Remote Threat Detection Engineer — SIEM & Threat Hunting

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC is seeking a Threat Detection Engineer to enhance cybersecurity posture through detection development, monitoring, threat hunting, and audit readiness initiatives in a remote EST setting. The role combines hands-on security engineering with governance, risk, and compliance activities to ensure controls are effective, measurable, and aligned with regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities include designing and maintaining detection across enterprise, tuning SIEM use

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity or related field.
• 5+ years hands-on detection engineering experience with SIEM rules at scale.
• 5+ years cybersecurity experience in threat detection, security operations, incident response, compliance, or related disciplines.
• Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk ES, QRadar, or Elastic Security.
• Experience developing and maintaining detection rules, alerting strategies, and security monitoring processes.
• Strong understanding of security auditing principles, risk management practices, 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.

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 to identify potential security threats.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting, security investigations, and event analysis.
• Partner with Security Operations, Incident Response, Infrastructure, and Cloud teams to improve detection coverage and response effectiveness.
• Support internal and external audits by providing evidence, documentation, and responses to audit requests.
• Evaluate security controls and recommend enhancements to improve compliance, risk reduction, and operational effectiveness.
• Assess and align security monitoring practices to regulatory requirements, industry standards, and security frameworks.
• Analyze security logs and telemetry from network, endpoint, cloud, and application environments.
• Develop metrics, dashboards, and reporting to measure detection effectiveness and compliance readiness.
• Automate security monitoring, investigation, and reporting processes through scripting and workflow improvements.
• Participate in incident investigations, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Maintain documentation of security controls, monitoring processes, detection logic, and audit artifacts.

Skills

Threat detection

Threat hunting

Python

PowerShell

Auditing concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, CS, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk Enterprise Security

QRadar

Elastic Security

Job description

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC is seeking a Threat Detection Engineer to enhance cybersecurity posture through detection development, monitoring, threat hunting, and audit readiness initiatives in a remote EST setting. The role combines hands-on security engineering with governance, risk, and compliance activities to ensure controls are effective, measurable, and aligned with regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities include designing and maintaining detection across enterprise, tuning SIEM use