Director – Cyber Defense

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🔥 19 hours ago

🌽 Illinois, Kansas – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote 🌪️ Kansas – Remote

💵 $170k - $195k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Koch

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10,000+ employees

🏭 Manufacturing

⚡ Energy

📦 Logistics

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $224M Venture Round on 2026-03

Manufacturing • Energy • Logistics

Koch is a privately held, diversified conglomerate that acquires, creates, develops and invests in a broad portfolio of companies spanning everyday essentials, industrial products, energy and software. Growing from a small Midwest business into one of the largest private companies globally, Koch’s subsidiaries include businesses in paper goods, chemicals and materials, engineered products, logistics, and energy operations. The company emphasizes Principle Based Management™, long-term stewardship, innovation, and community and environmental initiatives across its operating companies.

📋 Description

• Define and execute the global cyber defense strategy, operating model, roadmap, investments, and performance measures • Direct vulnerability management and CTEM to identify, prioritize, validate, and reduce exploitable vulnerabilities and material attack paths • Own integrated application, endpoint, network, email, identity, cloud, infrastructure, and OT defense capabilities across the enterprise • Own enterprise application security across internally developed applications, commercial software, APIs, cloud-native workloads, and business-critical platforms • Define and refine the global Koch SOC capabilities to address Molex’s evolving needs • Lead major cybersecurity incident readiness and response, including tabletop exercises, containment, recovery, communications, and lessons learned • Partner with Koch technology, Molex Digital, engineering, manufacturing, product, legal, compliance, risk, and business leaders • Drive threat-informed, risk-based investments using business criticality, exploitability, threat intelligence, exposure, and potential impact • Develop talent and improve resilience, automation, operational effectiveness, and cost efficiency • Report to the Business Information Security Officer

🎯 Requirements

• 10 or more years of progressive experience in cybersecurity in global organizations • Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience • Progressive cybersecurity experience with substantial leadership accountability for enterprise cyber defense, incident response, vulnerability management, or related functions • Experience leading global or geographically distributed cybersecurity teams in a complex multinational organization • Experience developing and executing enterprise cybersecurity strategies, operating models, budgets, technology roadmaps, and measurable improvement programs • Experience leading major cyber incident response and communicating material cyber risk to executive leadership • Experience partnering across infrastructure, application engineering, cloud, manufacturing, OT, product development, and business functions • Ability to travel 10–20% domestically and internationally • CISSP, CISM, GIAC, or equivalent professional certification preferred • Experience establishing or transforming a global SOC, incident response capability, threat hunting program, CTEM program, or vulnerability management function • Experience with industrial cybersecurity at scale and ICS-dependent manufacturing operations • Experience supporting regulated, industrial, manufacturing, engineering-intensive, or safety-critical businesses

🏖️ Benefits

• Variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form • Medical, dental, and vision coverage • Flexible spending and health savings accounts • Life insurance • Accidental death and dismemberment (ADD) coverage • Disability coverage • Retirement benefits • Paid vacation/time off • Educational assistance • Infertility assistance • Paid parental leave • Adoption assistance • Flexible work environment

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