# Senior Detection Engineer

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets. Nightwing is supporting a U.S. Government customer to provide for onsite incident response to civilian Government agencies and critical asset owners who experience cyber-attacks, providing immediate investigation and resolution. Contract personnel perform investigations to characterize the severity of breaches, develop mitigation plans, and assist with the restoration of services. Nightwing is seeking a Senior Detection Engineer in support of this contract. The Senior Detection Engineer develops, validates, deploys, and tunes detection logic supporting proactive threat hunting across federal and critical infrastructure environ

- **Id**: 3889028
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nightwing-senior-detection-engineer>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Arlington, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T20:35:06Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T01:32:51Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9301
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Dental insurance, Insurance coverage
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: National Security, Security Operations

## Company

- **Id**: 3852631
- **Name**: Nightwing
- **Domain**: nightwing.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nightwing-2>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 96
- **Open postings**: 243
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.16
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 50
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 122000
- **Max**: 253000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 253000

## Technologies

- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **MITRE ATT&CK** — Optional: no
- **PowerShell** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no
- **Cortex XDR** — Optional: yes
- **Crowdstrike** — Optional: yes
- **Microsoft Defender** — Optional: yes
- **SentinelOne** — Optional: yes
- **Splunk** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T20:35:06Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 99
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.993
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 50
- **Reasons**: conf:3, urgency, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 253000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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