Cloud Security Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton

. Integrate commercial cloud environments with agency enterprise services and security-monitoring architectures .

Posted 9/23/2026full-timeReston • Virginia • United StatesSeniorLead💰 $86,800 - $198,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in cloud security engineering, focusing on the design, deployment, and operation of OCI solutions. Proficient in integrating security telemetry with enterprise systems and ensuring compliance in classified environments.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Cloud Security EngineeringOCI Solutions Design and DeploymentSIEM Integration and TroubleshootingLog-Collection Architecture DesignActive TS/SCI Clearance

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Hard Skills

Cloud SecurityOCI SolutionsTelemetry ConfigurationLog ValidationSIEM IntegrationTroubleshootingAPI IntegrationEvent StreamingData NormalizationField Mapping

Soft Skills

CollaborationStakeholder CommunicationProblem Solving

Tools & Technologies

CriblElasticTerraformOCI Resource ManagerAPIsSyslogMessage QueuesObject Storage

Certifications & Qualifications

OCI Certifications

Industry Keywords

CybersecuritySecurity ArchitectureClassified EnvironmentsRegulated EnvironmentsAuthorization Packages

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudCyber SecurityFirewallsTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Integrate commercial cloud environments with agency enterprise services and security-monitoring architectures
Design, deploy, secure, and operate OCI solutions involving IAM, Audit, Logging, Cloud Guard, network security, secrets, and key management
Integrate OCI audit, logging, monitoring, and security telemetry with enterprise SIEM and monitoring platforms
Configure audit and telemetry sources across cloud, network, platform, operating system, database, and application layers
Design secure log-collection and forwarding architectures using APIs, agents, syslog, event streaming, object storage, message queues, or comparable mechanisms
Validate log completeness, timeliness, integrity, retention, access restrictions, parsing, normalization, and monitoring coverage
Troubleshoot SIEM integration issues involving connectivity, ingestion, certificates, proxies, firewalls, field mapping, alerting, and dashboards
Develop architecture diagrams, integration designs, test plans, dashboards, runbooks, and stakeholder communications
Collaborate with engineering, security, infrastructure, operations, and customer stakeholders
Support secure cloud onboarding, authorization, and long-term operations

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of experience in cloud security engineering, cybersecurity, or security architecture
Experience integrating commercial cloud environments with agency-specific enterprise services and identity architectures
Experience designing, deploying, securing, and operating OCI solutions
Experience integrating cloud audit, logging, monitoring, and security telemetry with enterprise SIEM and monitoring platforms
Experience configuring telemetry sources across cloud, network, platform, operating system, database, and application layers
Experience designing secure log-collection and forwarding architectures using APIs, agents, syslog, event streaming, object storage, message queues, or comparable technologies
Experience validating log completeness, integrity, retention, access restrictions, parsing, normalization, and monitoring coverage
Experience troubleshooting SIEM integration issues and remediating monitoring gaps, ingestion failures, field-mapping problems, and alert noise
Active TS/SCI clearance
Willingness to take a polygraph exam
Bachelor’s degree
Experience with Cribl and Elastic is nice to have
Experience supporting authorization packages, control validation, or remediation tracking is nice to have
Experience with Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, or comparable automated cloud configuration tools is nice to have
Experience supporting cloud security operations in classified, regulated, or other mission environments is nice to have
Associate- or Professional-level OCI Certifications are nice to have
Applicants selected are subject to a security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information
AI or other tools may not be used to assist with interview responses unless permission is explicitly provided

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health benefits
Life insurance
Disability benefits
Financial benefits
Retirement benefits
Paid leave
Professional development
Tuition assistance
Work-life programs
Dependent care
Recognition awards for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of company values
Identity verification process and fraud protection
Camera-on expectation support for virtual meeting collaboration