Mission Security Architect: Build Hardened Secure Systems

Booz Allen Hamilton; Lexington Park (MD); On-site; USD 87,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Mission Security Engineer to design and build secure systems for critical Navy operations. You will lead secure engineering efforts, evaluate adversary threats, and coordinate with teams to balance security and mission needs. A Secret clearance is required, with a strong background in security disciplines.

The role emphasizes secure coding, OS hardening, virtualization, and cross-domain considerations, offering a path to contribute to national security missions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with mission security methods, techniques, and systems.
• Experience analyzing requirements, testing, and evaluation in lifecycle support of systems security disciplines.
• Experience applying secure coding practices, securing operating systems, and virtualization.
• Ability to design security architectures based on adversary threat analysis and proposed countermeasures.
• Secret clearance required.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.

Responsibilities

• Design security architectures and secure systems to support critical operations.
• Coordinate with the team to identify tools and techniques to translate IT needs into secure solutions.
• Investigate new techniques and break from legacy models to align with industry directions.

Skills

Mission security

Requirements analysis

Secure coding

Security architecture design

Secret clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics

Master’s degree in Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics

Tools

Cameo

MagicDraw

Cryptographic algorithms

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Mission Security Engineer to design and build secure systems for critical Navy operations. You will lead secure engineering efforts, evaluate adversary threats, and coordinate with teams to balance security and mission needs. A Secret clearance is required, with a strong background in security disciplines.

The role emphasizes secure coding, OS hardening, virtualization, and cross-domain considerations, offering a path to contribute to national security missions.