
Threat Hunting & Detection Engineer, US Federal
WillHire
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: McLean • Virginia • United States
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Salary
💰 $159,600 - $239,400 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Support one or more direct or indirect contracts with the U.S. Federal Government
- Protect enterprise and U.S. Government SaaS environments operating under multiple authorization boundaries
- Provide advanced monitoring, detection, threat hunting, and response across regulated cloud environments
- Collaborate with SOC, Red Team, Blue Team, Purple Team, and Threat Intelligence
- Engineer, validate, and continuously improve detection capabilities across FedRAMP High and IL5 cloud-native SaaS environments
- Develop high-fidelity detection logic leveraging Splunk, Cloud-native telemetry, Identity and access telemetry, Endpoint and container telemetry, Vulnerability intelligence sources.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in cybersecurity operations, detection engineering, or threat hunting
- Hands-on experience building detections in Splunk, including correlation searches and SPL development
- Experience operating in FedRAMP, DoD IL4/IL5, or similarly regulated cloud environments
- Experience working with AWS security services (CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Inspector, VPC Flow Logs)
- Strong understanding of MITRE ATT&CK mapping and adversary tradecraft
- Familiarity with NIST SP 800-61r3 incident response lifecycle
- Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
Benefits
- Workday Bonus Plan
- Role-specific commission/bonus
- Annual refresh stock grants
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Hard Skills & Tools
cybersecurity operationsdetection engineeringthreat huntingSplunkcorrelation searchesSPL developmentAWS security servicesMITRE ATT&CKNIST SP 800-61r3vulnerability intelligence