Director, Global Cybersecurity

Villari; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluence seeks a Director of Global Cybersecurity to lead the company’s worldwide security operations, threat detection, incident response, and security awareness programs. You will oversee OT security and customer-facing protections while guiding cross-functional teams and external partners.

Reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer, you will drive security monitoring, incident response playbooks, and program improvements across corporate IT, cloud, and OT environments.

Qualifications

• Deep experience leading global security operations and incident response across IT, cloud, and OT environments.
• Strong leadership and collaboration with cross-functional teams and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead global security monitoring, threat detection, threat hunting, and incident response across IT, cloud, identity, endpoint, application, network, and OT environments.
• Direct incident triage, investigation, containment, eradication, recovery, and communications for significant cybersecurity events.
• Oversee SIEM, endpoint detection and response, network detection, threat intel, and security automation with playbooks and escalation criteria.
• Serve as incident commander coordinating with Fluence, external counsel, insurers, and forensic partners.
• Maintain and improve the global Incident Response Plan and readiness metrics.
• Lead OT cybersecurity operations for Battery Energy Storage System and other customer-facing OT environments.
• Define OT monitoring, logging, remote access, detection, escalation, and evidence-preservation requirements.
• Coordinate intake, assessment, investigation, and resolution of customer cybersecurity events.
• Drive remediation of material OT vulnerabilities and escalate unresolved issues to CISO and governance bodies.
• Support cybersecurity standards like NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27001, IEC 62443.
• Lead Fluence’s global security awareness and human-risk program with phishing simulations, learning, and communications.

Skills

Security monitoring

Incident response

OT security

Security awareness

Job description

Job Description

Fluence (Nasdaq: FLNC) is a global market leader delivering intelligent energy storage and optimization software for renewables and storage. Our solutions and operational services are helping to create a more resilient grid and unlock the full potential of renewable portfolios. With gigawatts of successful implementations across nearly 50 markets, we are transforming the way we power our world for a more sustainable future. For more information, please visit fluenceenergy.com.

DIRECTOR, GLOBAL CYBERSECURITY

Reporting to: Chief Information Security Officer

Fluence (Nasdaq: FLNC) is a global market leader delivering intelligent energy storage and optimization software for renewables and storage. Our solutions and operational services are helping to create a more resilient grid and unlock the full potential of renewable portfolios. With gigawatts of successful implementations across nearly 50 markets, we are transforming the way we power our world for a more sustainable future. For more information, please visit fluenceenergy.com.

Role Overview

The Director, Global Cybersecurity leads Fluence’s global cybersecurity operations and strengthens the organization’s ability to identify, investigate, contain, and recover from cybersecurity threats across corporate IT, cloud, customer-facing, and operational technology environments. Reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer, this role provides strategic and operational leadership for security monitoring, threat detection, incident response, security awareness, OT security operations, and the cybersecurity technology infrastructure supporting these capabilities. The Director serves as a senior incident leader and trusted partner to cross-functional leaders. The ideal candidate combines deep technical credibility, decisive incident leadership, strong business judgment, and the ability to drive outcomes across a complex global organization.

Key Responsibilities

Security Monitoring and Incident Response

• Lead global security monitoring, threat detection, threat hunting, and incident response across corporate IT, cloud, identity, endpoint, application, network, and relevant OT environments.
• Direct incident triage, investigation, containment, eradication, recovery, evidence preservation, communications, and lessons-learned activities for significant cybersecurity events.
• Oversee SIEM, endpoint detection and response, network detection, threat intelligence, and security automation capabilities, including detection engineering, alert tuning, escalation criteria, and response playbooks.
• Serve as incident commander or senior cybersecurity responder and coordinates response activities with cross-functional leaders across Fluence, external counsel, insurers, and forensic partners.
• Maintain and continuously improve the global Incident Response Plan, operating procedures, exercises, and readiness metrics.

OT Security Operations and Customer Protection

• Lead cybersecurity operations supporting Battery Energy Storage System and other customer-facing operational technology environments managed by Fluence.
• Define OT monitoring, logging, remote-access, detection, escalation, evidence-preservation, and incident-response requirements in partnership with relevant teams.
• Coordinate the intake, assessment, investigation, and resolution of customer-reported cybersecurity events.
• Drive remediation of material OT cybersecurity vulnerabilities and operational risks, escalating unresolved issues, resource constraints, and customer-impacting trends to the CISO and appropriate governance bodies.
• Support the operational implementation of relevant cybersecurity standards and frameworks, including NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO/IEC 27001, and IEC 62443.

Security Awareness and Human Risk

• Lead Fluence’s global security awareness and human-risk management program, including phishing simulations, targeted learning, employee communications, newsletters, and role-based training.
• Use threat intelligence, incident trends, and simulation results to prioritize awareness topics.
• Partner with Human Resources, Privacy, Legal, Communications, and business leaders to ensure awareness activities are effective, appropriately governed, and aligned with applicable employee and data-protection requirements.
• Develop metrics that measure employee reporting behavior, training completion, repeat risk patterns, and improvement