Lead Cybersecurity Detection Engineer

Home > Other programming jobs

Lead Cybersecurity Detection Engineer in USA

Cox Automotive
Full time
Email

USA
10/07/2026
Report

Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities

Lead the design, implementation, tuning, and maintenance of enterprise and customer-focused cybersecurity detection capabilities.
Architect agentic AI and multi-agent systems for threat detection, hunting, investigation, attack-pattern recognition, and automated response.
Develop custom detection rules, alerts, remediation playbooks, and SIEM/SOAR automation use cases.
Manage SIEM, data-lake, and log-ingestion infrastructure and improve detection performance, scalability, and coverage.
Collaborate with Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Management, Cybersecurity, Engineering, and Product teams.
Conduct attack simulation and purple-team exercises and incorporate threat intelligence and incident lessons into detection strategies.
Support governance, regulatory compliance, documentation, off-hours security administration, and response activities.
Provide hands-on technical leadership, mentorship, and technical communication to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline and 6+ years of industry-related professional experience.
At least 3 years of experience in a cyber defense role.
Multi-cloud security experience with AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Experience with AI/ML frameworks and prompt engineering for security applications.
Expert-level Detection Engineering knowledge and strong experience in information security, network security, security monitoring, and Incident Response.
Strong experience developing SIEM/SOAR detection and automation use cases.
Experience with threat intelligence, firewalls, SASE, IPS, endpoint security, DLP, SIEM/SOAR, and data lakes.
Expert knowledge of the attack kill chain and diamond model.
Preferred certifications include OSCP, GSEC, GCIA, GFE, GCFA, CISA, CISSP, CISM, or CIA.
DevOps, engineering, network, or systems administration experience and customer-focused detection and response development experience are preferred.

Cox Automotive

Cox Automotive is the world’s largest automotive services and technology provider. Fueled by the largest breadth of first- and third-party data fed by 2.3 billion online interactions a year, Cox Automotive tailors leading solutions for car shoppers, auto manufacturers, dealers, lenders and fleets...

Similar positions

Product Security Engineer

Base Power Company
Full time

USA
10/15/2026

Austin, TX

(Junior) DevOps Engineer Voice

Koninklijke KPN N.V.
Full time

Others
10/15/2026
Salary: DOE

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Full-Stack Engineer - Studio

ElevenLabs
Full time

Remote
10/15/2026

Worldwide

Software Engineer

Asana
Full time

USA
10/15/2026
Salary: $171k - $190k/yr

San Francisco, CA

Senior AI Platform / DevTool Engineer

Progress Partners
Full time

Remote
10/15/2026

Europe, Georgia