Senior Architect, Product Security

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Position Summary

• This role requires Product Security and software development experience, knowledge, and skills. You'll be responsible for leading pre-market and post-market security initiatives & solutions including Illumina medical instruments and connected software before they are released to customers.
• The Product Security Architect/Sr Architect is a critical role at Illumina in ensuring the manufacturing of our physical medical devices and software solutions development are secure.
• As a valued team member, you will define, identify, evaluate, and maintain controls, providing visibility into the health, and security of our products.
• You will collaborate closely with our engineering, development, and technology groups to define and maintain medical device security and lead the change, ensuring secure posture for Illumina products in Premarket and Postmarket phases of the product.
• The Product Security Architect/Sr Architect is responsible for introducing security controls, processes and testing throughout entire product SDLC, from hardware selection to decommissioning the device.  You are highly motivated to integrate security capabilities into continuous release planning and execution for all Illumina products. 

 

Responsibilities

• Drive Secure Design working in close partnership with our Development Teams.
• Introduce and deliver security requirements at the system and software levels, partnering with the development team to ensure correct implementation.
• Partner with the Development Teams and deliver threat models on software development projects, identifying and prioritizing cybersecurity requirements.
• Guide, mentor and advise the Verification Team, ensuring that verification of cybersecurity requirements is performed correctly and with full coverage.
• Partner with the Development and Quality teams; drive and deliver Cybersecurity Risk Assessments on projects, ensuring all risks are identified, prioritized and addressed as expected.
• Drive and execute/facilitate all varieties of cybersecurity testing; from penetration testing to vulnerability scans, ensuring along the way that all findings are triaged/root caused/addressed appropriately.
• Work tirelessly on improving the integration of Product Security into SDLC, building trust, expertise, and process efficiencies.
• Drive security initiatives by example, be knowledgeable and passionate, be strong communicator and never miss an opportunity to educate and train partner teams on the topics of Product Security.

 

Requirements

• Deep experience in application and product security coupled with a strong depth of understanding and knowledge of relevant technology stacks.
• Expertise in building secure designs for software products or perform penetration testing for software products.
• Ability to understand code and system configurations and being able to recommend modifications to those, to ensure better security posture.
• Very in-depth understanding of software development and the ability to effectively build and communicate security designs, taking in consideration software design context.
• Understanding of three or more security domains (such as for example, platform security, network security, application security, etc.)
• Understanding of OWASP Top 10 Web Application Vulnerabilities.
• Coding experience with two or more programming languages.
• Experience with software security tools such as nMap, Wireshark, Kali Linux, OpenVAS
• Effective communicator delivering key messages to team stakeholders, and business partners using informative clear verbal and written communications.
• Experience with a medical device manufacturer or other relevant regulated industries is preferred.

 

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or relevant work experience.
• Professional qualifications are preferred such as: CISSP, CISM, CSSLP, or OSCP.

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