Threat Hunting & Detection Engineer (us Federal)

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McLean, VA, USA
Base: $159,600 - $239,400 usd (mclean); base: $144...
Fully remote
Splunk correlation searches and spl development
Aws cloudtrail guardduty inspector vpc flow logs
Fedramp high and dod il5 regulatory compliance
This role supports U.S. Federal Government contracts requiring United States citizenship and mandates work within high-security FedRAMP High and IL5 cloud environments

Job Summary

  • This role supports U.S. Federal Government contracts requiring United States citizenship and mandates work within high-security FedRAMP High and IL5 cloud environments.
  • The engineer is responsible for engineering, validating, and improving detection capabilities using Splunk, AWS telemetry, and identity access data to reduce adversary dwell time.
  • Workday offers a competitive salary range of $159,600 to $258,000 USD along with flexible work arrangements requiring at least 50% time in the office or field.

Matching Summary

This role supports U.S. Federal Government contracts requiring United States citizenship and mandates work within high-security FedRAMP High and IL5 cloud environments.

Salary

Base: $159,600 - $239,400 USD (McLean); Base: $144,400 - $258,000 USD (Other US locations); Bonus/Equity: Eligible for Workday Bonus Plan and annual refresh stock grants

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Splunk correlation searches and SPL development
  • AWS CloudTrail GuardDuty Inspector VPC Flow Logs
  • FedRAMP High and DoD IL5 regulatory compliance
  • MITRE ATT&CK mapping and adversary tradecraft
  • NIST SP 800-61r3 incident response lifecycle

Nice-to-have

  • Hypothesis-driven threat hunting in SaaS architectures
  • Identity-based attack vector detection expertise
  • Container and workload-level attack detection
  • SOAR platform experience in constrained environments
  • Secure logging architecture in air-gapped regions

Key Requirements

  • 6+ years cybersecurity operations or detection engineering experience
  • Active TS/SCI w/CI Poly security clearance preferred
  • Must be a United States citizen (naturalized or native)
  • Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent

Work Rights

Must have US citizenship (naturalized or native)

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