CareerPlan

Threat Detection & Response Engineer III

Long Beach, CAFull-time$120k–$165k2026-10-29 → 2026-11-11
On-site · United StatesCitizens or permanent residents onlySecurity clearance required

Core

Design and implement security detections, incident response procedures, and threat hunting capabilities to secure corporate and cloud environments.

Role type

Senior Threat Detection & Response Engineer

Builds

Security tooling, detection rules, incident response playbooks, and automation workflows

Domain

Cybersecurity, Threat Detection, Incident Response, Cloud Security

Required skills

Security operations, detection engineering, incident response, threat hunting, EDR platforms, SIEM platforms, log analysis, MITRE ATT&CK, scripting (Python/PowerShell/Bash), endpoint security (Windows/MacOS/Linux)

Preferred skills

Digital forensics, malware analysis, Detections-as-Code, GitOps, CI/CD, red team/purple team exercises, cloud security monitoring (AWS/GCP/Azure), federal compliance frameworks (CMMC/FedRAMP/NIST)

Technologies

Splunk, Elastic, EDR, SIEM, Python, PowerShell, Bash, Azure GovCloud, AWS, GCP

Responsibilities

Develop incident response plans, playbooks, and SOPs; Design and implement custom security detections; Monitor, triage, and respond to security alerts; Perform incident investigations; Proactively hunt for threats; Administer and optimize EDR and SIEM platforms; Build automation and orchestration workflows

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC