Principal, Product Security

Itron is innovating new ways for utilities and cities to manage energy and water. We create a more resourceful world to protect essential resources for today and tomorrow. Join us. Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) is a global technology and services company dedicated to the resourceful use of energy and water. With more than 300 million deployed endpoints worldwide, Itron is a leader in IoT innovation, helping utilities and cities create a more sustainable, connected, and resourceful future. As a member of the Information Security team, you will serve as the senior technical leader responsible for advancing Itron's product security program across software development, cloud, and engineering environments. This role focuses on securing source code, software supply chains, CI/CD pipelines, and product architectures while enabling agile, customer-centric development practices. You will collaborate closely with Product Development, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, and Cybersecurity teams to design and implement scalable security solutions that protect Itron products and services throughout the development lifecycle.

Lead the architecture and engineering of security controls that protect source code repositories, development environments, build systems, software supply chains, and release processes. Design and implement secure CI/CD pipeline patterns, artifact management controls, signing services, and deployment workflows that ensure software integrity from code commit through product release. Partner with security-by-design and application security testing teams to operationalize security requirements, vulnerability management, threat modeling outcomes, and release controls. Establish and promote secure application and API security standards, including authentication, authorization, secure coding practices, data protection, logging, and abuse prevention. Collaborate with engineering teams to reduce application, API, and cloud attack surfaces through secure architecture, identity management, and least-privilege access models. Drive modernization of development and engineering environments to mitigate risks associated with credential compromise, malicious code, dependency attacks, and unauthorized releases. Integrate security capabilities across source control, CI/CD platforms, cloud services, artifact repositories, governance tools, and security monitoring solutions. Automate security controls and operational processes using APIs, infrastructure-as-code, and scripting technologies such as Python, PowerShell, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and GitLab. Establish security logging, monitoring, and detection requirements for software development and release environments in partnership with security operations teams. Develop secure architecture guardrails, reference standards, operational procedures, and technical documentation that support scalable and innovative product delivery. Ensure auditable evidence exists for software supply chain controls, artifact integrity, release approvals, SBOM generation, and regulatory or customer assurance requirements. Mentor engineers and influence cross-functional teams to adopt secure, customer-focused, collaborative, and accountable engineering practices across global product environments. Required Skills & Experience Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, product security, application security, software engineering, DevSecOps, cloud security, or a related technical discipline. 5+ years of hands-on experience securing software development environments, source code platforms, CI/CD pipelines, or software supply chains. Expert-level experience designing and operating security controls across cloud, SaaS, enterprise, and product engineering environments. Strong knowledge of software