Threat Detection Engineer - Remote & Compliance

Beacon Hill; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Hill is seeking a Threat Detection & Compliance Engineer to strengthen cybersecurity posture through 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 and compliant.

You will design, implement, and tune SIEM use cases and alerts, conduct threat hunting and investigations, and collaborate with Security

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• 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.

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.

Skills

Threat detection

Threat hunting

Incident response

Scripting (PowerShell/Python)

Auditing knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

SIEM platforms (Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk ES, QRadar, Elastic Security)

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Beacon Hill is seeking a Threat Detection & Compliance Engineer to strengthen cybersecurity posture through 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 and compliant.

You will design, implement, and tune SIEM use cases and alerts, conduct threat hunting and investigations, and collaborate with Security