Product Security Architect

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Job Title: Product Security Architect
Location-Type: Remote
Start Date Is: ASAP
Duration: 4–6 months (contract)
Compensation Range: $36.04/hr – $38.04/hr

Hands-on security architect with broad product and cloud security expertise who can go deep into threat modeling, architecture reviews, and risk management for connected devices and cloud services — consultative but accountable, not just advisory.

• Security Architecture Assessments: Conduct security assessments, identify vulnerabilities, document them in the risk register, and prioritize mitigation efforts. Professional and technically accurate architecture documentation skills contribute to the success for the role.

• Risk Assessment & Management: Based upon the risks identified during assessments, maintain risk register by documenting the progress working together with developers for Critical/High risks.

• Continuous Improvement to AYI Product Security baseline: Review the existing security baseline applicable to product development, firmware, software etc. and make updates according to recent threat landscape.

Must Haves

• Broad security foundation across domains, with the ability to go deep where needed:

• Application & API security

• Cloud security (Azure primary; AWS/GCP familiarity acceptable)

• Identity, authentication, authorization

• Network and communication security (including device to cloud)

• Understands how core security principles apply differently to:

  • Smart/connected devices (IoT/edge)

  • Backend cloud services

  • Mobile and web applications

• Comfortable reviewing system architectures, data flows, and trust boundaries, not just individual components.

• Risk based decision making: Ability to

  • Identify and document risks clearly

  • Maintain and reason over a risk register

  • Prioritize mitigations based on impact, likelihood, and business context

• Must be comfortable making pragmatic security trade offs and explaining them to engineering and leadership.