Lead Cybersecurity Detection Engineer
Cox AutomotiveResponsibilities
- 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.
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About 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. The company has 29,000+ employees on four continents and a portfolio of industry-leading brands that include Autotrader®, Kelley Blue Book®, Manheim®, vAuto®, Dealertrack®, NextGear Capital™, CentralDispatch® and Cox Fleet®. Cox Automotive is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Inc., a privately owned, Atlanta-based company with $23 billion in annual revenue. Cox Automotive has been included on Glassdoor’s Best Companies in Tech & AI 2026 and Best Place to Work in 2026 lists.