Threat Hunting & Detection Engineer (us Federal)

Workday

McLean, VA, USA
Base: $159,600 - $239,400 usd; bonus/equity: eligi...
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 advanced security clearances

Job Summary

  • This role supports U.S. Federal Government contracts requiring United States citizenship and advanced security clearances.
  • The engineer will design detection strategies for high-security FedRAMP High and IL5 cloud-native SaaS environments including air-gapped regions.
  • Workday offers a competitive salary range of $159,600 to $239,400 USD along with flexible work arrangements requiring 50% time in-office or field.

Matching Summary

This role supports U.S. Federal Government contracts requiring United States citizenship and advanced security clearances.

Salary

Base: $159,600 - $239,400 USD; Bonus/Equity: Eligible for Workday Bonus Plan and annual refresh stock grants; Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package available

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 adversary tradecraft

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

  • United States citizenship required
  • TS/SCI w/CI Poly security clearance preferred
  • Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity or equivalent
  • Active ability to obtain government security clearance

Work Rights

Must have US citizenship

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