Senior Threat Detection Engineer - SIEM & Hunting (Remote)

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

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

The candidate will design and maintain SIEM rules, run threat hunts, and collaborate across Security Operations, Infrastructure, and Cloud teams while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 5+ years hands on detection engineering experience with SIEM rules at scale.
• 5+ years 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 ES, 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.

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

SIEM

Scripting

Audits & compliance

Cloud security monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/CS/IS or related

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk ES

QRadar

Elastic Security

Job description

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

The candidate will design and maintain SIEM rules, run threat hunts, and collaborate across Security Operations, Infrastructure, and Cloud teams while