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Principal Architect, Security Operations

Danaher

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Base salary $200K  to $250K

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range USA - Carlsbad - Multiple OpCo

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About this job

Bring more to life. 

At Danaher, our work saves lives. And each of us plays a part. Fueled by our culture of continuous improvement, we turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.  

Our 60,000+ associates work across the globe at more than 15 unique businesses within life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology.   

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference? At Danaher, you can build an incredible career at a leading science and technology company, where we’re committed to hiring and developing from within. You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter.  

Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible. 

At Danaher, the Principal Architect, Security Operations owns the enterprise architecture and reference designs for the Security Operations technology stack. This role defines how the technology enabling security data collection and retention, detection engineering, investigation workflows, automation, and response technologies are designed and integrated across the enterprise, including security data pipelines, data lakes, SIEM, SOAR, solution-integrated AI, and custom-built MCP architectures. The Principal Architect works independently as a functional expert across the Security Operations Center, other Danaher Information Security functions, enterprise and OpCo-level technology teams, and strategic vendors to solve complex problems with broad enterprise impact and to enable scalable, automated, and measurable security operations. 

This position reports to Danaher’s Security Operations leadership and is part of the enterprise-wide Danaher Information Security (DIS) team. The position is remote. 

In this role, you will have the opportunity to: 

  • Own end-to-end technology architecture and reference designs for the Security Operations technology stack, including security data pipelines, data lakes, SIEM, SOAR, solution-integrated AI, and custom MCP architectures. 

  • Establish and maintain integration patterns and architecture designs for cyber technologies, such as CrowdStrike, and non-cyber technologies that enable data enrichment, investigations, and automated response. 

  • Define enterprise detection, logging, and telemetry standards that improve visibility, analytics, investigation quality, and response consistency across Danaher. 

  • Evaluate, select, and guide implementation of security technologies and services that enhance detection, response, automation, and measurable operational outcomes. 

  • Lead architecture alignment across Security Operations, Cyber Defense, infrastructure, cloud, identity, data, and vendor teams to ensure scalable, supportable, and secure designs. 

The essential requirements of the job include: 

  • 12+ years of experience in cybersecurity, security architecture, security engineering, security operations, detection engineering, incident response, or related technology roles. 

  • Experience designing or governing enterprise security operations technology architectures, including SIEM, SOAR, endpoint detection and response, cloud security telemetry, security data pipelines, or security data lakes. 

  • Experience establishing integration patterns across cyber and enterprise technology platforms using APIs, event streaming, data enrichment, orchestration, or automated response workflows. 

  • Experience defining detection, logging, telemetry, or security data standards for enterprise-scale environments. 

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements: if applicable for role 

  • Ability to travel around 25%, overnight, within territory or other Danaher locations. 

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in: 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field. 

  • Experience with CrowdStrike, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, Google SecOps, ServiceNow SecOps, Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR, or comparable enterprise security operations platforms; experience applying AI to security operations use cases, including alert enrichment, investigation support, detection engineering, response automation, or custom MCP architectures. 

  • Security architecture or cybersecurity certification such as CISSP, CCSP, GIAC, SABSA, TOGAF, or equivalent. 

Danaher offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job.  

Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info. 

At Danaher, we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, remote working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a remote work arrangement in which you can work remotely from your home. Additional information about this remote work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for Danaher can provide. 

The annual salary range $200,000 - $250,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future. 

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees. 

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law. 

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.


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Pay in context

This role's base floor ($200,000) is above 82% of the 1,833 IT & Security roles nationwide listed on this site; 35 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $151,000; the middle half runs from $125,100 to $181,000.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live Danaher roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Danaher roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Principal Architect, Security Operations (this listing)$200K - $250K
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Director, Intelligent Instruments & Automation$200K - $230K
Director, Global Security - REMOTE USA$200K - $215K
Product Management Director, Software$195K - $215K
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Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Danaher roles · How to read the bar

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2026-09-24
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