Threat Hunting & Detection Engineer (us Federal)

CONNECTA e.V.

McLean, VA, USA
Base: $159,600 - $239,400 usd; bonus/equity: eligi...
Fully remote
Splunk correlation searches and spl development
Fedramp high and dod il5 compliance experience
Aws security services cloudtrail guardduty inspector
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 $258,000 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

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

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

  • 6+ years of cybersecurity operations or detection engineering experience
  • Active TS/SCI w/CI Poly security clearance preferred
  • Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
  • Must be a United States citizen (naturalized or native)

Work Rights

Must have US citizenship

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