Director – Cyber Defense

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Develop and implement the worldwide cyber defense strategy, operational framework, roadmap, investments, and performance metrics.

• Oversee vulnerability management and CTEM to identify, prioritize, validate, and mitigate exploitable vulnerabilities and significant attack vectors.

• Manage integrated defense capabilities for applications, endpoints, networks, email, identity, cloud, infrastructure, and OT throughout the organization.

• Supervise enterprise application security for internally created applications, commercial software, APIs, cloud-native workloads, and critical business platforms.

• Define and enhance the global Koch SOC capabilities to meet the evolving requirements of Molex.

• Lead major cybersecurity incident preparedness and response, including tabletop exercises, containment, recovery, communication, and lessons learned.

• Collaborate with Koch technology, Molex Digital, engineering, manufacturing, product, legal, compliance, risk, and business leaders.

• Promote threat-informed, risk-based investments based on business criticality, exploitability, threat intelligence, exposure, and potential impact.

• Cultivate talent and enhance resilience, automation, operational efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.

• Report directly to the Business Information Security Officer.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in cybersecurity within global organizations.

• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• Extensive cybersecurity experience with significant leadership responsibility in enterprise cyber defense, incident response, vulnerability management, or similar roles.

• Proven experience leading global or geographically dispersed cybersecurity teams within a complex multinational environment.

• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement enterprise cybersecurity strategies, operational models, budgets, technology roadmaps, and measurable improvement initiatives.

• Experience managing major cyber incident responses and effectively communicating significant cyber risks to executive leadership.

• Proven ability to collaborate across infrastructure, application engineering, cloud, manufacturing, OT, product development, and business functions.

• Willingness to travel 10–20% domestically and internationally.

• Preferred certifications: CISSP, CISM, GIAC, or equivalent professional credential.

• Experience in establishing or transforming a global SOC, incident response capability, threat hunting program, CTEM program, or vulnerability management function.

• Familiarity with industrial cybersecurity at scale and ICS-dependent manufacturing operations.

• Experience in regulated, industrial, manufacturing, engineering-intensive, or safety-critical sectors.

🏝️ Benefits

• Variable pay, provided as a monetary bonus or in another format.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.

• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.

• Life insurance coverage.

• Accidental death and dismemberment (ADD) insurance.

• Disability insurance coverage.

• Retirement benefits.

• Paid vacation and time off.

• Educational support.

• Infertility support.

• Paid parental leave.

• Adoption support.

• Flexible work environment.