Threat Hunting & Detection Engineer (us Federal)

Workday

McLean, VA, USA
Base: $159,600 - $239,400 usd (mclean); + location...
Fully remote
Splunk correlation searches and spl development
Fedramp high and dod il5 compliance experience
Aws security services (cloudtrail, guardduty)
This role supports U.S. Federal Government contracts requiring United States citizenship and involves protecting enterprise and government SaaS environments

Job Summary

  • This role supports U.S. Federal Government contracts requiring United States citizenship and involves protecting enterprise and government SaaS environments.
  • The engineer is responsible for engineering high-fidelity detection logic 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 50% time in-office or field.

Matching Summary

This role supports U.S. Federal Government contracts requiring United States citizenship and involves protecting enterprise and government SaaS environments.

Salary

Base: $159,600 - $239,400 USD (McLean); Additional locations: $144,400 - $258,000 USD; Bonus/Equity: Eligible for Workday Bonus Plan and stock grants

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Splunk correlation searches and SPL development
  • FedRAMP High and DoD IL5 compliance experience
  • AWS security services (CloudTrail, GuardDuty)
  • MITRE ATT&CK mapping and adversary tradecraft
  • NIST SP 800-61r3 incident response lifecycle

Nice-to-have

  • Hypothesis-driven threat hunting in SaaS
  • Identity-based attack vector detection
  • Container and workload-level attack detection
  • SOAR platform experience in constrained environments
  • Secure logging architectures in air-gapped settings

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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