Remote Threat Detection Engineer: SIEM & Threat Hunting

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC; Nashville (TN); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC seeks a Threat Detection Engineer to bolster security posture through designing detection capabilities, tuning SIEM, and guiding audit readiness across enterprise environments.

The role collaborates with Security Operations, Incident Response, Infrastructure, and Cloud teams to strengthen monitoring, drive continuous improvement, and ensure regulatory compliance and risk reduction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 5+ years hands on detection engineering experience. Must have hands on Threat 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.

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/Python)

Threat Hunting

Audit & Compliance

Security Operations

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 seeks a Threat Detection Engineer to bolster security posture through designing detection capabilities, tuning SIEM, and guiding audit readiness across enterprise environments.

The role collaborates with Security Operations, Incident Response, Infrastructure, and Cloud teams to strengthen monitoring, drive continuous improvement, and ensure regulatory compliance and risk reduction.