Cybersecurity Engineer
Cybersecurity Engineer
Shape how secure digital products are built at Hilti by integrating cybersecurity throughout our robust software development lifecycle. From the Hilti Website and mobile app to other products across Strategic Marketing, this role will turn security into a practical engineering advantage,embedding effective controls, validating vulnerabilities, and scaling automation so teams can innovate and deliver with speed and confidence.
What You'll do
• Collaborate with product, development, and DevOps teams to ensure software and AI-enabled capabilities are built and deployed securely without compromising agility and speed.
• Perform security assessments of web applications, APIs, and AI-enabled capabilities, including code review, dynamic testing, LLM security testing, and agent or tool-use testing.
• Conduct threat modelling and security architecture reviews for cloud-native, web, API, and AI solutions.
• Build and operate security automation and AI-enabled capabilities, including automated threat modelling, remediation support, and MCP-based capabilities for engineering teams.
• Scale security as a developer experience through self-service tooling, APIs, clear standards, implementation guidance, security champions, and CI/CD-native controls.
• Manage and validate remediation of vulnerabilities, and support penetration testing and broader security testing programmes.
• Configure and optimise preventive controls such as web application firewalls, bot protection, rate limiting, identity controls, secrets management, and data protection.
• Develop security monitoring, alerting, metrics, and incident response capabilities to address security issues and cross-team dependencies.
• Assess and integrate open-source and vendor security tools to automate and scale security processes.
• Engineer and secure cloud-native solutions across AWS, Azure, or GCP using containers, serverless patterns, event-driven messaging, and distributed data stores.
What You’ll Bring
• 3-5 years of relevant experience in application security, product security, security engineering, DevSecOps, or security operations, including hands-on experience onboarding or optimizing security tools.
• Strong understanding of vulnerability management, network security, cloud security, secure engineering practices, and compensating controls.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including identity, networking, secrets management, data protection, and logging.
• Software engineering and automation skills, with the ability to read and write Python, Go, PowerShell, or a similar language and work credibly with engineering teams.
• Experience securing CI/CD pipelines and scaling security through developer-friendly tools, APIs, automation, and self-service platforms.
• Working knowledge of GenAI and LLM security, including prompt injection, model and data integrity, agent and tool-use security, and AI supply-chain considerations.
• Ability to build reliable and efficient security capabilities, considering latency, throughput, scalability, caching, context efficiency, and cost controls.
• Strong communication and documentation skills, with the ability to lead initiatives independently and explain technical risk to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A constructive, flexible approach to ambiguity, developer concerns, and problem solving.
Preferred qualifications
• Practical experience with application security testing, penetration testing, threat modelling, WAF or bot-management controls, or security monitoring and incident response.
• Relevant cybersecurity or cloud certifications are beneficial but not required.
What’s In It for You
We really value our people, and we've worked hard to develop a reward package that reflects this, creating your future to be just how you would want it. Some of our benefits include:
A caring and performance-oriented culture.
A recognized Great Place to Work 2026, which celebrates our commitment to a culture that values care, performance, and innovation for our greatest strength, our people.
Competitive rewards and comprehensive career development opportunities that ensure your success is our priority.
Why Hilti
Hilti is a global leader in construction innovation, with more than 34,000 team members across 120 countries. Guided by our purpose, Making Construction Better, we’re driven to keep learning, growing, and finding new ways to make a lasting impact. Here, you’ll be empowered to use your strengths, work with a global and inclusive team, and take on meaningful challenges. At Hilti, you’ll have the chance to make your ideas, achievements, and growth real through purpose, passion, and teamwork.
Commitment to Inclusion
At Hilti, inclusion is a key focus in how we work, lead, and grow together. We are committed to embracing diversity of thought and creating an environment that is inclusive of everyone, everywhere. We continuously strive to ensure every voice is valued and every team member feels empowered to contribute. By building on this foundation, we strengthen our teams, our innovation, and our impact, making construction better together.
Join us in making construction better.
Apply now.
Learn more about us: https://careers.hilti.group/en
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