9344 - Senior Engineer - Cloud Security

CLOUD SECURITY - SENIOR ENGINEER

Location: Canada, Home Office

Restricted Citizenship. Security and Citizenship Clearance Required

About Wind River

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability. Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy.

The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world.  Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones, including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.        

The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software-defined world.        

About the Role

As a Security Engineer at Wind River, you will play a pivotal role in our mission. You’ll work closely with Product Engineering, Software Development, QA, and our customer-facing teams to ensure requisite levels of infrastructure, applications, and software security. Collaboration and teamwork are key, as you'll actively participate in global projects, working with colleagues from around the world. Your responsibilities will span from providing secure by-design hybrid infrastructure and security controls implementation for cloud-native solutions. To succeed in this role, you should have 5 years of IT security experience, be proficient in public cloud management leveraging IAC, and possess a strong understanding of DevSecOps technologies, pioneering new security tools, processes and capabilities for cloud-native solutions. A proactive mindset, solid technical skills, and the ability to work autonomously are essential.   

IT’S WHAT YOU KNOW   

• Good understanding and hands-on experience in Azure native services and Azure DevOps
• Secure OnPrem and Public Cloud environments leveraging IAC and policy as code
• Good understanding of security tools Coverity, BurpSuite, Trivy, PRISMA, Tenable,  Splunk etc.
• Working experience in container and cluster hardening
• Excellent programming skills using Python
• Proficiency in pipeline automation leveraging Gitlab, Jenkins, Jira etc.
• Foundational knowledge of vulnerability management, remediation, and troubleshooting skills
• Security penetration testing and threat modeling would be a plus 
• Industry standards-based documentation, certification, and accreditation such as NIST SP 800-53, FEDRAMP and bringing assets into compliance with these standards 
• Experience with Agile and Scrum 
• Self-managed, fast learner, and strong problem-solving skills. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and a good listener. 
• Exceptional team player who works well in collaborative situations. 
• Ability to brainstorm and represent competing ideas simultaneously. 
• Growth mindset person passionate about learning and applying new technologies. 
• 5+ years of relevant technical experience in cybersecurity with 2+ years of experience in software engineering. 
• BE / MTech degree (Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, or equivalent technical degree).

Benefits 

• Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid Work.
• Company-sponsored health, dental, and life insurance.
• Income protection through short and long-term disability coverage.
• Matching RRSP.
• Vacation and various time off policies to encourage work-life balance.
• Well-being programs: Employee assistance program, mental well-being through Unmind.
• Learning benefits: LinkedIn Learning subscription and seminars.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY 

Wind River is committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.  Wind River will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on these characteristics. 

To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com. 

APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICE:                

Your privacy is of the utmost importance to us. At Wind River, we strictly adhere to all applicable data privacy laws. Please review Wind River's Applicant Privacy Notice, which can be found here.                    

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Security Clearance Requirements   

Successful candidates must engage in a security clearance process in regards to their citizenship in order to perform fundamental job duties, as per applicable law. In particular, candidates with certain citizenship may not be able to perform such fundamental job duties. Currently, this includes citizens of the following countries: Belarus; Burma; China; Cuba; Iran; North Korea; Syria; Venezuela; Afghanistan; Cambodia; Central African Republic; Cyprus; Democratic Republic of Congo; Ethiopia; Eritrea; Haiti; Iraq; Lebanon; Libya; Russia; Somalia; South Sudan; Sudan; Zimbabwe. The security clearance process may take a significant amount of time to complete, and any offer of employment will be contingent on the candidate's legal ability to perform the fundamental job duties. Wind River is committed to meeting its obligations to candidates under applicable human rights law and privacy law in this regard.