Endpoint Detection & Response Engineer

About the Role

As an Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Engineer, you will implement and optimize next-generation security solutions for customers. You’ll work with in-house teams to identify the right mix of tools, techniques, and procedures to translate customer needs and future goals into a plan that enables secure and effective solutions. In developing the best solutions, you will investigate new techniques, break free from the legacy model, and help customers exceed industry standards. As a team, you will take a critical approach to solution design, identifying gaps, providing alternatives, and customizing solutions to maintain a balance of security and business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement and optimize next-generation security solutions for customers.
• Work with in-house teams to identify the right mix of tools, techniques, and procedures.
• Translate customer needs and future goals into a plan for secure and effective solutions.
• Investigate new techniques.
• Break free from the legacy model.
• Help customers exceed industry standards.
• Take a critical approach to solution design, identifying gaps.
• Provide alternatives.
• Customize solutions to maintain a balance of security and business needs.
• Provide content on deliverables, including written reports and technical documents, SOPs and configuration guides, and training and briefing materials.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experience with deployment, configuration, or maintenance of enterprise Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions in a customer environment, such as Carbon Black EDR, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne, FireEye HX, McAfee MVision, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE), Tanium, or Elastic Endpoint Protection.
• Experience performing systems administration, including basic troubleshooting and installation, monitoring system performance or availability, performing security upgrades, and optimizing solution configurations to meet the needs of operational users.
• Knowledge of optimization of EDR solutions, including refinement of data produced, development of automated workflows or playbooks, and integration of EDR data with enterprise solutions, including SIEM, ITSM, and TIP solutions.
• Ability to provide content on deliverables.
• Secret clearance.
• HS diploma or GED.

Nice to Have

• Experience triaging security events in a SOC environment and leveraging data collected from enterprise security solutions.
• Experience providing support in a Tier I or II IT operations and maintenance role, including ticket work information updates, issue responses, and remediation.
• Knowledge of federal information security policies, standards, procedures, directives, frameworks, federal security authorizations, assessment, and risk management processes for enterprise systems.
• Ability to integrate cybersecurity data using enterprise or custom data aggregation and analysis tools, including Splunk.
• Ability to meet DoW 8140 requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• EDR Vendor Certification.

Clearance

• Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
• Secret clearance is required.

Compensation

• The projected compensation range for this position is $86,800.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD).
• This estimate represents the typical salary range and is one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package.

Work Model

• Remote, Hybrid, or Onsite positions may be available.
• Employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.
• If listed as remote, occasional work at a Booz Allen or customer facility may be required.
• If listed as hybrid, frequent work from a Booz Allen facility is expected.
• If listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility.