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 or dod il4/il5 environment experience
This role supports U.S. Federal Government contracts requiring United States citizenship and mandates working within high-security FedRAMP High and IL5 cloud environments

Job Summary

  • This role supports U.S. Federal Government contracts requiring United States citizenship and mandates working within high-security FedRAMP High and IL5 cloud environments.
  • The engineer is responsible for engineering, validating, and continuously improving detection capabilities using Splunk, AWS telemetry, and identity access data to reduce adversary dwell time.
  • Workday offers a competitive base salary range of $159,600 to $239,400 USD along with bonus plans, stock grants, and flexible work arrangements requiring at least 50% time in-office.

Matching Summary

This role supports U.S. Federal Government contracts requiring United States citizenship and mandates working within high-security FedRAMP High and IL5 cloud environments.

Salary

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

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 6+ years cybersecurity operations experience
  • Splunk correlation searches and SPL development
  • FedRAMP High or DoD IL4/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 architectures
  • Identity-based attack vector detection expertise
  • Container and workload-level attack detection
  • SOAR platform experience in constrained boundaries
  • Secure logging architecture in air-gapped environments

Key Requirements

  • United States citizenship required
  • TS/SCI w/CI Poly security clearance preferred
  • Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity or equivalent
  • 6+ years experience in detection engineering

Work Rights

Must have US citizenship

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