Senior Manager, OT Threat Hunting
Dragos
Dragos is on a relentless mission to defend industrial organizations that provide us with the necessities of modern civilization; running water, functioning electricity, and safe industrial working environments. As the market leader in ICS/OT Cybersecurity, we are dedicated to arming our customers with best-in-class technology, threat intelligence, and services to protect their systems as effectively and efficiently as possible. We’re a remote-first culture with operations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and APAC. We’re looking for mission-oriented teammates who embody our core values of authenticity, transparency, and trust. Are you ready to make a difference? Come join a mission that can save the world!
About the Role:
The Senior Manager, OT Threat Hunting is a key leadership role within the Dragos OT Watch (OTW) team, combining hands‑on technical threat hunting skills with people management experience. This team, comprised of threat hunters and security analysts across North America and Europe, is responsible for proactively hunting both malicious and non‑malicious activity across Dragos customer environments in support of our OT threat hunting offering. OTW operates globally across critical infrastructure sectors such as electric, oil & gas, manufacturing, water, and mining, providing proactive threat hunting across customer environments. It also includes OTW‑Complete (OTWC), a 24/7 managed service that combines continuous threat hunting with deep visibility, risk‑based vulnerability management, alert triage and architecture hardening. This position reports to the Senior Director of Threat Hunting and works cross‑functionally with Product, Customer Experience, and Incident Services teams to drive innovation and intelligence insights across ICS/OT environments. Our ideal candidate has experience delivering proactive hunting services at scale and enjoys balancing deep technical work with team leadership.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and develop a regionally aligned (North America and Europe) team of OT threat hunters and security analysts, fostering technical excellence, analytical rigor, and accountability.
- Manage day‑to‑day operations of OT Watch and OT Watch Complete, partnering closely with the Sr. Director of Threat Hunting on planning, innovation, and resource management.
- Drive collaboration and alignment across threat hunting, detection engineering, and incident response functions to strengthen outcomes and coverage.
- Own delivery against--and continuous refinement of--key performance indicators (KPIs) for OTW Threat Hunting and OTWC services.
- Partner with threat intelligence teams to translate intelligence into prioritized, actionable hunting campaigns.
- Provide executive‑level reporting and insights on hunt outcomes, detection coverage, and emerging threat trends.
- Support team growth and visibility through recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and representing OTW via writing, speaking, and community engagement.
Qualifications:
- At least 5-7 years of experience in cyber defense, threat hunting or detection engineering; at least 2 years mentoring or providing a level of leadership to personnel.
- Demonstrated expertise in threat hunting, hunt hypothesis development and behavioral detection.
- Strong knowledge of attacker TTPs, and common frameworks utilized in threat hunting (MITRE ATT&CK for ICS, ICS Cyber Kill Chain, etc.).
- Familiarity with scripting, query and automation languages such as Python.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to translate complex findings into actionable business insights for customers.
- Ability to travel up to 10% (both domestic and international).
- Experience with industrial control systems security across electric, oil and gas, and/or manufacturing verticals.
Compensation:
- Salary: $205,000
- Competitive Equity Package
- Comprehensive Benefits Plan
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Dragos is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local laws. All new hires must pass a background check as a condition of employment.