Senior Threat Detection Engineer

At Dragos, the mission is personal. The systems we protect deliver the water you drink, power your home, and keep the hospitals your community depends on running. Those critical infrastructure systems that power our civilization around the world are under attack every day by adversaries. When those systems fail, people areimmediatelyat risk.

We are the global leader inxOTcybersecurity, combining technology, threat intelligence, and expert services. The people here chose this work because they understand what isat stake. Here, you will find a remote-first mission-driven team across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and APAC built on authenticity, transparency, and trust. If safeguarding the systems that protect your family, friends, and community is the kind of work that matters to you, you are in the right place.

Dragos is seeking a Senior Detection Engineer to join our Detection Engineering team, which plays a pivotal role in our customers’ ability to identify and respond to threats targeting their OT environments by turning cyber threat intelligence into high-fidelity, performant detections. Backed by the industry’s largest and most experienced team of industrial control systems (ICS) cybersecurity practitioners, Dragos ICS Cyber Threat Intelligence provides in-depth visibility of threats targeting industrial environments globally.

As emerging threats to ICS environments are identified, the Detection team studies those threat behaviors and creates atomic, component, and composite detections for the Dragos Platform. To be successful at Dragos you will need to:

• Be self-motivated, persistent, and creative in the face of complex technical challenges.
• Align with the thought process of a cyber adversary and the ICS Cyber Kill Chain to predict the desired outcome of an attack.
• Be a team player on a fast-moving team focused on rapidly innovating the state of industrial security.
• Openly share information at every opportunity to enhance the knowledge of your team.
• Continuously invest in and expand your knowledge of ICS technologies.

At Dragos, we don’t hire engineers whose only mission in life is to write detection rules. We are looking for detection engineers who yearn to contribute to more than just an analytic portfolio and who are willing to stretch themselves to accomplish the mission.

• Create ICS-focused threat detections (atomic, component, composite, and events) and Asset Identification analytics based on assigned tickets.
• Mentor Detection Engineers by engaging them in your detection development process and delegating portions of detection development they are ready to own.
• Engage with Principal Detection Engineers to support their detection development initiatives through analysis of packet captures and Windows host logs.
• Test, validate, and tune detections created by the Intel Detection team, including rules submitted by trusted advisors and industry partners, for analytic quality control.
• Lead the review, triage, and response for detection requests submitted to the Intel Detection Support board, enriching tickets with PCAPs, links, tags, and documentation.
• Drive documentation of processes for authoring, validating, and testing analytics released in Dragos Platform Knowledge Packs (KPs), and keep the knowledgebase current on reported issues, false positives, and detection questions.
• Analyze artifacts collected from ICS equipment, embedded devices, firewalls, network devices, and ICS software, and support staging and artifact collection within the Dragos ICS Cyber Range.
• Analyze cyber threat intelligence reporting to create detection ideation tasks for threat behavior-based detections and Asset Identification.
• Partner with the Engineering, OT Watch, and Quality…