Threat Hunting & Detection Engineer (us Federal)

Workday

McLean, VA, USA
Primary location base pyy range: $159,600 usd - $2...
Fully remote
Splunk detection logic development
Cloud-native telemetry analysis
Mitre att&ck mapping
Our Cyber Defense capability provides advanced monitoring, detection, threat hunting, and response across regulated cloud environments supporting federal customers

Job Summary

  • Our Cyber Defense capability provides advanced monitoring, detection, threat hunting, and response across regulated cloud environments supporting federal customers.
  • This role develops high-fidelity detection logic leveraging Splunk, cloud-native telemetry, identity and access telemetry, endpoint and container telemetry, and vulnerability intelligence sources.
  • Workday Government focuses on outcomes that serve a larger mission, supporting U.S. federal agencies as they modernize and transform employee lifecycle experience and finance operations.

Matching Summary

Our Cyber Defense capability provides advanced monitoring, detection, threat hunting, and response across regulated cloud environments supporting federal customers.

Salary

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $159,600 USD - $239,400 USD; Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $144,400 USD - $258,000 USD; Bonus/Equity: Role may be eligible for bonus/commission/stock grants

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Splunk detection logic development
  • Cloud-native telemetry analysis
  • MITRE ATT&CK mapping
  • NIST SP 800-61r3 incident response
  • FedRAMP High and IL5 environments
  • Air-gapped environment detection strategies

Nice-to-have

  • Hypothesis-driven threat hunting
  • Identity-based attack vector detection
  • Container and workload attack detection
  • SOAR platform integration

Key Requirements

  • 6+ years cybersecurity experience
  • Hands-on Splunk experience
  • FedRAMP, DoD IL4/IL5 experience
  • AWS security services experience
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Work Rights

Must have US citizenship

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