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Principal Security Strategist

Signify

Eindhoven
Full-time
10+ years experience
Hybrid

Key Skills

Cybersecurity strategy
Security architecture
Security-by-design
IT/OT security
Cloud security
DevSecOps
IAM
PAM
EDR
SOAR
DLP
Risk management
Threat intelligence
Security operations
Return on security investment
Agile methodologies

Job Description

About Signify


Through bold discovery and cutting-edge innovation, we lead an industry that is vital for the future of our planet: lighting. Through our leadership in connected lighting and the Internet of Things, we're breaking new ground in data analytics, AI, and smart solutions for homes, offices, cities, and beyond.


At Signify, you can shape tomorrow by building on our incredible 125+ year legacy while working toward even bolder sustainability goals. Our culture of continuous learning, creativity, and commitment to diversity and inclusion empowers you to grow your skills and career.


Join us, and together, we’ll transform our industry, making a lasting difference for brighter lives and a better world. 


More about the role


You’ll work closely with the CISO to transform strategic vision into a forward-looking technology and services roadmap, playing a key role in shaping our cybersecurity future.


What You'll Do

  • Be a trusted voice for the CISO: You’ll represent the CISO Office in key technical steering committees, architecture boards, and cross-functional business forums, helping shape critical security decisions.
  • Shape enterprise security architecture: You’ll define and champion Security-by-Design principles across IT, OT, Cloud, DevSecOps, and product lifecycles, embedding security into how we operate and innovate.
  • Drive the evolution of our security capabilities: You’ll explore emerging threats and technologies, from EDR, SOAR, PAM, and DLP to AI-driven automation, identifying opportunities to continuously strengthen our enterprise security maturity.
  • Connect cybersecurity with the business: You’ll act as a key link between the CISO Office, IT, and business teams, turning complex technical risks into clear insights that enable confident executive decision-making.
  • Help shape where we invest: You’ll bring a strategic lens to security investments, using Return on Security Investment (ROSI) and cost-benefit analysis to help prioritize technologies and optimize the security portfolio.
  • Strengthen our security readiness: You’ll work closely with Security Operations to turn threat intelligence into proactive controls while helping evolve SOC capabilities and meaningful KPIs

 

What you Bring

  • Extensive Security Experience: You bring 5+ years of experience in Security Engineering, Enterprise Infrastructure, or Security Architecture, complemented by 5+ years in security strategy and capability management.
  • Strong Technical Expertise: You have deep, hands-on knowledge of hybrid IT/OT environments, cloud platforms, modern IAM/PAM, network security, and SOC technologies and tooling.
  • Relevant Educational Background: You hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Engineering, IT, Business Administration, or a related field, or bring equivalent relevant professional experience.
  • Recognized Security Credentials: You hold a CISSP, CISM, or CRISC certification. Experience with or certifications in Lean/Agile methodologies are considered an advantage.

Everything we’ll do for you


You can grow a lasting career here. We’ll encourage you, support you, and challenge you. We’ll help you learn and progress in a way that’s right for you, with coaching and mentoring along the way. We’ll listen to you too, because we see and value every one of our 27,000+ people. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace fosters creativity, innovation, and a full spectrum of bright ideas. With a global workforce present in 70+ countries, we are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where every voice is heard and valued, helping us all achieve more together. 


Come join us, and together we can light up the future.

 

Core Responsibilities

You will work with the CISO to define the cybersecurity roadmap and represent the office in technical steering committees. You will also champion security-by-design principles across IT, OT, and cloud environments while driving the evolution of security capabilities.

Requirements

Candidates must have over 10 years of combined experience in security engineering, infrastructure, and strategy. A bachelor's or master's degree in a relevant field and professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or CRISC are required.

Benefits

  • Continuous learning
  • Mentoring
  • Coaching
  • Diversity and inclusion initiatives

About Signify

Industry: Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

Company size: 5,001-10,000 employees

At Cooper Lighting Solutions, a Signify business, we build forward-thinking lighting and control solutions that make people’s lives safer while making buildings, homes and cities smarter and more sustainable. We deliver an industry-leading portfolio of indoor and outdoor LED lighting, advanced lighting controls and connected lighting systems across commercial, industrial, residential, sports, healthcare, education, retail and infrastructure applications. From performance-driven luminaires to intelligent networked control platforms, our solutions help customers enhance energy efficiency, improve occupant comfort and meet evolving building codes and sustainability goals. Our portfolio includes trusted brands such as HALO, Metalux, Lumark, McGraw-Edison, Streetworks, NeoRay and Corelite. Together, we serve architects, engineers, lighting designers, contractors, distributors and facility managers across North America. We continue to expand our innovation and industrial capabilities through strategic growth, including the recent acquisition of Nemalux, a market leader in hazardous location lighting. This strengthens our ability to serve customers operating in demanding environments where safety and performance are critical. We question. We seek. We solve. Because building a better world means asking tough questions and pushing harder for answers. Together with our customers, we design lighting environments that support productivity, safety, connection and performance, bringing the best of life to light in every environment we help create. Cooper Lighting Solutions is a business unit of Signify, the world leader in lighting. Together, we share a purpose to unlock the extraordinary potential of light for brighter lives and a better world.

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