Remote Threat Detection Engineer – SIEM & Threat Hunting

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC; Carson City (NV); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC is seeking a Threat Detection Engineer to strengthen our cybersecurity posture through development of detection capabilities, security monitoring, threat hunting, and audit readiness initiatives in a remote EST setting.

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

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 5+ years hands-on detection engineering experience, creating and maintaining SIEM rules at scale, scripting experience (PowerShell or Python), creating detection content, and building correlation rules.
• 5+ years of cybersecurity experience in threat detection, security engineering, security operations, incident response, compliance, audit, or related disciplines.
• 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 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 security, endpoint security, 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 to identify suspicious activity and emerging risks.
• 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

SIEM tuning

Scripting (PowerShell or Python)

Detection content

Correlation rules

Threat hunting

Security monitoring

Incident response

Audits/compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/CS/Info Systems

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 development of detection capabilities, security monitoring, threat hunting, and audit readiness initiatives in a remote EST setting.

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