Zero-Trust Security Engineer: Cloud Automation & Compliance

Booz Allen Hamilton; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 99,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton in Fort Meade, MD is seeking a Virtru Security Engineer to support zero-trust security across networks with multiple classifications. You will lead infrastructure-as-code initiatives, develop security automation for CI/CD pipelines, and perform risk assessments of cloud infrastructure and applications.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineering teams, security reviews, and maintaining security monitoring and documentation to strengthen enterprise defenses.

Qualifications

• 3+ years designing, deploying, and configuring data security solutions.
• Experience with data-centric security models, including maintenance.
• Experience designing, implementing, configuring, operating, or testing IT systems or security infrastructure.
• Experience with data tagging and classification.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust principles and solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead security compliance initiatives and automation of control validation across cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or Ansible).
• Develop and maintain security monitoring solutions and respond to security events.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to implement security controls without slowing velocity.
• Create security documentation, training, and guidelines for engineering teams.

Skills

Data security

Zero Trust

Security compliance

Automation

Infrastructure as Code

Education

HS diploma or GED

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Go

Python

Node.js

CNAP

SIEM

CSPM

CWPP

Varonis

BigID

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton in Fort Meade, MD is seeking a Virtru Security Engineer to support zero-trust security across networks with multiple classifications. You will lead infrastructure-as-code initiatives, develop security automation for CI/CD pipelines, and perform risk assessments of cloud infrastructure and applications.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineering teams, security reviews, and maintaining security monitoring and documentation to strengthen enterprise defenses.