Remote Threat Detection & Compliance Engineer

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC is seeking a Threat Detection & Compliance Engineer to strengthen our cybersecurity posture through detection capabilities, security monitoring, threat hunting, and audit readiness initiatives.

This role combines hands-on security engineering with governance, risk, and compliance activities to ensure controls are effective, measurable, and aligned with regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of cybersecurity experience in threat detection, security engineering, security operations, incident response, compliance, or audits.
• Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Enterprise Security, QRadar, or Elastic Security.
• Experience developing and maintaining detection rules, alerting strategies, and monitoring processes.
• Strong understanding of security auditing principles, risk management, and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Experience supporting audits and responding to auditor requests.
• Knowledge of security frameworks and control standards.
• Experience investigating security events, analyzing logs, and identifying threats across enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of network, endpoint, and cloud security monitoring.
• Proficiency with PowerShell, Python, or other scripting languages.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain threat detection and monitoring capabilities across enterprise environments.
• Develop, tune, and optimize SIEM use cases, detection rules, alerts, and correlation logic.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting, security investigations, and event analysis.
• Partner with Security Operations, Incident Response, Infrastructure, and Cloud teams to improve coverage and response.
• Support audits by providing evidence, documentation, and responses to audit requests.
• Evaluate security controls and recommend enhancements for compliance and risk reduction.
• Assess and align monitoring practices to regulatory requirements and security frameworks.
• Analyze security logs and telemetry from diverse environments.
• Develop metrics, dashboards, and reporting to measure detection effectiveness and readiness.
• Automate monitoring, investigation, and reporting through scripting and workflows.
• Participate in incident investigations and continuous improvement.
• Maintain documentation of controls, processes, and audit artifacts.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Threat detection

Security operations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/CS/IS

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk ES

QRadar

Elastic Security

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC is seeking a Threat Detection & Compliance Engineer to strengthen our cybersecurity posture through detection capabilities, security monitoring, threat hunting, and audit readiness initiatives.

This role combines hands-on security engineering with governance, risk, and compliance activities to ensure controls are effective, measurable, and aligned with regulatory requirements.