IoT Security Architect

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $146.2k - $243.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Grainger

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1927

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Logistics • Manufacturing

Grainger is a leading broad line distributor that operates primarily in North America, Japan, and the United Kingdom. With a mission to "Keep the World Working", Grainger serves over 4. 5 million customers by offering around 2 million maintenance, repair, and operating (MRO) products and services, as well as access to millions of additional products through its online platforms. The company is recognized for its commitment to excellent service and innovative technology that enhances customer relationships and operational efficiency.

📋 Description

• Own security architecture and posture across device fleets, edge platforms, and supporting cloud, web, and identity services • Lead platform rationalization into a consistent target state • Partner with senior business, product, engineering, operations, and security stakeholders to align priorities • Translate business context into security requirements, security risk into business impact, and decisions into actionable engineering direction • Serve as security design authority for connected systems in Grainger’s architecture governance process • Shape hardware, platform, and vendor decisions early in the architecture lifecycle • Lead security architecture for cloud platforms, web applications, and APIs managing the fleet • Partner with domain architects on cloud IAM, web application firewalls, API protection, and secrets management • Lead threat modeling across devices, edge platforms, connectivity, cloud services, web applications, APIs, and field workflows • Define measurable security baselines for commercial and embedded field devices, including hardening, secure boot, disk encryption, and endpoint detection and response • Establish secure delivery patterns for edge software and AI models, including signing, provenance, staged rollout, rollback, and software/model bills of materials • Secure edge AI models and inference while balancing security, privacy, latency, cost, and customer experience • Create device trust architectures covering unique identities, secure onboarding, PKI, certificate lifecycle, secrets protection, mutual authentication, and least-privilege device messaging • Design identity and access patterns for devices, services, technicians, administrators, vendors, and customers • Architect secure connectivity across cellular, satellite, Wi-Fi, and wired deployments, including carrier strategy, failover, and isolation from customer networks • Shape endpoint and fleet telemetry, vulnerability management, compromised-device containment, and recovery with engineering and security operations teams • Communicate security posture to leadership through metrics and KPIs • Mentor peers and junior architects through design reviews • Report to the Director of Cybersecurity Architecture

🎯 Requirements

• Deep security architecture expertise in large-scale IoT, embedded, or edge systems, plus broad enterprise architecture experience • 10+ years in information security or related engineering • 8+ years in security architecture across multiple domains • At least 4 years focused on IoT, embedded, or edge systems • Preferred: experience in connected retail, industrial IoT, robotics, or comparable edge devices • Preferred: certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, or relevant cloud, Linux, or industrial cybersecurity credentials • Proven ability to align senior stakeholders behind multi-year direction and rationalize overlapping or acquired technology portfolios through capability mapping and migration strategy • Strong experience with cloud-connected IoT and network architectures, including edge runtimes, MQTT, messaging authorization, segmentation from customer environments, and cellular, satellite, Wi-Fi, and wired connectivity • Solid cloud, application, and identity architecture experience, including cloud IAM, web application firewalls, API gateways, secrets management, federation, MFA, and privileged access management • Expert understanding of device trust and device-scale PKI, including hardware roots of trust (TPM, secure elements, HSMs), secure and measured boot, attestation, certificate rotation and revocation, and failure modes • Experience hardening commercial and embedded operating systems to IoT security standards, including endpoint detection and response, vulnerability management, and secure OTA updates with signing and rollback protection • Experience defining fleet security telemetry, containment, and recovery patterns, and turning incident findings into architecture improvements • Working knowledge of edge computer vision security, including model protection, adversarial inputs, MLOps across edge and cloud, and privacy obligations for camera and sensor data • Strong communication skills, including translating technical concepts for executives and defending architectural positions with evidence

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one • 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist • 18 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees • 6 company holidays per year • 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no employee contribution required • Employee discounts • Tuition reimbursement • Student loan refinancing • Free access to financial counseling, education, and tools • Maternity support programs • Nursing benefits • Up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents • Up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents • Incentive target of up to 20% based on individual and company performance objectives

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