Security Automation Engineer - DevSecOps

Energy Jobline ZR; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 87,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Cyber Automation Engineer to advance security automation across CI/CD, cloud environments, and security operations. You will automate workflows for vulnerability scanning, patching, and continuous monitoring within a DevSecOps framework, integrating open-source tools and cloud resources.

You will work on API integrations, automated playbooks, and enforcing enterprise security standards to minimize risk and improve automated defense and response capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experience with Linux, Windows Server, and MacOS.
• 2
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Crowdstrike, Splunk, or ServiceNow.
• 3
• Experience with Chainguard images or hardened container base images for supply chain security.
• 4
• Experience with artifact and container registries such as Nexus and Artifactory for image storage and dependency management.
• 5
• Experience embedding security into CI/CD pipelines such as shift-left, including SAST, DAST, and SCA, infrastructure-as-code scanning, container image scanning, and policy-as-code gates.
• 6
• Experience with GitHub DevSecOps workflows, including Actions and CI security jobs, branch protection, CODEOWNERS, required reviews, secret scanning, and Dependabot.
• 7
• Experience securing cloud-delivery platforms such as AWS, Docker, or Kubernetes used by development teams, including admission controls and network policies.
• 8
• Experience with and access management, including secure communication protocols, HTTPS, TLS, SSL, SSH, SSO, MFA, RBAC, and federation.
• 9
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
• 10
• Degree plus 1+ years of software development, DevSecOps, or cyber automation, or 5+ years without a degree.

Responsibilities

• Automate cybersecurity workflows, including vulnerability scanning and patch orchestration.
• Embed security into CI/CD pipelines and cloud deployments.
• Support API integrations between security tools and automate playbooks.

Skills

DevSecOps

Automation

Cybersecurity

Security metrics

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's degree

5+ years experience in lieu of degree

Tools

CrowdStrike

Splunk

ServiceNow

Chainguard images

Nexus

Artifactory

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

AWS

Docker

TLS/SSL

RBAC

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Cyber Automation Engineer to advance security automation across CI/CD, cloud environments, and security operations. You will automate workflows for vulnerability scanning, patching, and continuous monitoring within a DevSecOps framework, integrating open-source tools and cloud resources.

You will work on API integrations, automated playbooks, and enforcing enterprise security standards to minimize risk and improve automated defense and response capabilities.