Remote Threat Detection Engineer - SIEM Threat Hunter Pro

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC; Columbia (SC); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Job summary

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC is seeking a Threat Detection Engineer to strengthen our cybersecurity posture through detection development, monitoring, threat hunting, and audit readiness initiatives. The role blends hands-on security engineering with governance, risk, and compliance activities to ensure effective controls.

The candidate will design and maintain detection capabilities, develop SIEM content, and partner with multiple teams to improve coverage and response.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 5+ years hands-on detection engineering with SIEM rules at scale and scripting (PowerShell or Python).
• 5+ years in threat detection, security operations, incident response, or audit-related roles.
• Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms: Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk ES, QRadar, Elastic Security.
• Experience developing detection rules, alerts, and monitoring processes.
• Strong knowledge of auditing, risk management, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience supporting audits and auditor requests.
• Familiarity with security frameworks and controls.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain threat detection and monitoring across enterprise environments.
• Develop, tune, and optimize SIEM use cases, rules, alerts, and correlation logic.
• Conduct threat hunting, investigations, and event analysis to identify threats.
• Collaborate with Security Operations, Incident Response, Infrastructure, and Cloud teams.
• Support audits by providing evidence, documentation, and responses.
• Evaluate controls and recommend improvements to compliance and risk reduction.
• Align monitoring practices with regulatory requirements and security frameworks.
• Analyze logs from network, endpoint, cloud, and applications.
• Develop dashboards and reporting to measure detection effectiveness.
• Automate monitoring and reporting through scripting and workflows.
• Participate in incident investigations and root-cause analysis.
• Maintain documentation of controls, monitoring processes, and audit artifacts.

Skills

Threat detection engineering

SIEM rules at scale

Powershell or Python

Threat hunting

Audit readiness

Cloud security monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/CS/IS

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk Enterprise Security

QRadar

Elastic Security

Job description

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC is seeking a Threat Detection Engineer to strengthen our cybersecurity posture through detection development, monitoring, threat hunting, and audit readiness initiatives. The role blends hands-on security engineering with governance, risk, and compliance activities to ensure effective controls.

The candidate will design and maintain detection capabilities, develop SIEM content, and partner with multiple teams to improve coverage and response.