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 telemetry
Mitre att&ck adversary behaviors
This role supports U.S. federal agencies in modernizing their employee lifecycle and finance operations with Workday's cloud platform

Job Summary

  • This role supports U.S. federal agencies in modernizing their employee lifecycle and finance operations with Workday's cloud platform.
  • The Threat Hunting & Detection Engineer is responsible for engineering, validating, and continuously improving detection capabilities across FedRAMP High and IL5 cloud-native SaaS environments.
  • You will collaborate closely with SOC Analysts, Security Engineers, Red/Purple Teams, Threat Intelligence, and Compliance stakeholders to ensure robust security posture.

Matching Summary

This role supports U.S. federal agencies in modernizing their employee lifecycle and finance operations with Workday's cloud platform.

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 plan or commission/bonus and annual refresh stock grants

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Splunk detection logic development
  • AWS security services telemetry
  • MITRE ATT&CK adversary behaviors
  • FedRAMP High and IL5 compliance
  • 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 of cybersecurity experience
  • Splunk detection engineering experience
  • FedRAMP, DoD IL4/IL5 experience
  • AWS security services experience
  • MITRE ATT&CK framework knowledge
  • NIST SP 800-61r3 incident response lifecycle
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Work Rights

Must have US citizenship

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