Senior Cyber Platform Engineer - AI-Driven & Cloud-Native

Booz Allen Hamilton; Maryland; On-site; USD 87,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build software for cyber operations across production systems used by operators, analysts, and cyber experts today.

You will move across the stack—from back-end services and data workflows to automation, containers, and cloud infrastructure—solving ambiguous problems with practical tradeoffs. This role emphasizes delivering measurable impact and advancing cyber capabilities.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of production software engineering experience.
• 3+ years backend services, APIs, data workflows, or platform components with Python.
• 2+ years Docker or Kubernetes, containers, and reproducible workflows.
• 2+ years cloud platforms such as AWS.
• 2+ years designing or operating production systems with databases, APIs, queues, caches, or distributed patterns.
• 2+ years owning technical delivery for a feature, service, product area, or engineering workstream.
• Top Secret clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Computer Engineering, or Information Systems.

Responsibilities

• Build software for cyber operators, analysts, and cyber experts.
• Develop across backend services, data systems, and user-facing tools.
• Improve reliability, observability, and scalability at enterprise scale.
• Apply AI, analytics, and decision-support to reduce analyst burden.

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/ Computer Engineering/ Information Systems

Tools

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

APIs

Databases

Distributed Systems

DevOps

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build software for cyber operations across production systems used by operators, analysts, and cyber experts today.

You will move across the stack—from back-end services and data workflows to automation, containers, and cloud infrastructure—solving ambiguous problems with practical tradeoffs. This role emphasizes delivering measurable impact and advancing cyber capabilities.