Remote Threat Detection Engineer — SIEM & Threat Hunting

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC; Pierre (SD); 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. Role focuses on threat detection, monitoring, threat hunting, and audit readiness across enterprise environments.

The candidate will design and tune SIEM use cases, collaborate with Security Operations, Incident Response, and Cloud teams, and support audits while ensuring regulatory compliance and robust detection coverage.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

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 engineering

SIEM tuning

PowerShell

Python

Audits & compliance

Regulatory compliance

Security operations

Threat hunting

Security governance

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, 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 our cybersecurity posture. Role focuses on threat detection, monitoring, threat hunting, and audit readiness across enterprise environments.

The candidate will design and tune SIEM use cases, collaborate with Security Operations, Incident Response, and Cloud teams, and support audits while ensuring regulatory compliance and robust detection coverage.