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
Aws security services experience
Mitre att&ck mapping
The Detection Engineering and Threat Hunting function is foundational to maintaining compliance, reducing adversary dwell time, and ensuring resilient security posture across high-security SaaS environments

Job Summary

  • The Detection Engineering and Threat Hunting function is foundational to maintaining compliance, reducing adversary dwell time, and ensuring resilient security posture across high-security SaaS environments.
  • This role develops high-fidelity detection logic leveraging Splunk, cloud-native telemetry, identity and access telemetry, endpoint and container telemetry, and vulnerability intelligence sources.
  • You will support continuous monitoring requirements under FedRAMP and DoD IL5 frameworks, ensuring detection content aligns to compliance mandates, audit traceability, and evidentiary standards.

Matching Summary

The Detection Engineering and Threat Hunting function is foundational to maintaining compliance, reducing adversary dwell time, and ensuring resilient security posture across high-security SaaS environments.

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 Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Splunk detection logic development
  • AWS security services experience
  • MITRE ATT&CK mapping
  • NIST SP 800-61r3 lifecycle
  • FedRAMP High environments
  • DoD IL5 environments

Nice-to-have

  • Hypothesis-driven threat hunting
  • Identity-based attack vectors
  • Container and workload attacks
  • SOAR platform experience
  • Curious minds and courageous collaborators

Key Requirements

  • 6+ years cybersecurity experience
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • Ability to obtain TS/SCI w/CI Poly clearance

Work Rights

Must have US citizenship

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