Cyber Automation Engineer

About the role

Maintain responsibility for the successful installation, configuration, and integration of the Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) platform within complex client environments. Leverage an understanding of IT infrastructure, networking, and security tools to ensure seamless data onboarding and high customer satisfaction. Collaborate closely with clients, project managers, and internal engineering teams to deliver a comprehensive and accurate asset inventory solution. Configure and manage CAASM solution deployment in accordance with the systems engineering lifecycle (SELC). Monitor, design, and onboard new data connections by integrating CAASM with a wide range of third-party security and management tools. Create and maintain deployment scripts and automation processes to streamline installations and enhance data management efficiency. Analyze and interpret complex cyber datasets to uncover insights, performing exploratory analysis and ensuring data quality, accuracy, and reliability. Document the installation and configuration of production deployments. Perform system monitoring and ongoing daily maintenance for deployed CAASM instances, ensuring system health, data integrity, and adherence to security best practices. Participate in on-call rotation for production support.

Responsibilities

• Maintain responsibility for the successful installation, configuration, and integration of the CAASM platform within complex client environments.
• Leverage an understanding of IT infrastructure, networking, and security tools to ensure seamless data onboarding and high customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate closely with clients, project managers, and internal engineering teams to deliver a comprehensive and accurate asset inventory solution.
• Configure and manage CAASM solution deployment in accordance with the systems engineering lifecycle (SELC).
• Monitor, design, and onboard new data connections by integrating CAASM with a wide range of third-party security and management tools.
• Create and maintain deployment scripts and automation processes to streamline installations and enhance data management efficiency.
• Analyze and interpret complex cyber datasets to uncover insights, performing exploratory analysis and ensuring data quality, accuracy, and reliability.
• Document the installation and configuration of production deployments.
• Perform system monitoring and ongoing daily maintenance for deployed CAASM instances, ensuring system health, data integrity, and adherence to security best practices.
• Participate in on-call rotation for production support.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience architecting, implementing, integrating, and managing COTS solutions for hybrid cloud environments
• 3+ years of experience performing systems administration in Windows, Linux, or VMware environments, including performing basic troubleshooting, installation, configuration, monitoring system performance or availability, and performing security upgrades
• 3+ years of experience with programming and debugging, shell scripting, application containerization, data storage, and retrieval from a variety of sources
• 2+ years of experience deploying, hosting, monitoring, and securing solutions for government customers
• Experience with APIs and data pipelines to ingest, normalize, and correlate asset data with vulnerability feeds, threat intelligence, and security findings from multiple sources
• Knowledge of scripting languages for automation and troubleshooting and APIs with their usage for data integration
• Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree and 5+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities
• Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities
• Master’s degree and 1+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities

Skills

• Knowledge of networking fundamentals
• Excellent communication and relationship skills to articulate technical topics and build consensus among stakeholders
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

Benefits

• Salary range: $86,800.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD)
• Recognition awards program
• Total benefits package including health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care

Pay

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.

Schedule

Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.