Cybersecurity Threat Detection – Automation Manager

Job Description:

• Lead, manage, mentor, and develop a team of detection engineering and automation professionals
• Define and execute threat detection and automation strategy aligned with business risk, operational needs, threat landscape, compliance requirements, and organizational priorities
• Establish intake, prioritization, backlog management, planning, peer review, release readiness, metrics, and continuous improvement processes
• Design, develop, tune, and optimize threat detection logic across SIEM, EDR, identity, cloud, email, network, OT, SaaS, and other security platforms
• Own high-impact detections for complex use cases, crown jewel risks, advanced adversary behaviors, and top enterprise threats
• Translate adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures into actionable analytics using MITRE ATT&CK, threat intelligence, incident findings, red team results, vulnerability exposure, and business risk
• Conduct detection gap analysis and threat modeling
• Build detection validation practices, test cases, regression checks, tuning evidence, performance monitoring, and analyst feedback loops
• Lead SIEM and SOAR detection and response workflows
• Build SIEM content including correlation rules, notable events, dashboards, risk-based alerts, data models, investigation views, and alert enrichment
• Develop SOAR playbooks for enrichment, triage, evidence collection, case creation, containment recommendations, response actions, and analyst decision support
• Drive integrations across SIEM, SOAR, EDR, email security, identity, threat intelligence, ITSM, cloud, network, PAM, DLP/CASB, and OT monitoring platforms
• Build and mature the detection and automation lifecycle from intake through retirement
• Manage the detection and automation roadmap and program metrics
• Maintain audit-ready documentation and evidence
• Communicate strategy, risk coverage, maturity, roadmap, and outcomes to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive leadership

Requirements:

• 10+ years of cybersecurity experience working in SOC and creating SIEM correlations/detections and automating incident information enrichment tasks
• Experience building mature detection lifecycle practices
• Experience building SOAR playbooks and automation workflows
• Experience with detection-as-code, Git-based content management, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, reusable detection templates, and scalable engineering patterns
• Experience operationalizing threat intelligence
• Experience designing detections for identity-based attacks
• Experience designing detections across endpoint, email, network, cloud, SaaS, OT/ICS, DLP, and privileged access use cases
• Experience working in large, complex enterprise or manufacturing environments
• Experience partnering with SOC, Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Management, Cloud, Identity, Network, OT, Legal, Privacy, GRC, and IT teams
• Ability to distinguish between detection, telemetry, control, ownership, and response process gaps
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and advise team members across cultural, geographic, technical, and generational boundaries
• Writing and tuning SIEM detections
• Splunk SPL, risk-based alerting, notable events, dashboards, and correlation searches
• SOAR playbook design and automation guardrails
• Detection validation, regression testing, tuning, and release readiness
• MITRE ATT&CK mapping and coverage measurement
• Threat-informed detection engineering
• Identity attack detection, including Entra ID, MFA abuse, token theft, OAuth abuse, suspicious consent grants, and privileged role changes
• Endpoint detection and response workflows
• Phishing, malware, suspicious email, and account compromise use cases
• Cloud security detections and CNAPP telemetry
• Network, DNS, proxy, firewall, VPN, and GlobalProtect telemetry
• OT/ICS monitoring considerations in manufacturing environments
• Privileged access monitoring and CyberArk-style PAM telemetry
• Threat intelligence enrichment and operationalization
• Case management, ITSM integration, and analyst workflow improvement
• Detection-as-code, Git, CI/CD, reusable templates, and content lifecycle management

Benefits:

• Equal employment opportunity policy
• Off-site remote work arrangement