Senior Manager of Cybersecurity Detection Engineering

About the position

The Senior Manager of Cybersecurity Detection Engineering will lead a team of Detection Engineers in designing, implementing, and maintaining advanced detection capabilities to safeguard the organization against emerging cyber threats. This pivotal role will enhance Cox Automotive's next-generation Cyber Defense practice, enabling rapid threat response and automated remediation. The position will be responsible for developing the strategy for the Detection Engineering program and establishing metrics to demonstrate continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will possess expert-level knowledge in SIEM implementation and log ingestion, SOAR, Incident Response, and Threat Intelligence that will be data-driven with strong verbal, written communication, and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Define detection engineering strategy, roadmap, and objectives to achieve.
• Design and implement advanced threat detection techniques using tools such as SIEM, EDR, NDR, and SOAR platforms.
• Develop innovative custom detection rules and automated remediation, playbooks, and alerts tailored to the organization's threat landscape for enterprise and customer security.
• Leverage industry standard MITRE frameworks to identify detection coverage and close gaps.
• Monitor, optimize, and continuously improve detection systems for performance, scalability, and effectiveness.
• Collaborate with Threat Detection and Response team to continuously improve cybersecurity capabilities in identification, management, and response to threats in the most efficient and effective manner.
• Perform attack simulation testing to validate efficacy of use cases and purple teaming exercises collaborating with the Vulnerability Management team.
• Manage and maintain SIEM/Data Lake data management and log ingestion infrastructure in collaboration with Cyber Defense Engineering.
• Evaluate, validate, tune, and sunset where necessary detection capabilities.
• Maintain operational guidelines, diagrams, and documentation for security detection and response.
• Collaborate with the incident response team to ensure rapid detection and containment of cyber threats.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance to develop detection use cases during high-severity security incidents.
• Continuously improve detection and response processes based on lessons learned from incidents.
• Provide off hour support as needed for security administration, detection, and response activities.
• Leverage threat intelligence to enhance detection capabilities and proactively mitigate risks.
• Identify and analyze new and emerging threat vectors and incorporate them into detection strategies.
• Partner with other Cybersecurity, Engineering, and Product teams to align detection strategies with organizational objectives.
• Communicate detection capabilities and findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive leadership.
• Ensure all detection processes and tools adhere to regulatory requirements and industry standards (e.g., GDPR, PCI-DSS, NIST).
• Establish and maintain documentation of detection strategies, processes, and configurations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent and 8+ years of industry related professional experience.
• Multi-cloud security experience AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Expert level knowledge on Detection Engineering and Security Operations.
• 5 years of leadership experience.
• Strong experience with Information Security, Network Security, Security Monitoring, and Incident Response.
• Strong experience with developing SIEM/SOAR detection and automation use cases.
• Working experience with industry standard security technologies and services such as Threat Intelligence, Firewalls, SASE, IPS, Endpoint Security, DLP, SIEM/SOAR, and Data Lakes.
• Expert level knowledge on the attack kill chain and diamond model.
• 5+ years' experience in an Incident Response or Security Operations role.
• 3+ years' leadership experience in a SOC or equivalent role.
• Must live within a commutable distance to North Hills NY or Atlanta GA and be willing to come onsite 3x a week.

Nice-to-haves

• GSEC, GCIA, GFE, GCFA, CISA, CISSP, CISM, or CIA certification(s).
• Development/ Dev Ops / Engineering / Network / System Administration experience.

Benefits

• Flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties.
• Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members.
• Additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
• Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision).
• Retirement planning (401(k)).
• Paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO).