Threat Detection Engineer

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC; Des Moines (IA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Leave programs

Job summary

Beacon Hill Technologies is seeking a Threat Detection Engineer to strengthen our cybersecurity posture through detection development, 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 compliant.

The candidate will design and maintain detection capabilities, tune SIEM use cases, and collaborate with Security Operations, Incident Response, Infrastructure, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 5+ years hands-on threat detection engineering experience with SIEM rules at scale.
• 5+ years cybersecurity experience in threat detection, security operations, 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 and security monitoring processes.
• Strong understanding of auditing principles, risk management, and regulatory compliance.
• 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 environments.

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.
• Collaborate with Security Operations, Incident Response, Infrastructure, and Cloud teams to improve coverage.
• Support audits by providing evidence, documentation, and responses to requests.
• Evaluate controls and recommend enhancements to improve compliance and risk reduction.
• Align monitoring practices with regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• Analyze security logs and telemetry from network, endpoint, cloud, and apps.
• Develop metrics, dashboards, and reporting to measure detection effectiveness.
• Automate monitoring, investigation, and reporting through scripting and workflows.
• Participate in incident investigations and root cause analysis.
• Maintain documentation of controls, processes, and audit artifacts.

Skills

Threat detection

SIEM tuning

Scripting

Threat hunting

Security monitoring

Audit readiness

Regulatory compliance

Incident response

Log analysis

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/CS/IS

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk ES

QRadar

Elastic Security

Job description

Beacon Hill was founded to set a new standard in search, career placement and flexible staffing. Location: Remote ESTWe are seeking a Threat Detection Engineer to help strengthen our cybersecurity posture through the development of detection capabilities, security monitoring, threat hunting, and audit readiness initiatives. This role combines hands-on security engineering with governance, risk, and compliance activities to ensure security controls are effective, measurable, and aligned with regulatory and industry 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 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.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 5+ years hands on detection engineering experience. Must have hands on Threat Detection Engineering experience, creating and maintaining SIEM rules at scale, scripting experience (Powershell or Python), creating detection content, and building correlation rules.
• 5+ years of cybersecurity experience in threat detection, security engineering, 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.

Beacon Hill is an equal opportunity employer and individuals with disabilities and/or protected veterans are encouraged to apply.

California residents: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Company Profile

Beacon Hill Technologies, a premier National Information Technology Staffing Group, provides world class technology talent across all industries utilizing a complete suite of staffing services. Beacon Hill Technologies' dedicated team of recruiting and staffing experts consistently delivers quality IT professionals to solve our customers' technical and business needs. Beacon Hill Technologies covers a broad spectrum of IT positions, including Project Management and Business Analysis, Programming/Development, Database, Infrastructure, Quality Assurance, Production/Support and ERP roles. Learn more about Beacon Hill and our specialty divisions, Beacon Hill Associates, Beacon Hill Financial, Beacon Hill HR, Beacon Hill Legal, Beacon Hill Life Sciences and Beacon Hill Technologies by visiting www.bhsg.com .

Benefits Information

Beacon Hill offers a robust benefit package including, but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, and federal and state leave programs as required by applicable agency regulations to those that meet eligibility. Upon successfully being hired, details will be provided related to our benefit offerings.

We look forward to working with you.Beacon Hill. Employing the Future™