Remote Senior OT Security Analyst-Industrial Cyber Defender

Dragos, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Dragos, Inc. is seeking a Senior OT Security Analyst to lead frontline monitoring and triage within the OT Watch Complete team. You will mentor junior analysts, investigate anomalous activity, and support threat hunters and incident responders with clear escalations.

You will operate and maintain the Dragos platform for customers, manage vulnerabilities, tune detections, classify OT assets, and provide input on response recommendations in a remote-first, cross-region environment.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in network security and threat investigation.
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP, firewalls, DNS, and packet analysis.
• Hands-on experience with IDS/IPS, SIEM, or network analysis tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication translating findings for teams and customers.
• Interest in ICS/OT cybersecurity and critical infrastructure defense.

Responsibilities

• Lead shift operations, guiding analysts as they triage detection alerts and network telemetry from the Dragos Platform across customer OT environments — stepping in as shift leader for your region when needed.
• Serve as a senior investigator, digging into suspicious activity to identify misconfigurations, anomalies, and potential malicious behavior across industrial networks.
• Apply deep analysis and context to escalate findings to Incident Responders and threat hunters with clear, actionable documentation.
• Partner across teams — analysts, threat hunters, incident responders, platform engineers, and Detection Engineering — to tune detection logic, reduce false positives, and shape new Dragos Platform detections and playbooks.
• Write and deliver incident summaries and operational reports that give internal stakeholders and customers a clear read on what's happening in their environment.
• Support the full scope of OT Watch Complete, from asset classification and vulnerability management to hardening recommendations and direct customer information requests.
• Build expertise continuously in ICS/OT protocols, adversary tradecraft, and threat intelligence specific to industrial environments.

Skills

Network security

Threat investigation

Security monitoring

Technical reporting

Remote work coordination

Tools

IDS/IPS

SIEM

Network analyzers

Job description

Dragos, Inc. is seeking a Senior OT Security Analyst to lead frontline monitoring and triage within the OT Watch Complete team. You will mentor junior analysts, investigate anomalous activity, and support threat hunters and incident responders with clear escalations.

You will operate and maintain the Dragos platform for customers, manage vulnerabilities, tune detections, classify OT assets, and provide input on response recommendations in a remote-first, cross-region environment.