Zero Trust Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 62,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Zero Trust Engineer in the San Diego area to design and implement zero-trust architectures and secure federal assets.

In this role you will work on enterprise security architecture, IAM, data protection, and endpoint security, ensuring DoD/C2C compliance and maintaining complex system configurations. A Secret clearance is required to progress.

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise security architecture and DoD/C2C requirements.
• Ability to develop and maintain configuration management of complex systems.
• Secret clearance is required.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement zero-trust architectures and related solutions.
• Evaluate and modernize large-scale cybersecurity systems for federal assets.
• Support identity and access management, data protection, and endpoint security.

Skills

Enterprise security

Forescout / Cisco ISE

DoD / C2C compliance

Configuration management

Secret clearance

HS diploma or GED

Education

HS diploma or GED

Tools

Forescout

Cisco ISE

Job description

Zero Trust Engineer

The Opportunity: Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big-picture thinking to make an impact on national security? You understand your customer’s environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications makes you an integral part of delivering a customer-focused engineering solution. As a systems engineer on our team, you have the chance to design a varied set of cybersecurity solutions in support of defending our nation's critical infrastructure and federal assets. Your technical expertise will be vital as you evaluate and modernize large-scale cybersecurity systems. You’ll develop your skills in identity and access management, data protection, endpoint detection and response, advanced cyber analytics, and more while gaining experience in national cyber defense. Grow your skills by merging systems engineering and endpoint security with cyber architecture and engineering design to create zero-trust architectures and solutions. Join our team and help turn requirements into accomplishments that drive change. Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

• Experience with enterprise security architecture
• Experience with Forescout or Cisco ISE
• Knowledge of DoD and Gov Comply to Connect (C2C) requirements
• Ability to develop and maintain configuration management of complex system configurations
• Secret clearance
• HS diploma or GED

Nice If You Have:

• Experience with Zero Trust Architectures (ZTA) and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
• Experience with Elastic tools, including Filebeat, Elasticsearch, or Kibana
• Experience with implementing solutions in classified spaces
• Experience with DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs)
• Knowledge of mobile endpoint security concepts and tools, including MDM or MTD solutions, MobileIron, Intune, Workspace ONE, Lookout, MS Defender, or Zimperium
• Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Security+ Certification

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance 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 $61,900.00 to $141,000.00 (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

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Work Model

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