# Senior Detection Engineer, Federal

**Company:** [Ramp](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ramp)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $160k – $221k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Elk, Datadog, Panther, Tines, Swimlane, SIEM, Security Incident Response, Soc, Log Management, Threat Detection
**Posted:** 2026-03-05

> Senior Detection Engineer responds to security incidents, triages alerts, tunes runbooks, and builds automation for threat detection in federal environments. Requires 3-4 years IT experience, SOC background, and log analysis tools like ELK/Datadog.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
- Respond and assist with security requests and incidents submitted by Ramp team members
- Review logging, alerting, and audit sources to identify potential security incidents and perform initial triage
- Contribute to the creation, upkeep, and tuning of runbooks and security alerts
- Work closely with Ramp Security Engineers to improve security alerting and automated remediation
- Utilize log ingestion platform for security analytics and identification of attacker tactics, techniques, and patterns
- Design and implement automation to detect and respond to threats

## What You Need
- 3-4 years of information technology experience or equivalent
- Working experience in information security, especially on a C/SIRT, CERT, CSIRC, or SOC
- Experience with query-based log management solutions (**ELK**, **Datadog**, **Panther**, etc.)
- Strong deductive reasoning and critical thinking skills
- Ability to communicate complex security issues clearly
- Strong written communication skills

## Nice to Haves
- Prior experience working with government entities or in highly regulated environments
- Security certifications such as **CompTIA Security+**, **Network+**, etc.
- Experience with workflow automation tooling (**Tines**, **Swimlane**, etc.)

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