Principal Technologist - Product Security
Core
Technical authority driving secure design, architecture, and lifecycle hardening of Wind River's mission-critical cloud infrastructure solutions for telco, aerospace, defense, and industrial deployments.
Role type
Principal Technologist (Product Security)
Builds
Secure private cloud platform, virtualization, orchestration, and distributed edge computing systems
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, embedded systems, cybersecurity
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Security architecture design, threat modeling, vulnerability management, Kubernetes security hardening, PKI/certificate management, Linux kernel security, container hardening, cryptography, hardware root of trust, SDN/NFV security, CI/CD security
Preferred skills
Private cloud infrastructure experience, telco/aerospace/defense domain knowledge, Yocto/embedded Linux/RTOS, open-source security initiatives
Technologies
Kubernetes, KVM, QEMU, EJBCA, cert-manager, OIDC, LDAP, Active Directory, TPM, UEFI Secure Boot, NIST, CIS, FIPS, Yocto
Responsibilities
Define and evolve security architecture for control plane, hypervisors, and networking stacks; Lead threat modeling and risk assessments; Drive secure-by-default configurations across compute, storage, and networking; Oversee vulnerability management and secure boot; Mentor senior engineers and influence executives on security tradeoffs; Represent organization in security reviews and industry standards bodies
Seniority
Principal, strategy & mentorship
