Cyber Threat Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: Hybrid role in Merrifield/Vienna, Virginia, United States

Rate: $70–80/hour on W2

Company

hirify.global delivers outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America, supporting clients with technical staffing and operational delivery.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain tools, scripts, automated workflows, and Python utilities for TIER threat-hunting and intelligence operations.
• Build repeatable pipelines for collecting, ingesting, enriching, transforming, and operationalizing threat intelligence data.
• Develop, test, document, and maintain YARA and SIGMA rules and supporting detection processes.
• Translate analyst requirements into technical solutions, integrations, automation, and reusable capabilities using the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Integrate internal and external intelligence sources and perform quality assurance for tools, rules, scripts, integrations, and automation.
• Troubleshoot and maintain tools, data pipelines, integrations, workflows, documentation, and operating procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, information systems, engineering, or a related technical discipline preferred; relevant experience may substitute.
• Master’s degree in cybersecurity, information assurance, computer science, or a comparable technical discipline strongly preferred; comparable advanced qualifications or demonstrated expertise may substitute.
• Demonstrated experience in cybersecurity engineering, security automation, or threat engineering, including direct support for Cyber Threat Intelligence or threat-hunting functions.
• At least 3 years of Python experience, plus script-based automation and YARA and SIGMA rule development.
• Practical experience applying MITRE ATT&CK to cybersecurity or threat-hunting use cases.
• Strong cybersecurity engineering, automation, troubleshooting, technical problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to independently develop, test, document, and maintain reliable, reusable, and maintainable scripts, integrations, automation, and supporting processes.
• Understanding of threat intelligence and threat-hunting concepts and workflows, with strong attention to quality, repeatability, maintainability, and documentation.

Nice to have

• Security+, CySA+, GCIH, GCIA, or comparable cybersecurity certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid contractor work model.
• Eligible employees may receive medical, dental, vision, spending account, life insurance, and voluntary plan coverage.
• Eligible employees may participate in a 401(k) plan.
• Equal opportunity employment across legally protected characteristics.