Director, Global Cybersecurity

Location: USA-VA-Arlington; in-office 4 days per week. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.

Company

hirify.global delivers intelligent energy storage and optimization software and operational services for renewable energy and storage markets.

What you will do

• Lead global security monitoring, threat detection, threat hunting, and incident response across corporate IT, cloud, identity, endpoint, application, network, and OT environments.
• Direct investigation, containment, eradication, recovery, evidence preservation, communications, and lessons learned for significant cybersecurity incidents.
• Oversee SIEM, endpoint and network detection, threat intelligence, security automation, detection engineering, alert tuning, and response playbooks.
• Lead cybersecurity operations for battery energy storage systems and customer-facing OT environments, including monitoring, remote access, vulnerability remediation, and customer-reported events.
• Define the cybersecurity infrastructure roadmap and improve security platform architecture, integration, resilience, automation, and lifecycle management.
• Lead governance, risk, compliance, metrics, executive reporting, security awareness, vendors, and a globally distributed cybersecurity team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 15 years of progressive experience in cybersecurity operations, incident response, security engineering, infrastructure security, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience leading significant cybersecurity incidents involving multiple technical and business stakeholders.
• Strong experience with SIEM, endpoint detection and response, network security monitoring, identity protection, cloud security, threat intelligence, security automation, and incident-response technologies.
• Experience operating security capabilities across Microsoft Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Mastery of cybersecurity governance, risk management, incident response, and control frameworks, including operationalizing NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO/IEC 27001, and IEC 62443 across enterprise and OT environments.
• Ability to communicate complex technical risks clearly to executives, customers, legal counsel, auditors, and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Ability to inhirify.global teams and drive remediation without relying solely on formal authority.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in cybersecurity, information technology, engineering, business, or a related field.
• Experience securing or monitoring industrial control systems, OT, energy infrastructure, manufacturing environments, or customer-owned critical systems.
• Experience building or maturing a global security operations or incident-response function.
• Experience with Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, Tenable, Darktrace, Microsoft Purview, BeyondTrust, or comparable platforms.
• Experience supporting cybersecurity certifications, audits, customer assurance, regulatory examinations, or critical-infrastructure requirements.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC Certified Incident Handler, GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst, or equivalent.

Culture & Benefits

• Culture emphasizes openness, active listening, collaboration, customer focus, ownership, innovation, and sustainable impact.
• Full-time, in-office work arrangement with four days in the office.
• Role includes leadership of a globally distributed cybersecurity team, on-call expectations, succession coverage, cross-training, and documented operating procedures.
• Employment is subject to United States work authorization without employer visa sponsorship.