Detection Engineering Lead

MANTECH seeks a motivated and customer-oriented Cyber Detection Engineering Lead to join our team in McLean, VA. In this role you lead the mission to enhance cybersecurity detection and response capabilities by developing high-fidelity detection logic, automating security workflows, and strengthening threat-hunting operations. This role serves as a technical leader and liaison with customer staff, overseeing project and task workflow while improving the organization’s ability to identify, analyze, and respond to evolving cyber threats. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Developing, optimizing, and deploying custom detection rules across SIEM platforms and creating signatures and detection rules for malware and network-based threats Building, testing, and tuning security analytics pipelines to reduce false positives and improve alert fidelity Designing and implementing SOAR playbooks to streamline and enhance security operations Automating threat intelligence ingestion, correlation, and alerting mechanisms Developing integration scripts between security tools and data sources to enhance visibility and response capabilities Developing and maintaining robust detection logic mapped to MITRE ATT&CK techniques Conducting continuous security log analysis to identify anomalies and potential threats Collaborating with Incident Response teams to provide detection logic for emerging threats Leveraging EDR solutions to detect and investigate endpoint threats Analyzing Windows internals and system logs to identify malicious activities and forensic artifacts Serving as a liaison with customer staff and overseeing project and task workflow to ensure successful mission execution