Remote SecOps Engineer: Cloud Security & Automation

Booz Allen Hamilton; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 87,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is hiring a SecOps Engineer to install and manage systems on cloud infrastructure, ensuring availability and applying patches to strengthen security. The role welcomes backgrounds in network engineering, systems administration, or software development and emphasizes building secure, automated platforms.

Responsibilities include security automation, CI/CD integration, threat analysis, vulnerability management, and compliance with standards like NIST and ISO.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with RHEL systems administration.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain security automation, tooling, and integrations to improve detection and response times.
• Collaborate with DevOps, IT, and Engineering teams to embed security into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure.
• Conduct log analysis, threat hunting, and forensic investigations as needed.
• Manage and optimize vulnerability management platforms.
• Support security compliance initiatives such as NIST, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, and SOC 2.
• Assist in building, testing, deploying and refining operational images used to build out computational instances.
• Continuously evaluate emerging threats and recommend enhancements to protections and monitoring.

Skills

RHEL administration

Infrastructure as Code (Ansible/Terraf

AWS

Kubernetes

Security baselines (DoD STIGs/CIS)

Vulnerability management

Clearance TS/SCI w/ polygraph

Security certifications (Security+ /SS

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 5+ years patching Linux / cloud apps OR 9+ years patching Linux / cloud apps in lieu of degree

Tools

Jenkins

Packer

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is hiring a SecOps Engineer to install and manage systems on cloud infrastructure, ensuring availability and applying patches to strengthen security. The role welcomes backgrounds in network engineering, systems administration, or software development and emphasizes building secure, automated platforms.

Responsibilities include security automation, CI/CD integration, threat analysis, vulnerability management, and compliance with standards like NIST and ISO.