Location
Tysons
Job Type
full-time
Posted
June 19, 2026
Job Description
Job Description
Veilant is looking for a Cyber Defense Analyst to join our Information Security team and help defend our enterprise environment against active and emerging cyber threats.
In this role, you will monitor network and endpoint activity, investigate security alerts, tune detections, and help surface anomalous behavior across our SIEM and EDR stack, including Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Elastic, and Splunk.
This role is ideal for someone with a strong technical foundation, curiosity about how systems behave, and hands-on interest in alert triage, detection engineering, threat hunting, and incident response.
What You’ll Do
- Monitor endpoint and network activity using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Elastic, Splunk, and related security tools.
- Triage and investigate alerts, distinguishing benign activity from suspicious or malicious behavior.
- Develop, tune, and maintain detections using KQL, ES|QL, S...