WillHire

Threat Hunting & Detection Engineer, US Federal

WillHire

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: McLeanVirginiaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $159,600 - $239,400 per year

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