Threat Hunting & Detection Engineer (us Federal)

Workday

McLean, VA, USA
Base: $159,600 - $239,400 usd; bonus/equity: eligi...
Fully remote
Splunk correlation searches and spl development
Fedramp high and dod il5 environment experience
Aws security services cloudtrail guardduty inspector
This role supports U.S. Federal Government contracts requiring United States citizenship and mandates working within high-security FedRAMP High and IL5 cloud-native SaaS environments

Job Summary

  • This role supports U.S. Federal Government contracts requiring United States citizenship and mandates working within high-security FedRAMP High and IL5 cloud-native SaaS environments.
  • The engineer is responsible for engineering, validating, and continuously improving detection capabilities using Splunk, AWS telemetry, and identity access data to reduce adversary dwell time.
  • Workday offers a competitive compensation package including base salary ranges from $144,400 to $258,000, along with bonus plans, stock grants, and flexible work arrangements.

Matching Summary

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

Salary

Base: $159,600 - $239,400 USD; Bonus/Equity: Eligible for Workday Bonus Plan and annual refresh stock grants; Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package described as available

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Splunk correlation searches and SPL development
  • FedRAMP High and DoD IL5 environment experience
  • AWS security services CloudTrail GuardDuty Inspector
  • 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 boundaries
  • Secure logging architecture in air-gapped environments

Key Requirements

  • 6+ years of 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

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