Principal Technologist - Product Security

Role Summary   As a   Principal Technologist   specializing in   Product Security   for the   Wind River Private Cloud Platform , you will serve as the technical authority driving the secure design, architecture, and lifecycle hardening of Wind River’s mission‑critical cloud infrastructure solutions. You will guide security strategy across virtualization, orchestration, and distributed edge computing systems—ensuring the platform meets stringent requirements for telco, aerospace, defense, and industrial deployments. This role bridges advanced cloud engineering, embedded systems knowledge, and modern cybersecurity practices.   Key Responsibilities   Security Architecture & Strategy   Define and evolve the   security architecture   for Wind River Private Cloud Platform, including control plane components, hypervisors, networking stacks, and orchestration frameworks.   Lead threat modeling, security risk assessments, and mitigation strategies across distributed cloud/edge environments.   Establish platform security requirements, secure design patterns, and architectural   principles .   Detailed architecture and design definition of individual product security features   Providing direction and specific requirement input to development teams   Working with business team and customers to define/clarify requirements   Evaluating and proposing technology choices   Product & Platform Security   Drive secure-by-default configurations across   compute , storage, networking, and platform services.   Own the security roadmap for the platform, ensuring alignment with industry standards (NIST, CIS, FIPS, etc.).   Oversee vulnerability management, secure boot, runtime integrity measures, API security, and cryptographic services.   Partner with product, engineering, and QA teams to embed security throughout SDLC (shift‑left security).   Technical Leadership   Serve as the top technical expert and advisor for product security across cloud, containerization, virtualization, and real‑time/edge systems.   Mentor senior engineers and influence engineering directors and executives on cybersecurity tradeoffs and priorities.   Represent the organization in security reviews, customer briefings, escalations, and cross-functional technical committees.   Security Operations & Compliance   Guide   secure   deployment patterns and operational security practices for private cloud customers.   Support incident investigation, root‑cause analysis, and remediation for platform-level vulnerabilities.   Define and enforce policies for SBOM, supply chain integrity, CI/CD security, and secure artifact distribution.   Collaboration & Influence   Collaborate with teams across   Wind   River Studio ecosystem (edge platform, analytics,   DevSecOps   tooling).   Represent Wind River in   standards   bodies and industry working groups (ETSI, CNCF, Linux Foundation, etc.).   Partner with customer engineering teams on secure deployment architectures for telecom and mission‑critical environments.   Required Qualifications   1 5 + years in cloud/platform engineering, embedded systems, or cybersecurity with deep architectural ownership.   Expertise in   product security , including threat modeling, secure architecture, and vulnerability management.   Strong knowledge of:   Kubernetes Security Hardening - RBAC, Secrets, Encryption, Security Policies   Certificate Management, PKI, EJBCA, cert-manager   Authentication mechanisms: OIDC, LDAP, Active Directory   Linux internals, kernel security, container   hardening   and breakout protection   Practical c ryptography   algorithms and application   H ardware root of trust (TPM,   UEFI   S ecure   B oot ,   T rusted   B oot )   CIS Benchmarks for Linux and Kubernetes   Virtualization technologies (KVM, QEMU, etc.)   Cloud networking, SDN/NFV, microservices security   Hands-on experience with CI/CD security, SAST, DAST, container scanning , SBOM   generation.   Proven ability to lead complex cross‑organizational security initiatives.   Preferred Qualifications   Experience with   private cloud infrastructure , Titanium Cloud, or telecom / industrial   - grade cloud infrastructure.   Background in telco (5G), aerospace/defense, industrial IoT, or other safety/security‑critical domains.   Familiarity with   Yocto , embedded Linux, RTOS environments.   Participation in open-source security initiatives or upstream kernel/cloud projects.   Advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity, or similar field.   Success Indicators   Demonstrated improvements in platform security posture, measurable vulnerability reduction, and secure SDLC maturity.   Adoption of security architecture patterns across engineering teams.   Strong technical influence with executives, partners, and global customers.   Delivery of innovative, scalable platform security capabilities for distributed cloud and edge environments.   Privacy Notice - Active Candidates:  https://www.aptiv.com/privacy-notice-active-candidates Aptiv is an equal employment opportunity employer. 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