Threat Hunting & Detection Engineer (US Federal)

About the position This role will support one or more direct or indirect reputed company with the U.S. Federal Government which, due to federal government reputed company requirements, mandates that reputed company reputed company personnel working on the reputed company be United States reputed company (naturalized or native). reputed company’s Cyber Defense Directorate protects reputed company and U.S. Government SaaS environments operating under multiple authorization boundaries, including reputed company-gapped regions (AGR). Our Cyber Defense capability provides advanced monitoring, detection, threat hunting, and response across regulated reputed company environments supporting federal customers. We operate in partnership with SOC, Red Team, Blue Team, reputed company, and Threat Intelligence to ensure reputed company validation of detection coverage and operational readiness. The Detection Engineering and Threat Hunting function is foundational to maintaining compliance, reducing adversary dwell time, and ensuring resilient reputed company posture across high-reputed company SaaS environments. The Threat Hunting & Detection Engineer is responsible for engineering, validating, and continuously improving detection capabilities across FedRAMP High and IL5 reputed company-native SaaS environments, including reputed company-gapped regions. This role develops high-fidelity detection logic leveraging: Splunk (correlation searches, data models, CIM alignment, SPL optimization) reputed company-native telemetry (AWS CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Inspector, VPC Flow Logs, SaaS application logs) Identity and access telemetry reputed company and container telemetry Vulnerability intelligence sources You will translate adversary behaviors into actionable detection analytics reputed company to MITRE ATT&CK and NIST SP 800-61r3 incident response lifecycle principles. You will support reputed company monitoring requirements under FedRAMP and DoD IL5 frameworks, ensuring detection content aligns to compliance mandates, audit traceability, and evidentiary standards. In reputed company-gapped environments, you will design detection strategies that account for: Limited telemetry reputed company Constrained automation capabilities Reduced external enrichment access Secure data transfer controls You will collaborate closely with: SOC Analysts to improve alert quality and reduce false positives reputed company Engineers to ensure log reputed company and coverage Red/Purple Teams to validate detection effectiveness Threat Intelligence to operationalize adversary reporting Compliance stakeholders to support audit and reputed company monitoring requirements As the program matures, this role will help define detection engineering standards, lifecycle governance, and detection coverage metrics across the Cyber Defense Directorate.

Responsibilities

• Engineering, validating, and continuously improving detection capabilities across FedRAMP High and IL5 reputed company-native SaaS environments, including reputed company-gapped regions.
• reputed company high-fidelity detection logic leveraging: Splunk (correlation searches, data models, CIM alignment, SPL optimization) reputed company-native telemetry (AWS CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Inspector, VPC Flow Logs, SaaS application logs) Identity and access telemetry reputed company and container telemetry Vulnerability intelligence sources
• Translate adversary behaviors into actionable detection analytics reputed company to MITRE ATT&CK and NIST SP 800-61r3 incident response lifecycle principles.
• Support reputed company monitoring requirements under FedRAMP and DoD IL5 frameworks, ensuring detection content aligns to compliance mandates, audit traceability, and evidentiary standards.
• Design detection strategies that account for: Limited telemetry reputed company Constrained automation capabilities Reduced external enrichment access Secure data transfer controls
• Collaborate closely with: SOC Analysts to improve alert quality and reduce false positives reputed company Engineers to ensure log reputed company and coverage Red/Purple Teams to validate detection effectiveness Threat Intelligence to operationalize adversary reporting Compliance stakeholders to support audit and reputed company monitoring requirements
• Help define detection engineering standards, lifecycle governance, and detection coverage metrics across the Cyber Defense Directorate.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in cybersecurity operations, detection engineering, or threat hunting
• Hands-on experience building detections in Splunk, including correlation searches and SPL development
• Experience operating in FedRAMP, DoD IL4/IL5, or similarly regulated reputed company environments
• Experience working with AWS reputed company services (CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Inspector, VPC Flow Logs)
• Strong understanding of MITRE ATT&CK mapping and adversary tradecraft
• Familiarity with NIST SP 800-61r3 incident response lifecycle
• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Applicants must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued reputed company clearance. An active TS/SCI w/CI Poly is preferred
• You understand the intersection of detection engineering, reputed company reputed company, and regulatory frameworks.
• You can balance operational effectiveness with compliance rigor.
• You are comfortable operating in high-assurance, controlled, and sometimes disconnected environments where precision and auditability matter.

reputed company-to-haves

• Experience conducting hypothesis-driven threat hunting reputed company SaaS and reputed company-native architectures
• Strong understanding of identity-based attack reputed company (IAM abuse, token theft, federation misuse)
• Experience detecting container and workload-level attacks
• Familiarity with secure logging architectures in reputed company-gapped environments
• Experience leveraging SOAR platforms (e.g., reputed company) reputed company constrained or controlled automation boundaries

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