Remote Threat Detection Engineer — SIEM & Threat Hunting

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC; Tallahassee (FL); Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC is seeking a Threat Detection Engineer to strengthen cybersecurity posture through detection capabilities, monitoring, threat hunting, and audit readiness initiatives. The role blends hands-on security engineering with governance, risk, and compliance activities to ensure controls are effective and regulatory aligned.

Responsibilities include developing SIEM content across enterprise environments, optimizing alerts, and partnering with Security Operations,

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 (PowerShell or Python), creating detection content, and building correlation rules.
• 5+ years of cybersecurity experience in threat detection, 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.
• 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 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

Security monitoring

Threat hunting

Audit readiness

Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity or related field

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk Enterprise Security

QRadar

Elastic Security

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC is seeking a Threat Detection Engineer to strengthen cybersecurity posture through detection capabilities, monitoring, threat hunting, and audit readiness initiatives. The role blends hands-on security engineering with governance, risk, and compliance activities to ensure controls are effective and regulatory aligned.

Responsibilities include developing SIEM content across enterprise environments, optimizing alerts, and partnering with Security Operations,