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Booz Allen Hamilton

Information Security Risk Specialist

Booz Allen Hamilton

. Discover cyber risks with senior leaders .

Posted 9/29/2026full-timeUnited StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $99,000 - $225,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in cloud security, particularly within AWS GovCloud environments, and the ability to develop and implement security controls and mitigation plans. Proficient in translating complex policies for senior stakeholders and ensuring compliance with various security frameworks.

Highest-signal resume keywords
AWS GovCloud SecurityCMMC ComplianceInfrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)Cloud Security Frameworks (NIST 800-171, FedRAMP)Public Trust Certification

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Hard Skills
Cloud NetworkingSecurity Vulnerability RemediationControl InheritanceSSP GenerationEvidence MappingAWS Security HubGuardDutyNetwork Security ControlsIAM Identity CenterMulti-Account Cloud Architectures
Soft Skills
Stakeholder CommunicationPresentation SkillsCollaboration
Tools & Technologies
SplunkTenableF5CloudTrailTransit GatewayCloud WAN
Certifications & Qualifications
CISSPCCSPSecurity+AWS Security SpecialtyCISM
Industry Keywords
DoD Security ControlsDefense SRGControl InheritanceCloud Security BaselinesTenant Onboarding

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudCyber SecurityDNSFirewallsSplunkTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Discover cyber risks with senior leaders
  • Understand applicable policies and develop mitigation plans
  • Review technical and personnel details from tenants to assess the threat landscape
  • Guide tenants through plans of action using presentations, whitepapers, and milestones
  • Work with cloud architects, cybersecurity teams, GRC, networking, platform engineering, and tenant teams
  • Make security controls repeatable and usable
  • Ensure users receive the right platform, understand inherited controls, and know their remaining responsibilities
  • Apply cloud-security expertise across AWS GovCloud, IL5 environments, Infrastructure-as-Code, control inheritance, and enterprise-scale cloud transformation

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 5+ years of experience securing, hardening, and remediating security vulnerabilities in AWS GovCloud
  • Experience with CMMC, NIST 800-171, DoD security controls, FedRAMP, defense SRG, or cloud security frameworks
  • Experience with cloud networking, routing, segmentation, firewalls, private connectivity, DNS, and network security controls
  • Experience with control inheritance, SSP generation, evidence mapping, or authorization package support
  • Knowledge of AWS organizations, organizational units, service control policies, identity, account governance, and cloud security baselines
  • Ability to translate policy to senior stakeholders and operations teams
  • Public Trust
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or comparable technologies
  • Experience deploying secure landing zones, shared services, platform baselines, or multi-account cloud architectures
  • Experience with AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Config, CloudTrail, Network Firewall, Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, Splunk, Tenable, F5, or comparable technologies
  • Experience supporting cloud migrations, tenant onboarding, account adoption, network-path validation, or platform-parity initiatives
  • Knowledge of IAM Identity Center, federation, Keycloak, Entra ID, privileged access, and identity-boundary design
  • CISSP, CCSP, Security+, AWS Security Specialty, CISM, or equivalent certification
  • Applicants selected will be subject to a government investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements of the U.S. government client
  • Public Trust determination is required

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 program for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of values
  • Identity verification process to protect against identity fraud