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At Booz Allen, you can apply your skills and broad knowledge to inform strategies and mitigate the most pressing vulnerabilities. Here, you aren’t just deciphering reports. You’re telling the story to inform our nation’s most far-reaching cybersecurity decisions.\nAs a cyber threat specialist on our team, you’ll help customers solve problems working across cloud computing, data engineering, and enterprise workflow platforms. You’ll work alongside multiple stakeholders to evaluate system risks, analyze various NIST controls, and determine the best way to lock down systems. You’ll monitor security environments and identify security gaps through the eyes of an adversary. In this role, you’ll impact the SEC’s security posture by monitoring the various platforms for new and evolving threats and identifying security gaps before they can be accessed by a bad actor.\nBooz Allen is committed to creating an environment where you can expand your cyber career through mentoring, the opportunity to leverage new resources, and the ability togain in-demand certifications to sharpen your skillset. With opportunities supporting both the private and public sectors across multiple geographies, your career is only limited by your own appetite for exploration.\nWork with us to secure our systems, networks, and crucial infrastructures.\nJoin us. The world can’t wait.\nYou Have:\n5+ years of experienceproviding support to Information Technology (IT)operations\nExperience creating security baselines using CIS and STIG benchmarks\nExperience working with the NIST 800 Special Publication series guidance for risk management and security control implementation, including 800-30,800-37, 800-53, 800-60, 800-63, 800-115, or 800-137\nExperience reviewing, developing, or customizing general security configuration baselines\nKnowledge of the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)and Common Vulnerability Enumeration (CVE)\nAbility to create security baselines from scratch using vendor documentation\nAbility to modify CIS and STIG benchmarks to meet organizational requirements\nAbility to translate low-level security baseline requirements into high-level FISMA and NIST requirements and client-specific security\nAbility to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements\nHS diploma or GED \nNice If You Have:\nExperience with networking, including Cisco, Juniper, or Palo Alto, operating systems, including Windows Server, Red Hat, or Linux, cloud services, including AWS, Azure, Salesforce, Okta, O365, or ServiceNow, or mobile technologies, including iOS or Xen Mobile\nExperience designing, building, and implementing automation tools, including Ansible, Chef, or Puppet\nExperience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools, including CloudFormation or Terraform\nExperience with container platforms, including OpenShift\nExperience with chaos engineering and blue or green deployments\nExperience with serverless, including Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, and SAM\nExperience with application performance analysis and monitoring, including ELK\nExperience with JSON or YMAL programming\nBachelor's degree\nAWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer, CCNA, MSCE, RHCSA, EBSA, or ECSS Certification\nVetting:\nApplicants selected will be subject to a government investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements of the U.S. government client.\nCompensation\nAt 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.\nSalary 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 $99,000.00 to $225,000.00 (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.Identity Statement\nAs part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. 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