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Senior Threat Detection Engineer - Contract to hire (With strong intention of converting to full time permanent) - Remote in the U.S. (Must reside in the US)

We're looking for a Security Detection Engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for the following:

• Improve alerting and monitoring coverage; reduce noise and increase signal fidelity.
• Advise on proactive security measures beyond standard policies and controls.
• Conduct hands-on threat hunting and investigate potential threats, including dark web intelligence.
• Manage and optimize the SIEM (Sumologic).
• Build and customize advanced queries, dashboards, and behavior-based risk scoring.

Please Note: At this time, our client can only consider applications from U.S. Citizens and Green card holders. They are unable to offer visa sponsorship or work with C2C.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of security experience, with at ideally 2–3 years focused on security operations or monitoring.
• Deep understanding of enterprise IT environments, systems, and user access processes.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise SIEM Sumologic with the ability to build dashboards, create custom queries, and manage detections across multiple systems.
• Experience analyzing and improving alerting, reducing noise, and increasing signal fidelity.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts to support accurate detection; able to navigate IaC configurations.
• Background in SecOps, threat detection, or hunting preferred.
• Some Python scripting or programming experience.
• Understanding of cloud security concepts and secure system design.
• Knowledge of threat frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK) and attacker techniques.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen or Green Card holder.

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