Senior Cybersecurity Engineer (SME)

Job description

Responsibilities Peraton is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer (SME) to support a federal customer’s Virtual Security Operations Center (vSOC) . Location: Washington, DC: This individual will serve as the technical lead for SIEM operations, detection engineering, and advanced security analytics, leveraging Microsoft Sentinel and the Microsoft Defender security stack. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical expert who can operate at both the engineering and operational levels, ensuring comprehensive monitoring, high-fidelity detection, and actionable intelligence across enterprise environments. This role directly supports mission-critical cybersecurity operations protecting sensitive federal data (CUI/PII/PHI/FTI) and aligns to Zero Trust and NIST-based security frameworks. What You’ll Do: Lead Microsoft Sentinel Operations: Drive Detection Engineering & Threat Analytics Integrate and Optimize Microsoft Security Stack Engineer Multi-Source Log Ingestion & Normalization Ensure Data Integrity & Pipeline Health - Serve as the primary SME for Microsoft Sentinel, the enterprise SIEM platform - Design, implement, and optimize analytics rules, correlation logic, and data models -...