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Detection Engineer Architect (Remote)

DCI Solutions

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Top Secret
Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
$140,000 - $180,000
Occasional travel
IT - Data Science

Remote Detection Engineer Architect

Location: Remote

Job Description:

Serve as a Detection Engineer Architect

This role bridges legacy ARIA detection logic with:

Next-generation analytics environments (Databricks, Sparc)
Downstream alerting systems (e.g., Log Insight)
Provide remote advisory services

Discover and analyze the current setup

Understand and manage ARIA Detection Logic

Explain detection methods and workflows
Explain alert logic and how it translates to Log Insight
Assist in translating ARIA log structures and detection logic for use
Understand and review how detection logic works on new dashboard
Provide Schema Guidance

Give recommendations for schemas, field mappings, detection catalog alignment
Identify and help fill gaps in detection and schema understanding

Analyze the current ARIA detection environment, log structures, and workflows

Review analytic platforms to understand how detection logic is executed and surfaced

Translate detection logic into new platform constructs while preserving intent and fidelity

Validate how detection logic generates alerts and how those alerts map into Log insight

Provide recommendations for log schemas, field mappings, and normalization strategies

Ensure alignment with detection catalogs and security analytics standards

Identify schema gaps or inconsistencies that impact detection effectiveness

Recommend practical remediation approaches to close identified gaps

Act as a technical translator between security, data engineering, and platform teams

Support documentation and knowledge transfer to internal teams and clients

Qualifications:

8+ years in security analytics, detection engineering, or security architecture

Strong understanding of detection logic design

Rule-based, behavioral, correlation-driven
Hands-on experience with log schemas, field normalization, and event modeling

Familiarity with modern data platforms (Databricks strongly preferred)

Experience integrating detections into SIEM / log analytics platforms

Ex. Log Insight, Splunk, Sentinel
Deep technical fluency in detection engineering, schema design, and security analytics

Experience explaining complex logic to engineering, security, and program stakeholders

Ability to reverse-engineer and explain complex detection logic

Strong documentation and verbal explanation skills

Comfortable advising senior technical and security stakeholders

Knowledge of detection frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK, detection catalogs) (preferred)

Active DoD Top-Secret Clearance

Job Type: Full-time

$140,000-$180,000

Benefits:

401(k)
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Employee assistance program
Flexible schedule
Flexible spending account
Health insurance
Health savings account
Life insurance
Paid time off
Parental leave
Professional development assistance
Retirement plan
Tuition reimbursement
Vision insurance

Experience:
Security analytics/architecture, or detection engineering: 8 years (Preferred)
ARIA detection logic design : 5 years (Preferred)
Integrating detections into SIEM / log analytics platforms: 5 years (Preferred)
Explaining complex logic to stakeholders: 3 years (Preferred)

Security clearance:
Top Secret (Required)
Work Location: Remote
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DCI Solutions is a Small Business based in Maryand that focuses on providing engineering and program management consulting services to numerous government agencies. Our services are tailored to the needs of our specific government clients and their missions. DCI has extensive technical domain knowledge in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), command and control (C2), healthcare systems, high performance computing, and cyber warfare. DCI also provides its clients with critical program acquisition and planning support to enable them to operate effectively and efficiently in an austere funding environment. Our corporate structure is flat and all DCI employees are billable to customers by design. This gives us the ability to punch far above our weight in terms of having a direct impact on our customers'​ success. Our customers prefer us because we are LEAN, RESPONSIVE, and ENGAGED.

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IT - Data Science
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Top Secret