Swisscom operates Switzerland's largest telecommunications infrastructure: the dominant mobile network, the country's most extensive fibre-optic grid, and critical internet/digital TV services for millions of Swiss and Italian customers. As a 23,000-person organization 51% owned by the Swiss Confederation, the company manages essential connectivity for both consumer and enterprise segments - a scale that puts security, resilience, and threat detection at operational core rather than peripheral concern.
The technical surface is broad. Swisscom runs cloud infrastructure, AI systems, mobile network stacks, and digital service platforms. The threat model is correspondingly expansive: protecting telecom backbone against state and criminal infrastructure attacks, defending customer data across millions of endpoints, detecting compromises in network management systems, and maintaining service continuity under coordinated pressure. These aren't hypothetical scenarios for a critical infrastructure operator serving a wealthy, digitized economy.
Security roles here mean defending systems that other organizations depend on. You're building detection and response capabilities for a telecom operator, not a isolated corporate network. The team operates across Switzerland and Italy, managing regulatory obligations across two jurisdictions and maintaining technical standards for an organization that publishes sustainability and innovation commitments publicly. Swisscom Ventures' portfolio of 85+ startup investments also creates surface area - you're managing risk across a growing ecosystem of connected technology partners.
