Remote Threat Detection Engineer - SIEM & Threat Hunting

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC; Boise (ID); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC is seeking a Threat Detection Engineer to strengthen cybersecurity posture through the development of 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 security controls are effective, measurable, and aligned with regulatory and industry requirements.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of hands-on threat detection engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience creating and maintaining SIEM rules at scale; scripting experience (PowerShell or Python).
• Experience across threat detection, security operations, incident response, and audit readiness.
• Experience with leading SIEM platforms and detection content development.

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 to identify suspicious activity.
• Partner with Security Operations, Incident Response, Infrastructure, and Cloud teams to improve detection coverage and response.
• Support audits by providing evidence, documentation, and responses to audit requests.
• Evaluate security controls and recommend enhancements to improve compliance and risk reduction.
• Assess and align monitoring practices to regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• 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 and root cause analyses.

Skills

Threat detection engineering

Scripting (PowerShell/Python)

Threat hunting

Security monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, CS, IS, 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 strengthen cybersecurity posture through the development of 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 security controls are effective, measurable, and aligned with regulatory and industry requirements.