[Hiring] Senior Director, Global Cyber Detection & Response @Danaher

Role Description

The Senior Director, Global Cyber Detection & Response is responsible for building and operating Danaher's global threat detection and incident response capability across our operating company portfolio. This leader owns the strategy, engineering, and day-to-day operations of the enterprise SIEM and detection platform, the detection engineering discipline, the security operations center (SOC), and the incident response function. The role is accountable for how quickly Danaher sees, understands, and stops threats across cloud, on-premises, endpoint, identity, OT/ICS, and product environments.

This position reports to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and is part of the Global Information Security organization, located in Washington, D.C. and will be a remote role, with regular travel required to Danaher operating company and manufacturing locations globally.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Own Danaher's global Incident Detection & Response program, including strategy, roadmap, execution, and operational effectiveness across cloud, endpoint, identity, network, OT/ICS, and product environments.
• Lead the architecture, implementation, and operation of the enterprise detection ecosystem, including SIEM, security data lake, UEBA, SOAR, EDR/XDR, and related platforms.
• Own the end-to-end telemetry and detection engineering lifecycle, including log source onboarding, parsing, normalization, and data quality monitoring.
• Build, lead, and continuously mature a global 24x7 cyber defense organization, including SOC analysts, detection engineers, incident responders, threat hunters, and automation engineers.
• Drive adoption of AI, agentic SOC workflows, automation, and threat-informed defense capabilities.
• Establish and govern enterprise incident response and cyber crisis management processes.
• Define, govern, and communicate enterprise cyber defense performance metrics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• 12+ years of information security experience, including direct ownership of security operations, detection engineering, and/or incident response within a global organization.
• Demonstrated success standing up, migrating, or modernizing enterprise-scale SIEM environments.
• Deep expertise across the full detection engineering lifecycle.
• Proven leadership of a 24x7 Security Operations Center (SOC) and incident response function.
• Hands-on experience with modern cyber defense technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale information security organizations through multiple layers of management.
• Experience operating within highly complex, multi-country enterprises spanning 50+ countries.

Requirements

• Ability to travel up to 20-30% of the time, including international travel to Danaher operating company, R&D, SOC, and manufacturing locations globally.

Company Description

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

For more information, visit www.danaher.com .