Threat Hunting & Detection Engineer (us Federal)

Workday

McLean, VA, USA
Base: $159,600 - $239,400 usd (mclean); base: $144...
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 United States citizenship and mandates working within high-security FedRAMP High and IL5 cloud-native 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 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 half-time presence in the office or field.

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 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

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

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 settings

Key Requirements

  • United States citizenship required
  • Active TS/SCI w/CI Poly clearance preferred
  • Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity or equivalent experience
  • 6+ years of experience in detection engineering or threat hunting

Work Rights

Must have US citizenship

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