Threat Detection Engineer - Remote Security Monitoring

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 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