Remote Threat Detection Engineer - SIEM & Threat Hunting Pro

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision care

Federal and state leave programs

Job summary

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC is seeking a Threat Detection Engineer to strengthen cybersecurity by developing detection capabilities, security monitoring, threat hunting, and audit readiness initiatives. This role blends hands-on security engineering with governance, risk, and compliance activities.

Remote EST work, requiring 5+ years of experience, SIEM expertise, and scripting. You will collaborate with security teams to improve detection coverage and support audits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, CS, IS, or related field.
• 5+ years hands-on threat detection engineering experience.
• Experience building and maintaining SIEM rules at scale.
• Experience with SIEM platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk ES, QRadar, or Elastic Security.
• Knowledge of auditing principles, risk management practices, and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Experience supporting audits and auditor requests.
• Strong understanding of network, endpoint, 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.
• 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 engineering

Incident response

SIEM rules

Scripting (PowerShell or Python)

Cloud security

Audit readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, CS, IS, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk ES

QRadar

Elastic Security

Job description

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC is seeking a Threat Detection Engineer to strengthen cybersecurity by developing detection capabilities, security monitoring, threat hunting, and audit readiness initiatives. This role blends hands-on security engineering with governance, risk, and compliance activities.

Remote EST work, requiring 5+ years of experience, SIEM expertise, and scripting. You will collaborate with security teams to improve detection coverage and support audits.