Solutions Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Solutions Engineer to support clients in modernizing their IT infrastructure through cloud computing. The role involves collaborating with cloud architects and engineers to design and develop cloud solutions while gaining hands-on experience with various cloud platforms and technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cloud architects and engineers specializing in Office 365, Azure, AWS, and GCP to design, define, develop, test, and debug cloud solution components
• Grow skills within a DevOps framework to develop and manage container apps and use products like Kubernetes
• Explore different ways of solving clients’ challenges using internal Azure, AWS, and GCP labs
• Help modernize legacy computing platforms and applications or create new ones from scratch

Requirements:

• Experience with cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, through coursework, personal projects, or a home lab environment
• Experience standing up and managing virtualized or containerized infrastructure, including in a Proxmox cluster, Docker homelab, or Kubernetes sandbox
• Experience writing automation or infrastructure-as-code scripts, Terraform configs, Ansible playbooks, or CI/CD pipelines in a personal or academic project
• Experience with AI or ML projects, including RAG pipeline, local model deployed and iterated on, or an LLM-backed tool
• Knowledge of logging, monitoring, or observability tooling
• Knowledge of how systems work under the hood
• Ability to learn a new technology, get to a working implementation, and explain decisions made along the way
• Ability to communicate clearly in writing, including documentation, README files, write-ups, or technical notes
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a Science, Technology, or Engineering field
• Experience with a major cloud provider beyond basic usage, including deploying and managing workloads, networking and IAM boundaries, and configuration
• Experience with container orchestration beyond local Docker Kubernetes clusters, including stand-up, breaking, and fixing, in a lab or academic environment
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, including writing and maintaining Terraform modules, Ansible playbooks, or equivalent
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline design and implementation, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent built for a real project with deployment targets
• Experience with secrets management, network segmentation, or access control design
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and observability stacks, including building dashboards, tuning alerts, and diagnosing incidents, using Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, or equivalent
• Experience supporting DoD programs, installations, or defense contractor environments
• Experience with DoD mission systems or C2 platform integration across NIPR, SIPR, or coalition network environments
• Experience in a technical lead role with accountability for both the design and the delivery outcome
• Professional or Specialty AWS Certifications such as Solutions Architect Professional or Security Specialty Certification