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DevOps Engineer
The Opportunity:
Everyone is trying to "harness the cloud", but not everyone knows how. As a DevOps engineer, you're eager to build, manage, and secure a cloud-native container platform that meets your client's needs and takes full advantage of the cloud's capabilities. We need you to engineer container management and cloud management solutions to resolve some of our clients' toughest challenges.
As a DevOps Engineer at Booz Allen, you can use your technical skills to affect mission-forward change. You'll work with your team as they use the latest cloud technologies to improve your client's environment with current container and cloud management solutions to ensure seamless orchestration. Using your DevOps platform expertise, you'll contribute to strategy and design while ensuring standards are met throughout the containerization process. You'll recommend resources that will help your client manage and securely adopt
containers.
Additionally, you'll continue to strengthen your DevOps skills while supporting the development of critical cloud platforms. Work with us to use cloud platform technology for good.
Join us. The world can't wait.
You Have:

• 2+ years of experience in the development of tools and processes to drive DevOps or DevSecOps maturity by automating builds, regression testing, monitoring, and pushing releases across environments
• Experience developing, managing, and securing cloud-native solutions with a focus on containers in AWS
• Experience implementing, maintaining, and updating Infrastructure-as-Code solutions such as AWS CDK, AWS CloudFormation, or Terraform
• Experience with Command of Object-Oriented Programming fundamentals such as member fields, object instantiation, and inheritance
• Experience with AWS security services such as GuardDuty, Macie, Detective, or Inspector
• Experience implementing a platform compliant with a body of standards such as FedRAMP Moderate, HITRUST, PCI DSS, or SOC2
• Experience automating tasks of multiple levels of complexity ranging from simple tasks on your workstation to elaborate tasks involving deploys and tasks of complex logic
• Experience using AI tooling to accelerate or streamline tasks
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of experience in DevOps or DevSecOps, or 8+ years of experience in DevOps or DevSecOps in lieu of a degree

Nice If You Have:

• Experience with Kubernetes administration and application deployment paradigms
• Experience with AWS CDK
• Experience with TypeScript
• Experience with logging and organization-management AWS solutions such as CloudWatch, Identity Center, OpenSearch, and Organizations
• Experience executing on Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) needs within the FedRAMP Moderate or PCI DSS v4.0 regulatory regimes
• Experience operating in a government-facing regulated environment with an Authorization to Operate (ATO)
• Experience triaging and resolving issues related to open-source and commercial tools in public cloud environments
• Experience with keyboard engineering implementations
• Experience with Amazon Q
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python and BASH

Clearance:
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
Compensation
At 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.
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. The projected compensation range for this position is $62,000.00 to $141,000.00 (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
As 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. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.
Candidate AI Usage Policy
AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.
Work Model
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.

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.
• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.