Remote OT Incident Response Lead (Public Sector)

Dragos, Inc.; Lennox Park (MD); Remote; USD 153,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Equity Package

Comprehensive Benefits Plan

Job summary

Dragos, Inc. is seeking an Associate Principal Incident Responder to lead OT incident response investigations for federal customers in a remote-first role.

You will direct active response engagements, deliver advisory services, and help mature customer capabilities with playbooks and tabletop exercises. You will represent Dragos as a thought leader, mentor teammates, and collaborate with the Public Sector division to advance incident readiness and response maturity while traveling up to 40% for

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship and an active Top Secret (TS) security clearance.
• 8+ years of hands-on incident response and digital forensics experience with proficiency in at least two forensics domains (network, hardware, memory, disk) -- methodology is more important than tool specialization.
• Proven experience in ICs/OT cybersecurity including knowledge of industrial architecture, threat landscapes, vulnerabilities, and applicable frameworks and standards.
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end investigations, correlate events across multiple data types, and uncover threats through methodical analysis and pivoting.
• Proven incident management and communication ability: able to manage coordination during incidents, guide customers calmly and confidently through high-pressure situations, and author customer-facing documentation, playbooks, and executive briefings.
• Consulting and advisory experience translating technical depth into strategic customer guidance, incident response planning, and recommendations for advancing incident readiness and response maturity.
• Ability to work independently and remotely while coordinating effectively across distributed teams.
• Willingness to travel up to 40% for on-site engagements and active case requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute incident response engagements for OT customers as Incident Commander, including triage, investigations, threat hunts, compromise assessments, and on-call response across onsite and remote environments.
• Conduct post-incident reviews, root-cause analysis, and integrate lessons learned into playbooks, standard operating procedures, and response methodologies
• Develop and deliver advisory services including incident response planning workshops, maturity assessments, playbook design, and tabletop exercises that advance customer readiness.
• Manage customer relationships across onboarding, strategic advisory engagements, and stakeholder communication to align response capabilities with evolving business risk.
• Contribute to research, threat analysis, and thought leadership (whitepapers, webinars, presentations) that influence Dragos methodology and training.
• Mentor and develop teammates through hands-on training and incident guidance; serve as technical escalation point and role model for operational excellence.
• Drive delivery accountability for quality, timeliness, and utilization; partner with internal teams on service expansion, scalability improvements, and represent Dragos mission to customers and industry.

Skills

Incident response

Digital forensics

Leadership

Communication

Remote work

Job description

Dragos, Inc. is seeking an Associate Principal Incident Responder to lead OT incident response investigations for federal customers in a remote-first role.

You will direct active response engagements, deliver advisory services, and help mature customer capabilities with playbooks and tabletop exercises. You will represent Dragos as a thought leader, mentor teammates, and collaborate with the Public Sector division to advance incident readiness and response maturity while traveling up to 40% for