Threat Detection Engineer — Remote (EST)

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC; Indianapolis (IN); Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

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

Responsibilities include designing threat detection, tuning SIEM rules, conducting threat hunts, and supporting audits with evidence and documentation; scripting in PowerShell or

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on detection engineering experience.
• 5+ years cybersecurity experience in threat detection, security operations or related disciplines.
• Experience building and maintaining SIEM rules at scale; scripting in PowerShell or Python.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain threat detection and monitoring across enterprise environments.
• Develop, tune, and optimize SIEM use cases, detection rules, alerts, and correlations.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting and security investigations to identify risks.
• Support audits with evidence, documentation, and responses to audit requests.
• Collaborate with Security Operations, Incident Response, Infrastructure, and Cloud teams.
• Develop metrics and dashboards to measure detection effectiveness and compliance readiness.

Skills

Threat detection engineering

SIEM tuning

PowerShell or Python scripting

Threat hunting

Audit readiness

Security monitoring

Cloud security monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/CS/IS

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk Enterprise Security

QRadar

Elastic Security

Job description

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

Responsibilities include designing threat detection, tuning SIEM rules, conducting threat hunts, and supporting audits with evidence and documentation; scripting in PowerShell or