Cyber Mission Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton•Houston, TX

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About The Position

Cyber Mission Engineer The Opportunity: As a mission systems engineer specializing in complex, high‑consequence environments, you know that resilient system design is the backbone of mission success. At Booz Allen, you’ll apply your engineering expertise across IT, mission systems, space systems, and industrial control environments designing, integrating, and optimizing critical systems that must operate flawlessly under demanding conditions. In this role, your primary focus is engineering, analyzing system architectures, integrating software and hardware components, validating system behaviors, and ensuring mission systems function reliably from end to end. You’ll apply the Software Development Life Cycle to guide design decisions, develop engineering documentation, and support system validation and verification activities that directly impact operational readiness. Cybersecurity is woven throughout the mission, and your role incorporates it as an engineering requirement, not the sole focus. You’ll assess how cyber risks influence system performance, apply NIST RMF concepts within engineering workflows, and collaborate with cybersecurity teams to ensure the solutions you design are resilient to evolving threats, including integrating secure architectures into mission systems, ensuring controls align with federal and DoD requirements, and supporting mission unique environments where security and engineering must be tightly coupled. You will support system integration efforts across cloud platforms and mission systems, interpret technical requirements, and translate them into engineering plans, design artifacts, and configuration baselines. Your research and analysis will inform leadership on system behaviors, mission impacts, and engineering trade‑offs, helping drive decisions that strengthen mission performance. If you want to work shoulder to shoulder with mission operators and engineers building, integrating, and securing the systems that underpin our most critical national missions, this is the opportunity to make your impact. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

10+ years of experience with cybersecurity posture of IT, mission, space systems, and industrial control systems
5+ years of experience as a System Administrator or Software Engineer
Experience with technical writing
Knowledge of NIST standards and how to apply RMF
Knowledge of Cloud systems, federal guidelines, and federal cybersecurity requirements
Ability to apply the Software Development Life Cycle
Ability to apply cybersecurity principles to non-enterprise type environments
Bachelor’s degree in Science
DoD 8570 IAT II or IAM II Certification such as CISSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CISM, or GSLC Certification

Nice To Haves

12+ years of experience with cybersecurity posture of IT, mission, space systems, and industrial control systems
Experience working in the aerospace industry
Experience implementing and using cybersecurity monitoring or scanning tools
Experience securing space systems and industrial control systems
Knowledge of cybersecurity regulations and controls related to government mission systems, space systems, or industrial control systems
Master's degree

Responsibilities

Engineering, analyzing system architectures
Integrating software and hardware components
Validating system behaviors
Ensuring mission systems function reliably from end to end
Apply the Software Development Life Cycle to guide design decisions
Develop engineering documentation
Support system validation and verification activities that directly impact operational readiness
Assess how cyber risks influence system performance
Apply NIST RMF concepts within engineering workflows
Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to ensure the solutions you design are resilient to evolving threats
Integrating secure architectures into mission systems
Ensuring controls align with federal and DoD requirements
Supporting mission unique environments where security and engineering must be tightly coupled
Support system integration efforts across cloud platforms and mission systems
Interpret technical requirements
Translate them into engineering plans, design artifacts, and configuration baselines
Research and analysis will inform leadership on system behaviors, mission impacts, and engineering trade‑offs