Cybersecurity Detection Engineer x2

Be Part of a High-Performing Team

Join a global financial services organization committed to maintaining resilient, secure, and highly regulated technology operations. The cybersecurity organization protects complex cloud and on-premises environments by strengthening monitoring, threat detection, and incident response capabilities.

This position supports a collaborative Security Operations team that works closely with SOC analysts, incident responders, threat intelligence specialists, security engineers, and technology partners. The environment is fast-paced and analytical, with a strong emphasis on measurable detection coverage, automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

What s In Store For You

• Engagement: W2 only; no C2C or 1099 arrangements.

• Hybrid position based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

• Opportunity to develop sophisticated threat detections across cloud and on-premises environments.

• Exposure to security analytics, detection-as-code, automation, MITRE ATT&CK, and modern security monitoring technologies.

• Collaboration with global cybersecurity, threat intelligence, incident response, and technology teams.

• Opportunity to directly improve the organization s ability to identify and respond to emerging cyber threats.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Design, develop, test, tune, and maintain threat detection logic across cloud and on-premises environments.

• Improve alert quality, monitoring visibility, and the organization s ability to detect and respond to malicious activity.

• Build and maintain log onboarding and data-ingestion processes for endpoint, network, identity, cloud, application, and infrastructure telemetry.

• Translate threat intelligence, attacker behaviors, and indicators of compromise into actionable monitoring use cases.

• Develop correlation rules, behavioral analytics, signatures, alert thresholds, and detection content that reduce false positives.

• Partner with SOC analysts and incident responders to investigate alerts, validate detection effectiveness, and identify coverage gaps.

• Map detection logic and security-monitoring coverage to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

• Apply scripting, automation, and detection-as-code practices to improve testing, deployment, scalability, and lifecycle management.

• Evaluate security data sources, analytics capabilities, and monitoring technologies to identify opportunities for improvement.

• Maintain documentation covering detection logic, data sources, tuning decisions, operational procedures, and response playbooks.

• Ensure detection-engineering practices align with regulatory obligations, internal controls, and cybersecurity standards.

• Assess the effectiveness of monitoring controls and recommend practical improvements that strengthen cyber resilience.

Requirements

Do You Bring Proven Success in Threat Detection and Security Analytics?

• At least 3 years of experience in detection engineering, SOC engineering, security analytics, cybersecurity operations, or a related discipline.

• Hands-on experience analyzing logs and telemetry from endpoint, network, identity, cloud, infrastructure, and application platforms.

• Experience working with SIEM, UEBA, EDR, SOAR, security data lakes, or comparable security-monitoring technologies.

• Strong knowledge of security query languages and data-analysis methods used to investigate events and build detection logic.

• Experience developing automation, scripts, detection-as-code pipelines, or repeatable security operations processes.

• Ability to convert threat intelligence, adversary behaviors, and attack techniques into practical detections.

• Experience mapping detections or security coverage to MITRE ATT&CK or a similar framework.

• Working knowledge of Windows, Linux, enterprise infrastructure, and cloud environments.

• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and root-cause analysis capabilities.

• Ability to independently manage operational responsibilities and project deliverables.

• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document technical detection logic and tuning decisions.

• Strong ownership, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate effectively within a global team.

• Experience in incident response, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, security engineering, or cloud security is preferred.