Signals and Defense Engineer, Mid (Cybersecurity)

Location: Remote, with possible work at a Booz Allen or customer facility; McLean, Virginia, USA. U.S. citizenship required.

Salary: $69,400–$158,000 annualized USD.

Company

hirify.global provides professional services, systems integration, advisory, and consulting services.

What you will do

• Investigate security alerts, suspicious activity, and incidents across endpoint, network, identity, cloud, application, and infrastructure environments.
• Perform incident triage, scope impact and root cause, and support containment, eradication, and recovery.
• Conduct hypothesis-driven threat hunts using threat intelligence, adversary behaviors, emerging attack techniques, and MITRE ATT&CK.
• Analyze security telemetry and use SIEM, EDR/XDR, network, cloud security, threat intelligence, and analytics platforms.
• Translate findings into detection logic, monitoring improvements, telemetry enhancements, and actionable remediation.
• Document investigations, improve response and hunting playbooks, participate in post-incident reviews, and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• At least 1 year of cybersecurity experience with hands-on threat hunting, incident response, security operations, detection engineering, or security investigations.
• Experience conducting hypothesis-driven threat hunts and applying adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures, including MITRE ATT&CK.
• Experience analyzing endpoint, network, identity, cloud, application, and authentication telemetry for indicators of compromise and anomalous behavior.
• Experience using SIEM, EDR/XDR, or security data platforms to query, correlate, and analyze large volumes of telemetry.
• Experience using AI, machine learning, automation, or agentic security technologies for investigation, enrichment, correlation, or threat hunting.
• Experience with cloud security investigations in AWS, Azure, or GCP, including identity activity, audit logs, workloads, and cloud attack techniques.
• Knowledge of Windows and Linux, including system logs, processes, command-line activity, authentication events, and common forensic artifacts.
• Ability to turn hunt findings into incident response actions, including validation, scoping, containment recommendations, eradication support, and recovery.
• HS diploma or GED.

Nice to have

• Experience with structured threat hunts, behavioral analytics, detection tuning, SIEM queries, correlation logic, or detection-as-code.
• Scripting or automation with Python, PowerShell, Bash, SQL, or similar technologies; knowledge of NIST SP 800-61, MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, or ISO/IEC 27035.
• Experience with cloud incident response, containers, Kubernetes, Docker, or serverless workloads.
• Experience with AI threats and attacks, network analysis, malware analysis, digital forensics, endpoint investigation, or memory and disk artifacts.
• Experience in professional services, systems integration, advisory, or consulting environments and cross-functional security teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• Excellent analytical, investigative, and collaborative skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
• Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care support.
• Recognition awards for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
• Remote employees may occasionally work at a Booz Allen or customer facility; virtual employees are generally expected to keep cameras on during meetings.

Hiring process

• Identity verification uses advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence; candidates are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments.
• Use of AI or other tools to assist with interview responses is prohibited unless explicitly permitted.