Cyber Security Engineer
About the job
- Hands-on cybersecurity experience balancing operational security with strategic risk management in a complex manufacturing environment.
- Ability to assess and secure artificial intelligence tooling and models.
- Ability to conduct security assessments of infrastructure and network designs, cloud and on-premises systems, Microsoft 365, Azure, and external-facing assets.
- Ability to manage vulnerability scanning and reporting, security tools, remediation tracking, audits, and penetration testing.
- Ability to support compliance initiatives, security architecture, incident response, and security policy development.
- Protect the company's global enterprise IT environment and ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of critical business systems.
- Design, implement, and maintain security controls across cloud platforms, networks, endpoints, identity and access management, and collaboration technologies.
- Identify vulnerabilities, monitor security threats, respond to incidents, and continuously improve the organisation's security posture.
- Support compliance with industry standards and regulations, lead security assessments and remediation activities, and contribute to security architecture and technology roadmaps.
- Promote security best practices and collaborate with internal stakeholders and external partners to embed cybersecurity into enterprise systems, projects, and business processes.
- Oversee vulnerability management, ensuring scans are configured, performed, and reported in required formats to relevant stakeholders.
- Assess new artificial intelligence tooling and models requested by the business and determine how they should be secured.
- Conduct security assessments of new infrastructure and network designs, as well as cloud and on-premises systems.
- Perform security posture checks on Microsoft 365, Azure, and external-facing assets such as websites.
- Represent security at product review boards for durability and reliability products.
- Support collection and publication of monthly Cyber Security Board data, including patching service-level agreement data.
- Act as the security point of contact for security assessments and architectural reviews of items going into Legato, when requested.
- Participate in the artificial intelligence governance forum overseeing creation of artificial intelligence policies, review procedures, and governance across HBK.
- Create, review, and approve cybersecurity policies.
- Lead incident response, coordinating detection, containment, eradication, and post-incident reviews for security events and data breaches.
- Collaborate with legal, human resources, and operations on insider threat investigations, forensic evidence preservation, and regulatory breach notifications.
- Arrange and manage security audits and penetration testing.
- Prepare and present security reports to management.
- Manage and maintain security tools and technologies, including Tenable and Microsoft Defender.
- Monitor and track remediation of identified vulnerabilities.
- Monitor and report on user behavioural analysis, including awareness training and social engineering campaigns.
- Improve identity and access management.
- Support compliance initiatives and remediation efforts.
- Support the HBK Cyber Security Transformation programme.
About the company
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Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Darmstadt, Germany
Founded
1942
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Fusion-LN 12-channel modules ship now, expanding HBK's sound-and-vibration installed base.
- Sentech strengthens HBK across aerospace, energy, defence, and industrial accounts.
- HBK's Spectris backing supports acquisition funding and broader cross-selling into adjacent test markets.
What critics are saying
- US regulators still must clear Sentech; failure kills the August 2026 expansion plan.
- Sentech's 86 employees across Pennsylvania and North Carolina complicate integration before year-end 2026.
- HBK still fights established rivals in aerospace and industrial sensing, compressing pricing and margins.
What makes Hottinger Brüel & Kjaer unique
- Fusion-LN back-compatibility lets LAN-XI customers upgrade without forklift replacement.
- Sentech adds LVDT, RVDT, and speed sensing to HBK's embedded portfolio.
- HBK spans sensing, testing, modelling, and simulation for product-development workflows.
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HBK has signed an agreement to acquire Sentech, a leading provider of precision position and speed sensing technologies, strengthening our capabilities in embedded sensing across aerospace, energy, defence, and industrial markets.
The next generation in sound and vibration data acquisition. 18/03/2026 HBK - Hottinger, Bruel & Kjaer Designed to meet the evolving needs of engineers and researchers, Hottinger Brüel & Kjær's (HBK) latest innovation in sound and vibration measurement - Fusion-LN - has expanded its product line with a 12-channel module, which is available now for delivery. Fusion-LN introduces a streamlined approach to data acquisition, supporting applications across aerospace and defence, telecom, audio, industrial, and automotive sectors. Its modular design and intuitive interface enable users to adapt quickly to changing test requirements without compromising accuracy or reliability. A key function is that owners of HBK's LAN-XI data acquisition tool can preserve current capabilities and past investments, as Fusion-LN has backwards compatibility with LAN-XI. Operators are now also able to place Fusion-LN modules - combined with LAN-XI modules - in the same frame, which provides a seamless upgrade and allows them to expand their system, instead of replacing it. As industries face increasing demands for precision and efficiency, Fusion-LN provides engineers with a platform to simplify complex measurement tasks, while ensuring scalability for their future challenges.