Product Security Architect (Remote US)

This is a remote US position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and will not require sponsorship now or in the future.

The team

Platform Integrity Engineering safeguards the security, integrity, and resilience of our products throughout the product lifecycle. The team serves as a technical security partner to Engineering and Product Management, helping ensure security is built into product architecture, development, release, and ongoing vulnerability management. Our scope includes product security architecture, threat modeling, Kubernetes and container security, vulnerability research, penetration testing, secure development practices, and customer and compliance support.

The role

As a Product Security Architect supporting VSP One Object/File, you will provide hands-on security expertise across Kubernetes infrastructure, object and file storage services, APIs, management interfaces, networking, authentication, and data protection. You will lead threat modeling and security architecture assessments, investigate CVEs for applicability and exploitability, perform targeted security testing, and validate remediation. You will partner directly with Engineering to identify root causes and attack paths and translate complex security risks into clear, actionable engineering recommendations, security controls, and design improvements. Strong communication skills are essential to effectively articulate risk, customer impact, and remediation priorities to Engineering, Product Management, customers, security stakeholders, and leadership. You will also support security advisories, VEX, SBOM/SCA analysis, customer security inquiries, and applicable security and regulatory requirements.

What you'll bring

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in product, application, cloud, container, infrastructure security, or penetration testing.
• Strong experience securing Kubernetes-based, containerized, storage, or complex distributed platforms.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes, Linux, network and API security, authentication and authorization, secrets management, TLS/mTLS, encryption, and key management.
• Experience assessing object and/or file storage, including S3-compatible interfaces, access controls, multitenancy, and data-protection boundaries.
• Proven ability to investigate CVEs and determine product applicability, reachability, exploitability, and actual customer impact.
• Ability to review source code, Kubernetes YAML, Helm charts, scripts, configurations, SBOMs, and third-party dependencies from a security perspective.
• Hands-on penetration testing and vulnerability validation experience using tools such as kubectl, Trivy, Grype, Burp Suite, OpenSSL, and Nmap.
• Ability to develop proof-of-concept tests, reproduce vulnerabilities, and independently verify remediation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate security risks into clear, actionable engineering recommendations.
• Certifications such as CKS, OSCP, GPEN, or CISSP are preferred, with demonstrated hands-on security expertise valued above certification alone.

As required by the equal pay and transparency acts, the expected base salary for this position is: $130K to $160K. The expected on-target earnings for this position is: $145k to $175k.

The expected pay is determined based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, depth of experience in the practice area. Employees are eligible to participate in Hitachi Vantara's bonus/variable/commission pay programs, where applicable, and are subject to the program's conditions and restrictions.

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