Senior Detection & Response Manager (Hybrid, Equity)

Aurora; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 277,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity compensation

Benefits package

Hybrid work environment

Job summary

Aurora is seeking a Senior Manager of Detection & Response to lead and scale the D&R team across Onboard, Cloud, and Enterprise environments. You will manage engineers while staying hands-on with strategy, detection design, and incident response.

You will oversee detection tooling, threat intelligence integration, and cross-functional projects, including log management and SOC workflows, while driving incident response readiness and team development in a hybrid work setting.

Qualifications

• Strong technical foundation in threat detection, incident response, and forensic analysis.
• Demonstrated experience defining and executing a technical strategy or roadmap.
• Experience with security tools like SIEM, EDR, NDR.
• Experience authoring and maintaining detections (anomalous, network, host, or cloud activity).
• Experience securing operating systems (Linux, macOS, Windows).
• Strong understanding of cloud-native environments (AWS, Kubernetes) and securing them.
• Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Git, Terraform).
• End-to-end incident management experience, driving cross-departmental collaboration to contain incidents.
• Deep knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK framework and modern adversarial techniques; understanding of NIST CSF.
• Ability to write quality, testable code in Python, C++.
• 10+ years of progressive security experience, 3+ as a manager leading, mentoring, and managing a high-performing cybersecurity engineering or operations team.

Responsibilities

• Oversee design, development, and implementation of detections and tooling across Cloud, Enterprise, and On-Vehicle environments (SIEM, EDR, network anomaly detection, incident response automation, forensics)
• Drive integration of threat intelligence into detection strategy and champion proactive threat hunting
• Drive solutions for cross-functional projects that touch D&R (e.g., centralized log management, CAN-IDS integration with the Onboard Detection Engine, Security Operations Center workflows and improvements)
• Collaborate with Incident Response and Security Operations during investigations; ensure the team has the tools, processes, and training needed to respond effectively, minimizing impact; participate in an on-call rotation, providing leadership during critical incidents
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of cybersecurity engineers; foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and professional development; conduct regular one-on-ones and performance reviews
• Drive quarterly and annual planning, tracking, and reporting to improve D&R capabilities

Skills

Threat detection

Incident response

Forensic analysis

Technical strategy

Python

C++

AWS

Kubernetes

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Tools

SIEM

EDR

NDR

Git

Terraform

Job description

Aurora is seeking a Senior Manager of Detection & Response to lead and scale the D&R team across Onboard, Cloud, and Enterprise environments. You will manage engineers while staying hands-on with strategy, detection design, and incident response.

You will oversee detection tooling, threat intelligence integration, and cross-functional projects, including log management and SOC workflows, while driving incident response readiness and team development in a hybrid work setting.