Threat Hunter & Detection Engineer - Cyber Defense

Partner Forces LLC; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Partner Forces LLC, a homeland security-focused management consulting firm, is seeking a Detection Engineer / Threat Hunter to support a critical federal cybersecurity mission. The role requires curiosity, analytical thinking, and the ability to translate adversary behavior into actionable detections.

You will work with SOC, IR, and CTI teams to strengthen monitoring and response capabilities. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience in threat hunting, detection engineering, or security

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Cybersecurity, CS, IT, or related field.
• 3–7 years in cybersecurity with threat hunting, detection engineering, security operations or incident response.
• Strong understanding of adversary TTPs, procedures, and threat intelligence.
• Experience with SIEM platforms, security analytics tools, and telemetry across endpoint, network, cloud, or identity.

Responsibilities

• Conduct proactive threat hunts across enterprise networks, endpoints, cloud, apps, and identity systems.
• Develop hunting hypotheses using threat intelligence and analytics.
• Design, test, and tune detections across SIEM, EDR/XDR, NDR, and cloud platforms.
• Develop Sigma rules, YARA signatures, SIEM queries, analytics rules, and playbooks.
• Communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Threat hunting

Detection engineering

Security operations

Incident response

Scripting

Communication

Client-facing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/CS/IT

Tools

SIEM

Security analytics tools

Endpoint security telemetry

Cloud security telemetry

MITRE ATT&CK

Python

PowerShell

KQL

Job description

Partner Forces LLC, a homeland security-focused management consulting firm, is seeking a Detection Engineer / Threat Hunter to support a critical federal cybersecurity mission. The role requires curiosity, analytical thinking, and the ability to translate adversary behavior into actionable detections.

You will work with SOC, IR, and CTI teams to strengthen monitoring and response capabilities. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience in threat hunting, detection engineering, or security