Cyber Automation Engineer at Booz Allen in McLean, VA

Job description

• As a Cyber Automation Engineer, you know how to leverage DevSecOps principles to automate complex cyber activities and streamline security operations. We’re looking for a security-focused automation engineer like you to incorporate open-source tools, cloud resources, and continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) to reduce manual effort across the cyber mission and strengthen automated defense and response.
• You’ll work to automate critical cybersecurity workflows, including vulnerability scanning, patch orchestration, continuous monitoring, and repetitive SOC tasks. You’ll sharpen your skills within a DevSecOps framework to embed security metrics directly into delivery platforms, implement software supply chain risk management, and protect deployment paths.
• Whether engineering API integrations between modern security tools, scripting automated playbooks, or hardening cloud-native environments, here you’ll help support innovative tech projects by ensuring the environments are in compliance with enterprise standards and secure to ensure risk is minimized.
• Join us. The world can't wait.

Responsibilities

• Leverage DevSecOps principles to automate complex cyber activities and streamline security operations
• Incorporate open-source tools, cloud resources, and continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) to reduce manual effort across the cyber mission and strengthen automated defense and response
• Automate critical cybersecurity workflows, including vulnerability scanning, patch orchestration, continuous monitoring, and repetitive SOC tasks
• Embed security metrics directly into delivery platforms, implement software supply chain risk management, and protect deployment paths
• Engineer API integrations between modern security tools, script automated playbooks, and harden cloud-native environments
• Ensure environments are in compliance with enterprise standards and secure to minimize risk

Requirements

• Experience with Linux, Windows Server, and MacOS
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Crowdstrike, Splunk, or ServiceNow
• Experience with Chainguard images or hardened container base images for supply chain security
• Experience with artifact and container registries such as Sonatype Nexus and JFrog Artifactory for image storage and dependency management
• 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
• Experience with GitHub DevSecOps workflows, including Actions and CI security jobs, branch protection, CODEOWNERS, required reviews, secret scanning, and Dependabot
• Experience securing cloud-native delivery platforms such as AWS, Docker, or Kubernetes used by development teams, including admission controls and network policies
• Experience with identity and access management, including secure communication protocols, HTTPS, TLS, SSL, SSH, SSO, MFA, RBAC, and identity federation
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree and 1+ years of experience with software development, DevSecOps, or cyber automation or 5+ years of experience with software development, DevSecOps, or cyber automation in lieu of a degree
• Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
• Experience automating cybersecurity workflows while applying least privilege, secrets management, and DoD or IC security principles

Skills

Required

• Linux
• Windows Server
• MacOS
• Crowdstrike
• Splunk
• ServiceNow
• Chainguard images
• Sonatype Nexus
• JFrog Artifactory
• SAST
• DAST
• SCA

Preferred

• Least privilege
• Secrets management
• DoD or IC security principles

Benefits

• 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 $86,800.00 to $198,000.00 (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.