- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Work style
- Remote
- Area
- Defence & SOC
At a glance
The role in plain English
This role leads incident response for industrial and operational technology (OT) customers across Europe. It suits experienced responders with strong investigation and advisory skills, especially in ICS/OT environments. Day-to-day work includes running investigations, managing incidents, delivering workshops, and advising on IR maturity. The position involves mentoring, developing methodologies, and engaging with stakeholders. Travel within and outside Germany is required, and the role is remote-first for residents of Germany.
What you'll do
- Lead incident response and investigations for industrial customers
- Act as Incident Commander during active incidents
- Conduct after-action reviews and update playbooks
- Deliver advisory services such as workshops and assessments
- Mentor teammates and provide technical escalation support
What they're looking for
Essential
- German residency
- Fluent German and working English proficiency
- 8+ years incident response and forensics experience
- Experience in ICS/OT cybersecurity
- Consulting or advisory experience
Nice to have
- Familiarity with NIS2, IT-SiG 2.0, BSI KRITIS
- Experience with IEC 62443 and NIST CSF
Core skills
- Incident response
- Digital forensics
- ICS/OT security
- Threat hunting
- Root-cause analysis
- Advisory services
- Stakeholder engagement
The shape of the job
Technical depth
4/5
Pace
4/5
Ownership
5/5
Teamwork
4/5
Cyberend's reading of the listing, not the employer's own scores.
Application toolkit
Make your application count
See which requirements your CV meets and what is missing.
Your CV is used for this answer only and never stored.
Questions to prepare for
- 01Describe your approach to leading an OT incident response engagement.
- 02How do you adapt IR methodologies for industrial environments?
- 03Explain your experience with European OT regulations such as NIS2 or BSI KRITIS.
- 04How do you communicate technical findings to executive stakeholders during an incident?
About Dragos
Dragos provides cybersecurity services and technology for industrial and operational technology (OT) environments, focusing on critical infrastructure.
Full job descriptionAs published by Dragos
At Dragos, the mission is personal. The systems we protect deliver the water you drink, power your home, and keep the hospitals your community depends on running. Those critical infrastructure systems that power our civilization around the world are under attack every day by adversaries. When those systems fail, people are immediately at risk. We are the global leader in xOT cybersecurity, combining technology, threat intelligence, and expert services. The people here chose this work because they understand what is at stake . Here, you will find a remote-first mission-driven team across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and APAC built on authenticity, transparency, and trust. If safeguarding the systems that protect your family, friends, and community is the kind of work that matters to you, you are in the right place.
About the Role :
Dragos is hiring an Associate Principal Incident Responder in Germany to lead OT incident response and strengthen customer IR maturity across Europe. You’ll run active investigations and deliver advisory work, including maturity assessments, tabletop exercises, and purple teaming, while improving our IR methodologies and representing Dragos as a thought leader. Ideal for practitioners who are equally strong executing investigations and advising on strategy.
Responsibilities :
- Lead incident response engagements for industrial customers, onsite and remotely, including investigations, threat hunts, triage, and compromise assessments.
- Serve as Incident Commander during active incidents, delivering decision-grade guidance and managing communications throughout the response lifecycle.
- Drive investigations to resolution across industrial environments, from root-cause analysis to containment and remediation strategy, with participation in the on-call rotation.
- Own the post-incident loop by conducting after-action reviews and feeding lessons learned into playbooks and procedures.
- Deliver advisory services such as IR planning workshops, tabletop exercises, and maturity assessments that align response capabilities with business risk.
- Mentor teammates and act as a technical escalation point, while staying accountable for delivery quality, timeliness, and utilization.
- Build customer relationships and strengthen Dragos services through stakeholder engagement, research and thought leadership, and input on service offerings and delivery models.
Qualifications :
- Must be a German resident.
- Fluent in German with a working proficiency in English .
- 8+ years of hands-on incident response and digital forensics experience, with lead-level scope and depth in at least two of network, hardware (controllers/instrumentation), memory, or disk forensics. Methodology mastery matters more than tool specialization.
- Proven ability to lead end-to-end investigations, correlating events across data types to uncover threats, hunt malicious activity, and coordinate communications during incidents.
- Experience in ICS/OT cybersecurity, including industrial architecture, threat landscapes, vulnerabilities, and frameworks and standards.
- Experience in industrial environments (asset owner, operator, integrator, or consultant), with the ability to advise at both technical and enterprise-strategy levels.
- Consulting or advisory experience, translating technical depth into strategic guidance, with excellent written and verbal communication, including customer-facing documentation, playbooks, executive briefings, and calm leadership during high-pressure incidents.
- Familiarity with the European and German OT regulatory context: NIS2, IT-SiG 2.0, BSI KRITIS, IEC 62443, and NIST CSF.
- Willingness to travel up to 40% (domestic and international) to support customer engagements.
Compensation :
- Salary: €120,000
- Competitive Equity Package
- Comprehensive Benefits Plan
#LI-JF1 #LI-REMOTE
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.