💼 Full-Time Position

Threat Detection Engineer

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Apex Systems
📍 Houston, Texas, United States
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Location
Houston, United States
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Posted
June 10, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Job#: 3030490

Job Description:

Threat Detection Engineer

Location: Houston, Texas (Onsite)

Employment Type: Contract

Role Overview

We are seeking a candidate for a technical detection engineering role focused on logs, telemetry, SIEM integration, and creating actionable alerts. This position involves building and improving threat detection pipelines by working with application logs, event data, and indicators of compromise. The objective is to convert raw data into actionable alerts for Incident Response, Secure AI, Forensics, and Insider Threat teams, enabling them to respond with increased speed and accuracy.

Key Responsibilities
  • Build and improve threat detection pipelines.
  • Work with application logs, event data, triggers, and indicators of compromise.
  • Convert raw data into actionable alerts for various cybersecurity teams.
  • Ingest telemetry into the SIEM and tune detections to reduce noise.