Lead Product Security Architect

Itron, Inc.; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k matching

Hybrid work schedule

Paid vacation

Employee stock purchase program

Job summary

Itron, Inc. seeks an experienced senior security leader to advance product security across software development, cloud, and engineering environments.

You will protect source code, software supply chains, CI/CD pipelines, and product architectures while enabling agile, customer-centric development practices. You will mentor engineers, influence cross-functional teams, and drive adoption of secure, innovative engineering practices across global product environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.
• 7+ years in cybersecurity, product security, or related discipline.
• 5+ years securing software development environments, CI/CD, or software supply chains.
• Expert-level in security controls across cloud and enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of software supply chain security and artifact integrity.
• Understanding of OWASP Top 10 and API security concepts.
• Experience communicating risk to engineering leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and engineering of security controls for code repositories and release processes.
• Design secure CI/CD patterns, artifact management, and deployment workflows.
• Collaborate with security teams to operationalize requirements and threat modeling.
• Establish secure application and API security standards including data protection and logging.
• Reduce attack surfaces through secure design and least-privilege access models.
• Automate security controls using IaC and scripting (Python/PowerShell).
• Develop guardrails and documentation for scalable product delivery.

Skills

Security architecture

CI/CD security

Cloud security

Secure coding practices

Threat modeling

Vulnerability management

Communication to leadership

Python/PowerShell scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Cybersecurity

Tools

GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps

Terraform

Jenkins/CI tools

SBOM tooling

Job description

Itron, Inc. seeks an experienced senior security leader to advance product security across software development, cloud, and engineering environments.

You will protect source code, software supply chains, CI/CD pipelines, and product architectures while enabling agile, customer-centric development practices. You will mentor engineers, influence cross-functional teams, and drive adoption of secure, innovative engineering practices across global product environments.