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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 are immediately at risk. We are the global leader in xOT cybersecurity, combining technology, threat intelligence, and expert services. The people here chose this work because they understand what is at 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. \nAbout the Role: \nDragos 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:\nBe self-motivated, persistent, and creative in the face of complex technical challenges.\nAlign with the thought process of a cyber adversary and the ICS Cyber Kill Chain to predict the desired outcome of an attack.\nBe a team player on a fast-moving team focused on rapidly innovating the state of industrial security.\nOpenly share information at every opportunity to enhance the knowledge of your team.\nContinuously invest in and expand your knowledge of ICS technologies.\nAt 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.\nResponsibilities: \nCreate ICS-focused threat detections (atomic, component, composite, and events) and Asset Identification analytics based on assigned tickets.\nMentor Detection Engineers by engaging them in your detection development process and delegating portions of detection development they are ready to own.\nEngage with Principal Detection Engineers to support their detection development initiatives through analysis of packet captures and Windows host logs.\nTest, validate, and tune detections created by the Intel Detection team, including rules submitted by trusted advisors and industry partners, for analytic quality control.\nLead the review, triage, and response for detection requests submitted to the Intel Detection Support board, enriching tickets with PCAPs, links, tags, and documentation.\nDrive 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.\nAnalyze 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.\nAnalyze cyber threat intelligence reporting to create detection ideation tasks for threat behavior-based detections and Asset Identification.\nPartner with the Engineering, OT Watch, and Quality Engineering teams to identify protocol coverage gaps and resolve detection issues in the Dragos Platform.\nGive and receive peer feedback on a normal cadence as part of our review cycle.\nQualifications: \nRequired:\n8+ years in security operations, threat hunting, or detection development, OR offensive operations, threat emulation, or security tool development\n2+ years of experience operationalizing cyber threat intelligence to defend networks from emerging threats\n1+ years of direct experience with SCADA, DCS, building automation, or other industrial control system devices and environments\nAdvanced network packet analysis and manipulation using tools such as Wireshark, Tshark, ngrep, tcpdump, Zeek, and Scapy\nWorking knowledge of Windows Event Logging fundamentals, including enabling and reviewing event logs, adjusting log size and retention settings, and enabling Advanced Audit Policies\nAwareness of common operating system internals and the ability to identify analytic opportunities\nComfortable working with multi-gigabyte host and network datasets\nApplied knowledge of network communication fundamentals\nProven ability to mentor and develop junior detection engineers\nAdept at both verbal presentation and technical writing\nPreferred:\nExperience creating detections using technologies such as Suricata, Snort, YARA, or Zeek\nPrior experience producing cyber threat intelligence reports or working with threat intelligence to understand and counter adversary operations\nDevelopment experience with programming languages such as Python, Rust, Ruby, Go, or Lua\nExperience with SOC platforms such as Splunk or Elasticsearch (including the ECS schema)\nExperience incorporating AI tools, models, or services into detection engineering workflows\nPrior experience with ICS network assessments or ICS penetration testing\nWindows and Linux system administration, networking and firewalls, and virtualization experience\nCybersecurity certifications such as SANS GICSP, GRID, GCTI, GCIA, GCIH, or GCDA; Offensive Security OSCP, OSEP, or OSED; CompTIA CySA+ or PenTest+; or similar\nAbility to travel (less than 10%) for internal team activities, conferences, and customer sites to collect and analyze data\nCompensation: \nSalary: $152,000\nCompetitive Equity Package \nComprehensive Benefits Plan \n#LI-JF1 #LI-REMOTE \n#LI-NH1 #LI-REMOTE \nDragos is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local laws. 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