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Elastic Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton

Washington, DCFull-time$78–176K/yrPosted 1mo agoStill listed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$78–176K/yr
Location
Washington, DC
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
US work authorization required

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

TS/SCI clearance, required

Job overview

Booz Allen Hamilton seeks an experienced data engineer to build and deploy data pipelines and platforms that make disparate data meaningful for mission-driven client projects. The role involves assessing, designing, building, and maintaining scalable platforms, while guiding a multidisciplinary team in an agile environment. The work supports missions ranging from fraud detection and cancer research to national intelligence.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

SIEM Platforms, requiredData Pipeline Architecture, requiredSecurity Operations, requiredElastic Stack, requiredLogstash, requiredElasticsearch, requiredKibana, requiredElastic Agents, requiredKubernetes, requiredDocker, requiredConfiguration Management, requiredDevOps Tooling, requiredAnsible, requiredPuppet, requiredChef, requiredTerraform, requiredClassified Environments, requiredData Tiering, requiredBlob Storage, requiredIndex Lifecycle Strategies, requiredIngest Pipelines, requiredData Enrichment, requiredCluster Monitoring, requiredObservability Solutions, nice to haveStream Processing, nice to haveData Brokering, nice to haveCribl, nice to haveKafka, nice to haveNiFi, nice to haveDevSecOps, nice to haveCI/CD Pipelines, nice to havePython, nice to haveBash, nice to haveScripting, nice to have

Qualifications

5+ Years SIEM Experience, required3+ Years Pipeline Architecture Experience, required2+ Years Elastic Stack Experience, requiredTop Secret Clearance, requiredHigh School Diploma or GED, requiredTS/SCI Clearance With Polygraph, nice to haveBachelor's in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering, or Information Systems, nice to haveDoD 8140 Baseline Certification, nice to haveSecurity+ or CISSP or CISSP-ISSEP or CASP+, nice to have

Benefits

Medical Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Tuition Assistance

Full job description

Elastic EngineerThe Opportunity: Ever-expanding technology like IoT, machine learning, and artificial intelligence means that there’s more structured and unstructured data available today than ever before. As a data engineer, you know that organizing data can yield pivotal insights when it’s gathered from disparate sources. We need an experienced data engineer like you to help our clients find answers in their data to impact important missions—from fraud detection to cancer research to national intelligence.

As a data engineer at Booz Allen, you’ll help build advanced technology solutions and implement data engineering activities on some of the most mission-driven projects in the industry. You’ll deploy and develop pipelines and platforms that organize and make disparate data meaningful.

Here, you’ll work with and guide a multi-disciplinary team of analysts, data engineers, developers, and data consumers in a fast-paced, agile environment. You’ll use your experience in analytical exploration and data examination while you manage the assessment, design, building, and maintenance of scalable platforms for your clients. Work with us to use data for good.

Join us. The world can't wait.

You Have:

  • 5+ years of experience with SIEM platforms such as Elastic Security, Kibana, Splunk Enterprise Security, Sentinel, or Chronicle
  • 3+ years of experience designing data pipeline architectures for security operations, including log collection, normalization, enrichment, and routing
  • 2+ years of experience with Elastic Stack, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Agents, including installing, configuring, maintaining, upgrading, and troubleshooting these products
  • Experience deploying platforms across cloud, on-premises, and disconnected environments using Kubernetes or Docker
  • Experience with configuration management or DevOps tooling, including Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or Terraform
  • Experience working in highly structured, controlled, classified or compartmented environments with strict access enforcement
  • Knowledge of hot-warm-cold-frozen data tiering, blob storage, and index lifecycle strategies
  • Knowledge of ingest pipelines, enrichment, and cluster monitoring tools
  • Top Secret clearance
  • HS diploma or GED

Nice If You Have:

  • Experience supporting large-scale observability solutions, including metrics, traces, or logs
  • Experience with stream processing or data brokering platforms such as Cribl, Kafka, NiFi, or equivalent
  • Experience with DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines in IL5, IL6, or IL7 environments
  • Experience with Python, Bash, or other scripting languages for automating system operations tasks
  • TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering, or Information Systems
  • DoD 8140 baseline Certification, such as Security+, CISSP, CISSP-ISSEP, or CASP+ Certification

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

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 $77,600.00 to $176,000.00 (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.

How this job compares

Set against the 6,255 open Data Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$78–176K/yr
  • Washington, D.C. median$108–188K/yr83 salary ranges
  • US median$125–208K/yr4,857 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $127K, is 16% below the Washington, D.C. median midpoint ($151K) — in the lowest quarter of Data Engineer salary ranges in Washington, D.C..

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 101 open Data Engineer jobs in Washington, D.C. and 6,255 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Washington, D.C.
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Data Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (5,438 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 2,540 of the 6,255 open Data Engineer jobs (41%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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