Sr. Principal Threat Intelligence Engineer- Remote or Hybrid in MN or DC

UnitedHealth Group•Washington, DC

1d•$134,600 - $230,800•Hybrid

About The Position

Explore opportunities with the Enterprise Information Security (EIS) team at UnitedHealth Group. Join one of the world's largest health care companies and become part of the first line of defense against security threats. We are focused on strengthening our cyber defenses, ransomware resiliency, vulnerability mitigation, and securing all aspects of our systems and data globally. We are passionate about protecting the sensitive data of our members and providers. We are committed to leveraging every tool, partnership and process needed to enhance our security posture. It is our duty to protect the information of those we serve while Caring. Connecting. Growing together. The Enterprise Information Security (EIS) team is responsible for cybersecurity across our organization. We support our business and members by reducing risk, rapidly responding to threats, focusing on business resiliency and securing new acquisitions. The Senior Principal Threat Intelligence Engineer is responsible for designing, deploying and integrating threat intelligence technical capabilities across United Health Group's security ecosystem. The role focuses on ingesting, normalizing, and enriching threat intelligence information, integrating Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs) and intelligence sources with security tooling (e.g., SIEM, SOAR, EDR), and deploying automated intelligence-enabled detection and response workflows. The ideal candidate combines solid software engineering skills with deep cybersecurity domain knowledge to transform raw threat data into actionable intelligence that enhances detection, response, and risk mitigation. This technical role focuses on building automation, data pipelines, and detection mechanisms to proactively defend infrastructure against threats of varying technical sophistication. The Senior Principal Threat Intelligence Engineer is expected to conceptualize, guide, and execute the delivery of technical intelligence solutions to CTI, SOC, Threat Detection, and Threat Hunting teams that accelerate the processing and dissemination of intelligence, increase speed of detection, and enable rapid response. The Senior Principal Threat Intelligence Engineer will be a key driver of the technology development and deployment agenda within the CTI space at United Health Group to include tool selection, architectural design, tool development, and operational support. This role will have a primary voice in design decisions, tool selection, and tool development, and will be expected to exert senior influence and operate autonomously as required.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in a cyber threat intelligence, cyber security engineering, incident response or malware analysis role with heavy emphasis on tool and technology integration
Proven solid coding ability is essential for this role due to the need for automation, integration, and data engineering
Proficiency in one or more of: Python (primary) for automation, API integrations, and data processing; Java, JavaScript/Node.js, or Go for service development
Experience with: REST APIs, JSON, STIX/TAXII protocols
Data parsing, transformation, and pipeline development
Scripting (Bash, PowerShell)
Demonstrated familiarity with version control (Git) and CI/CD pipelines
Demonstrated familiarity with a variety of OS’s and platforms including Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, Kali), AWS, Docker, Windows Server (NT through 2012), Active Directory, Mac OS X
Experiences with AI employment in a threat intelligence framework including LLM, MCP server configuration, RAG and associated processes.
Hands-on experience with TIPs such as: MISP, OpenCTI, ThreatConnect, Anomali
Experience integrating multiple intelligence feeds and formats
Proven understanding of IOC lifecycle management and enrichment techniques
Solid experience with SIEM platforms: Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM QRadar, Elastic
Experience building detection rules, correlation searches, and dashboards
Demonstrated understanding of log ingestion, normalization, and enrichment pipelines
Experience with SOAR platforms such as Cortex XSOAR, Splunk SOAR, Swimlane, Tines
Development of playbooks/runbooks for automated response
Proven knowledge of orchestration across multiple security tools

Nice To Haves

Relevant certifications (e.g., GCTI, GCIA, CISSP, Splunk certifications)
Demonstrated familiarity with EDR/XDR, IDS/IPS, firewalls, cloud security tools
Proven knowledge of structured threat data formats (STIX, TAXII)
Experience in large-scale security operations or SOC environments
Familiarity with data engineering technologies (Kafka, Spark, Elasticsearch)
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and security integrations
Experience in threat hunting and detection engineering

Responsibilities

Deploy, integrate, and maintain a threat intelligence platform that is integrated into United Health's security tooling ecosystem
Integrate threat intelligence into SIEM platforms (e.g., Splunk) for detection use cases and alert enrichment
Efficiently employ agentic AI, LLMs, and other associated capabilities to increase the availability and speed of delivery of contextualized threat intelligence to CTI, SOC, IR, and other SecOps members
Design, build, and deploy technology-supported workflows to execute diverse intelligence use cases across SOC, IR, Insider Risk, Fraud, Red Team, Threat Hunt, and other stakeholder environments
Develop and maintain SOAR playbooks for automated threat response and enrichment; utilize SOAR to optimize intelligence workflows
Orchestrate workflows across security tools to reduce manual analysis and response time
Design, build, and maintain integrations between threat intelligence feeds (commercial, open-source, ISACs) and internal security platforms
Integrate and operationalize Threat Intelligence Platforms (e.g., MISP, OpenCTI ThreatConnect, Anomali, ThreatQuotient) with enterprise security tools
Develop pipelines to ingest, normalize, deduplicate, and enrich Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and threat data
Correlate intelligence with telemetry from SIEM, EDR, NDR, and cloud security tools to improve detection fidelity
Enable automated enrichment of alerts using threat intelligence data within SIEM workflows