Senior Threat Hunter & Detection Engineer (Onsite)

Athletes Global Corporation; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Athletes Global Corporation seeks a Tier 3 Threat Hunter / Detection Engineer for Fort Meade, MD to proactively hunt threats, tune SIEM/SOAR content, and lead investigations in a 24/7 SOC.

The role requires TS/SCI with CI Poly, a bachelor's in cybersecurity or related field, 5–8+ years of experience, and advanced certifications (GCTI/GCFA/OSCP/CISSP). Onsite work and senior mentorship are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a related field; Master's preferred.
• Typically five to eight or more years of progressive cybersecurity experience, including threat hunting and detection engineering.
• DoD 8570/8140 IAT Level III and advanced certifications (GCTI, GCFA, OSCP, CISSP) required; SIEM/SOAR proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Conduct proactive, hypothesis-driven threat hunts informed by current cyber threat intelligence and adversary TTP frameworks.
• Develop, tune, and maintain SIEM and SOAR detection content and automated response playbooks, incorporating findings from incident after-action reviews.
• Lead technical investigation of advanced, persistent, or previously undetected threats, including advanced malware analysis and forensics beyond the scope of Tier 2 investigation.
• Provide senior technical mentorship to Tier 1 and Tier 2 staff, and support recurring tabletop, red-team, and purple-team exercises.
• Participate in design-time control mapping and threat modeling activities, providing SOC-informed input to architecture and platform engineering decisions.

Skills

Threat hunting

Detection engineering

Mentorship

Incident response

Threat modeling

Scripting/automation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

SIEM/SOAR content development

Malware analysis

Digital forensics

Job description

Athletes Global Corporation seeks a Tier 3 Threat Hunter / Detection Engineer for Fort Meade, MD to proactively hunt threats, tune SIEM/SOAR content, and lead investigations in a 24/7 SOC.

The role requires TS/SCI with CI Poly, a bachelor's in cybersecurity or related field, 5–8+ years of experience, and advanced certifications (GCTI/GCFA/OSCP/CISSP). Onsite work and senior mentorship are required.