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Booz Allen

Builds AI and cyber systems for the US government

AI DevOps Technologist

Full-TimeDeadline 11/25/26
$99k - $225k/yr
Senior
Bachelor's
McLean, VA, USA
In Person
AI & Machine Learning
No H1B Sponsorship
US Citizenship Required

About the job

Requirements
  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, systems integration, platform engineering, automation, cybersecurity operations, or a technical field.
  • Experience delivering business or enterprise software, automation, integration, platform, or application solutions.
  • Experience implementing or supporting AI tools, automation platforms, AI gateways, workflow technologies, or enterprise applications.
  • Experience with cloud platforms, DevSecOps practices, identity and access management, logging, and monitoring tools.
  • Experience integrating systems through application programming interfaces, webhooks, or service-based architectures.
  • Experience building secure system integrations, including sign-in, permissions, access controls, logging, and audit records.
  • Experience with cloud platforms, automated software delivery, identity and access management, or monitoring tools.
  • Experience troubleshooting complex technical issues, documenting solutions, and driving work to resolution.
  • Ability to work independently while collaborating across engineering, cybersecurity, product, and operational teams.
  • A Bachelor's degree.
  • U.S. citizenship is required.
Responsibilities
  • Design, configure, test, deploy, and support AI tools and automated workflows.
  • Set up and operate the AI Gateway, including access permissions, model selection, API connections, usage tracking, and audit records.
  • Lead the secure, maintainable connection of AI tools, APIs, enterprise applications, and workflow platforms.
  • Develop and maintain automation scripts, workflows, technical documentation, runbooks, and implementation guidance.
  • Plan and carry out testing, troubleshooting, and release activities for AI tools and automations.
  • Partner with cybersecurity and platform teams to protect data and implement secure sign-in, permissions, access controls, and monitoring.
  • Support cyber operations, including work with 5.5 and Mythos.
  • Review tool performance, usage, user feedback, and recurring issues to identify improvements.
  • Improve prompts, workflows, and AI assistant configurations to increase accuracy, reliability, and ease of use.
  • Provide technical input in design discussions, code reviews, backlog refinement, and sprint planning.
  • Coach junior team members and communicate technical decisions, risks, and recommendations.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with AI Gateway capabilities, including model selection, usage monitoring, or governance.
  • Experience with AI assistant workflows, prompt improvement, model evaluation, or orchestration tools.
  • Experience with containers, Kubernetes, automated infrastructure setup, or cloud AI services.
  • Experience supporting Cyber Ops platforms or processes, including 5.5 and Mythos.
  • Experience creating operational dashboards, technical roadmaps, user enablement materials, or adoption metrics.
  • Experience leading technical workstreams or mentoring engineers in an agile delivery environment.

About the company

Booz Allen builds and runs technology for the U.S. government, mostly for the military and intelligence agencies, and its engineers work alongside consultants who know each agency's mission. In 1958, it helped the U.S. Navy create PERT, a project-scheduling method first used on the Polaris submarine missile program and later adopted across government and industry. Its teams design cyber defenses, AI and data tools, and battlefield communications, and it sells its own products, such as Vellox, a suite of AI tools that spot and fight off hackers. Agencies pay mainly through multi-year contracts that reimburse costs, bill hours, or set a fixed price. Booz Allen was founded in 1914 and is based in McLean, Virginia.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

1914

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What believers are saying

  • Product work is growing: Booz Allen bought Ultra's battlefield encryption and computing unit for $720 million in August 2026.
  • Hiring continues despite cuts: Booz Allen listed 2,282 open roles in October 2026, 1,097 of them in technology.
  • Work is lined up for years: backlog, including contract options, hit $39.5 billion in June 2026, about 3.5 years' revenue.

What critics are saying

  • Job security has slipped: staff fell from 33,400 to 30,900 in the year to June 2026 as civil work shrank.
  • Stock grants lost value: shares fell 29% in the year to October 2026 while defense IT rival CACI rose 14%.
  • Shutdowns halt paid work: the federal shutdown that began October 2025 cost Booz Allen about $50 million in unperformed work.

What makes Booz Allen unique

  • Most coworkers are cleared for secrets: about 77% of Booz Allen's 31,500 employees held security clearances in March 2026.
  • AI is its specialty: Booz Allen calls itself the federal government's largest AI provider, with about 400 active AI projects.
  • It bankrolls defense tech startups: Booz Allen tripled its venture fund to $300 million in July 2025, backing 17 companies.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Paid Vacation

Professional Development Budget

Remote Work Options

Flexible Work Hours

Company News

PR Newswire
Oct 9th, 2026
PDW integrates Booz Allen mission autonomy software on AM drones with secure fleet updates

Performance Drone Works announced it is integrating Booz Allen's mission autonomy software, powered by Shield AI's Hivemind, onto its AM drones. The software enables autonomy-assisted missions whilst operators retain decision-making authority. PDW is also deploying Booz Allen's secure over-the-air fleet update system across its aircraft portfolio. The combined product entered testing on 30 September and is planned for general availability in Q1 2027. PDW aims to extend the autonomy software to its C100 aircraft later in 2027. The integration supports PDW's strategy to rapidly field and adapt systems. The company's Huntsville facility has annual production capacity of 100,000 drones. Booz Allen's update system is designed to reduce approved update cycles from weeks to hours, even in contested environments.

Tectonic
Oct 5th, 2026
Aventra raises $17.5M for high-altitude balloon-dropped glide bombs

Virginia-based startup Aventra has raised $17.5 million in new funding, with Konvoy Ventures leading the round. Seed round backer Lavrock Ventures participated alongside new investors Booz Allen Ventures, Sands Capital, Langford Industries, and Western Alliance Bank. The company manufactures Piranha, a high-altitude balloon-dropped glide bomb that converts unguided munitions into precision-guided weapons. Since emerging from stealth with a $3.5 million seed round last October, Aventra has delivered over 400 units to US and NATO customers and doubled its production revenue. The system launches munitions from 60,000 feet and can glide approximately 100 miles, with recent demonstrations achieving accuracy within three metres of targets. Aventra plans to use the funding to scale production from 35 units monthly to 500 through a new Virginia facility called Factory Zero.

Yahoo Finance
Sep 14th, 2026
Palantir, Nvidia, Booz Allen restrict Anthropic and OpenAI models over data retention concerns

Palantir Technologies, Nvidia, and Booz Allen Hamilton are restricting use of AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI over data protection concerns, Reuters reported. The companies worry model providers could retain or extract value from sensitive corporate information. Palantir has pressed Anthropic for zero data retention guarantees. Nvidia limits Anthropic's models to less sensitive tasks, favouring its own Nemotron models for proprietary work. Booz Allen has banned staff from using Anthropic's commercial model on cybersecurity projects involving proprietary data. The pushback intensified after Anthropic introduced a 30-day data retention policy in June for its Claude 3.5 model, citing security monitoring needs. Anthropic responded by launching Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, allowing customers to store activity data in their own cloud infrastructure under their encryption keys.

Business Wire
Sep 12th, 2026
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Credo AI, a global leader in AI governance software, today announced that it has raised $21 million in new capital from CrimsoNox Capital, Mozilla Ventures, ...

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