Threat Hunting & Detection Engineer (us Federal)

Workday

McLean, VA, USA
Base: $159,600 - $239,400 usd (mclean); base: $144...
Fully remote
Splunk correlation searches and spl development
Fedramp high and dod il5 compliance experience
Aws security services cloudtrail guardduty inspector
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 continuously 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 half-time presence 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
  • FedRAMP High and DoD IL5 compliance 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 within constrained boundaries
  • Secure logging architectures in air-gapped environments

Key Requirements

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

Work Rights

Must have US citizenship

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