Cybersecurity Software Engineer, Mid

Cybersecurity Software Engineer, Mid

The Opportunity: 

Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your experience in cybersecurity and software engineering that will safeguard our nation? As a systems security & network security engineer, you can identify the tools and applications needed to assess vulnerabilities and recommend the best solution and security strategy. We need your experience to develop and implement security solutions that will protect our military. 

On our team, you’ll troubleshoot and analyze complex challenges for customers using your knowledge of software applications and tools. You’ll use your curiosity for technology and market trends to further research and develop security solutions. Using your experience in software development, you’ll help assess security threats and implement infrastructure controls.  

In this role, you’ll closely impact our Navy's mission-critical networks by securing our infrastructure. With mentoring, challenging hands-on problem-solving, and opportunities to learn new tools and skills, we focus on growing as a team to make the best solutions for our customers.  

Work with us as we secure and protect our Navy for the better. 

What You’ll Work On: 

• Develop relationships quickly and easily with other teams, communicating the complexities of security with a wide variety of audiences, including senior management. 

• Implement infrastructure and cyber security controls, including enhanced detection and vulnerability capabilities and improved event correlation in large enterprises.  

• Perform risk and vulnerability assessments in network, system, and application areas and leverage big data analytics and traditional security event types to identify advanced threats or indicators of compromise.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:   

• 4+ years of experience using Ansible to automate tasks, including Security Requirements Guide (SRG) and Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) requirements to harden operating systems, consumer-off-the-shelf (COTS), and Open Source products to incorporate them into the system code base

• 4+ years of experience with application transport and working with container orchestration platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Docker

• Experience with Linux, Python, Robot Framework, Jenkins, Bitbucket and Git, Visual Studio Code, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Elasticsearch

• Experience working in a highly collaborative and agile software development environment, using tools for documentation and issue tracking, including Confluence and JIRA

• Experience with researching, analyzing, installing, and testing software updates and security patches, troubleshooting software code issues, and reporting findings

• Knowledge of developing well-designed, testable, and efficient code that meets technical requirements and assist with code review, troubleshooting code defects, reporting findings, and developing and deploying fixes

• Ability to work individually and on a collaborative team, to investigate and resolve issues that span multiple applications or technologies and require involvement from technical personnel across multiple organizations

• Secret clearance

• HS diploma or GED

• DoD 8140 IAT II Certification, including CompTIA Security+

Nice If You Have:   

• Experience with application development and application integration

• Experience with DevSecOps and the tools and development that accelerate software

• Experience with platform-as-a-service (PaaS)

• Experience with requirements identification, engaging with stakeholders, and roadmapping new capabilities

• Experience with analyzing technical and policy documentation for DoD organizations and implementing DoD directives

• Knowledge of systems architecture, systems engineering, interoperability, and digitalization of information technology

• Top Secret clearance

• Bachelor’s degree

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 performanc