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Cyber Automation Engineer

Job in McLean, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
Listing for: Booz Allen Hamilton
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-21
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Cybersecurity, Security Management & Operations, Information Security & Data Protection
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 86800 - 198000 USD Yearly USD 86800.00 198000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Join a culture of empowerment and connectivity.

Develop your craft

Learn the skills you need to accelerate your career.

Discover benefits that support your life and work.

Innovate with intention

Build mission-ready tech that protects the nation.

As a Cyber Automation Engineer, you know how to leverage Dev Sec Ops  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 Dev Sec Ops  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.

Experience with Linux, Windows Server, and MacOS

Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Crowdstrike, Splunk, or Service Now

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 Git Hub Dev Sec Ops  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, Dev Sec Ops , or cyber automation or 5+ years of experience with software development, Dev Sec Ops , or cyber automation in lieu of a degree

You Have
  • Experience with Linux, Windows Server, and MacOS
  • Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Crowdstrike, Splunk, or Service Now
  • 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 Git Hub Dev Sec Ops  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…
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