SSP generation, evidence mapping, or authorization package support.
• Knowledge of AWS organizations, organizational units, service control policies, identity, account governance, and cloud security baselines.
• Ability to translate policy to both senior stakeholders and operations teams who need to implement the controls.
• Public Trust.

Responsibilities

• Identify cyber risks and develop mitigation plans with senior leaders.
• Review technical and personnel details from tenants to assess threat landscape.
• Develop action plans with presentations, whitepapers, and milestones.
• Collaborate with cloud architects, cybersecurity teams, GRC, networking, platform engineering, and tenant teams.
• Ensure that security controls are repeatable and understandable for users and that responsibilities are clear.

Skills

5+ years AWS GovCloud security

CMMC/NIST 800-171/DoD security

Cloud networking and network security

Control inheritance and SSP support

AWS orgs and SCPs knowledge

Policy translation to stakeholders

Public Trust

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CDK

AWS Security Hub

GuardDuty

Config

CloudTrail

Network Firewall

Transit Gateway

Job description

Join a culture of empowerment and connectivity.

Develop your craft

Learn the skills you need to accelerate your career.

Discover benefits that support your life and work.

Innovate with intention

Build mission-ready tech that protects the nation.

Cyber threats are everywhere, and the constantly evolving nature of these threats can make understanding them seem overwhelming. In all of this “cyber noise” how can these organizations understand their risks and how to mitigate them? The answer is an information security risk specialist like you who will break down complex threats into manageable plans of action.

As an information security risk specialist on our team, you’ll use your experience to work with senior leaders to discover their cyber risks, understand applicable policies, and develop a mitigation plan. You’ll review technical and personnel details from our tenants to assess the entire threat landscape. Then, you’ll guide our tenants through a plan of action with presentations, whitepapers, and milestones.

You’ll work with cloud architects, cybersecurity teams, GRC, networking, platform engineering, and tenant teams to make security controls repeatable and usable. You’ll help ensure that users receive the right platform, understand the controls they inherit, and know what remains their responsibility.

This is your opportunity to apply cloud-security expertise while expanding your skills in secure platform engineering, AWS GovCloud, IL5 environments, Infrastructure-as-Code, control inheritance, and enterprise-scale cloud transformation.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience securing, hardening, and remediating security vulnerabilities in AWS GovCloud
• Experience with CMMC, NIST 800-171, DoD security controls, FedRAMP, defense SRG, or cloud security frameworks
• Experience with cloud networking, routing, segmentation, firewalls, private connectivity, DNS, and network security controls
• Experience with control inheritance, SSP generation, evidence mapping, or authorization package support
• Knowledge of AWS organizations, organizational units, service control policies, identity, account governance, and cloud security baselines
• Ability to translate policy to both senior stakeholders and operations teams who need to implement the controls
• Public Trust

Nice If You Have:

• Experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or comparable technologies
• Experience deploying secure landing zones, shared services, platform baselines, or multi-account cloud architectures
• Experience with AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Config, CloudTrail, Network Firewall, Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, Splunk, Tenable, F5, or comparable technologies
• Experience supporting cloud migrations, tenant onboarding, account adoption, network-path validation, or platform-parity initiatives
• Knowledge of IAM Identity Center, federation, Keycloak, Entra ID, privileged access, and identity-boundary design
• Possession of excellent detail-oriented, organization, and time management skills
• Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
• CISSP, CCSP, Security+, AWS Security Specialty, CISM, or equivalent Certification

Vetting:

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

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.

Information Security Risk Specialist

The Opportunity:

Cyber threats are everywhere, and the constantly evolving nature of these threats can make understanding them seem overwhelming. In all of this “cyber noise” how can these organizations understand their risks and how to mitigate them? The answer is an information security risk specialist like you who will break down complex threats into manageable plans of action.

As an information security risk specialist on our team, you’ll use your experience to work with senior leaders to discover their cyber risks, understand applicable policies, and develop a mitigation plan. You’ll review technical and personnel details from our tenants to assess the entire threat landscape. Then, you’ll guide our tenants through a plan of action with presentations, whitepapers, and milestones.

You’ll work with cloud architects, cybersecurity teams, GRC, networking, platform engineering, and tenant teams to make security controls repeatable and usable. You’ll help ensure that users receive the right platform, understand the controls they inherit, and know what remains their responsibility.

This is your opportunity to apply cloud-security expertise while expanding your skills in secure platform engineering, AWS GovCloud, IL5 environments, Infrastructure-as-Code, control inheritance, and enterprise-scale cloud transformation.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience securing, hardening, and remediating security vulnerabilities in AWS GovCloud
• Experience with CMMC, NIST 800-171, DoD security controls, FedRAMP, defense SRG, or cloud security frameworks
• Experience with cloud networking, routing, segmentation, firewalls, private connectivity, DNS, and network security controls
• Experience with control inheritance, SSP generation, evidence mapping, or authorization package support
• Knowledge of AWS organizations, organizational units, service control policies, identity, account governance, and cloud security baselines
• Ability to translate policy to both senior stakeholders and operations teams who need to implement the controls
• Public Trust
• Bachelor's degree

Nice If You Have:

• Experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or comparable technologies
• Experience deploying secure landing zones, shared services, platform baselines, or multi-account cloud architectures
• Experience with AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Config, CloudTrail, Network Firewall, Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, Splunk, Tenable, F5, or comparable technologies
• Experience supporting cloud migrations, tenant onboarding, account adoption, network-path validation, or platform-parity initiatives
• Knowledge of IAM Identity Center, federation, Keycloak, Entra ID, privileged access, and identity-boundary design
• Possession of excellent detail-oriented, organization, and time management skills
• Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
• CISSP, CCSP, Security+, AWS Security Specialty, CISM, or equivalent Certification

Vetting:

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

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
Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

• 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 or customer facility, in alignment with your leadership's expectations and the needs of the role.
• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed full-time at a 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.