Lead Cybersecurity Detection Engineer

The Lead Cybersecurity Detection Engineering will be a part of a team of Detection Engineers to design, implement, and maintain advanced detection capabilities, protecting the organization from emerging cyber threats. This crucial role will enhance Cox Automotive's next-generation Cyber Defense practice, enabling rapid threat response and automated remediation.

This role involves collaborating with cross-functional Engineering teams, build innovative threat detection and response use cases, and leverage threat intelligence to proactively monitor emerging threat vectors. The ideal candidate will have expert-level knowledge in SIEM implementation and log ingestion, Incident Response, and Threat Intelligence, and will be data-driven.

Cybersecurity Detection Engineering: Design advanced threat detection techniques using tools such as SIEM, EDR, NDR, and SOAR platforms. Develop detection-as-code 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 show detection coverage and gaps.

Monitor, optimize, and continuously improve detection systems for performance, scalability, and effectiveness. Work alongside the Threat Detection and Response team to continuously improve cybersecurity capabilities in identification, management, and response to threats in the most efficient and effective manner. Performs attack simulation testing to validate efficacy of use cases and purple teaming exercises collaborating with the Vulnerability Mgmt team.