Threat Hunting & Detection Engineer (us Federal)

Workday

McLean, VA, USA
Base: $159,600 - $239,400 usd (mclean); + location...
Fully remote
6+ years cybersecurity operations experience
Splunk correlation searches and spl development
Fedramp high and dod il5 environment experience
This role supports U.S. Federal Government contracts requiring personnel to be United States citizens

Job Summary

  • This role supports U.S. Federal Government contracts requiring personnel to be United States citizens.
  • The engineer will develop high-fidelity detection logic leveraging Splunk and cloud-native telemetry across regulated environments.
  • Workday offers a competitive salary range of $159,600 to $258,000 USD along with bonus plans and stock grants.

Matching Summary

This role supports U.S. Federal Government contracts requiring personnel to be United States citizens.

Salary

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

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 6+ years cybersecurity operations experience
  • Splunk correlation searches and SPL development
  • FedRAMP High and DoD IL5 environment experience
  • AWS CloudTrail GuardDuty Inspector VPC Flow Logs
  • MITRE ATT&CK mapping and NIST SP 800-61r3

Nice-to-have

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

Key Requirements

  • Active TS/SCI w/CI Poly security clearance preferred
  • Must be a United States citizen
  • Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity or equivalent experience

Work Rights

Must have US citizenship

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