Lead Cybersecurity Test Engineer

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Distech Controls’ success and reputation are fueled by our world-class team of employees. We look for qualified individuals who are striving to succeed and that wish to actively contribute to our continued growth. Distech Controls values its team members and offers them a modern, motivating work environment, and competitive salaries and benefits.

Distech Controls is a Canadian-based company located in Brossard, on the South Shore of Montreal (QC), with a European headquarter in Brignais (Lyon), France. We are proud to be part of the Acuity Inc. family since 2015. Our mission is to connect people with intelligent building solutions for better health, better space, and better efficiencies through our forward-thinking technologies and services.

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.

We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.

Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at  .

The Cybersecurity Test Engineer is responsible for supporting product security testing, vulnerability management, compliance coordination, and security validation across software, firmware, cloud, and system components. This role performs or coordinates penetration testing activities, reviews findings from tools such as Aqua, Snyk, and related security scanners, supports vulnerability triage, and serves as a technical liaison between R&D, Legal, Compliance, Product, and Quality.

This position helps ensure that security findings are understood, prioritized, tracked, remediated, verified, and reported according to organizational policies, quality expectations, and applicable regulatory or contractual requirements. The role contributes directly to Software Quality / System Quality Engineering by strengthening defect prevention, release readiness, customer trust, and secure product delivery.

Security Testing

• Perform targeted product security testing and vulnerability validation.
• Support penetration testing activities for software, firmware, APIs, cloud services, and connected systems.
• Review security test results from internal and external assessments.
• Validate security fixes and support regression testing.
• Identify gaps in security test coverage.

Vulnerability Management

• Review findings from tools such as Aqua, Snyk, and other security scanning platforms.
• Triage vulnerabilities by severity, exploitability, product impact, and customer risk.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure findings are properly documented and assigned.
• Track vulnerability remediation against defined SLAs.
• Verify remediation and closure evidence.

Compliance and Legal Liaison

• Serve as a technical liaison between R&D, Legal, Compliance, Product, and Quality for product security matters.
• Support compliance evidence collection and security documentation.
• Assist with customer security questionnaires, audit responses, and…