About the role
Product Security Architect We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Product Security Architect to join our team and help secure next-generation satellite systems. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Product Security, you will be responsible for embedding security throughout the product lifecycle — from design and development to deployment and operations — ensuring the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of our space and ground-based assets.
Main Responsibilities
- Threat Modeling & Risk Assessment: Conduct threat modeling and security risk assessments for satellite hardware, software, and communication systems.
- Secure Design & Architecture: Collaborate with engineering teams to design secure systems, including onboard satellite software, ground control systems, and data links.
- Vulnerability Management: Evaluate and support remediation efforts related to vulnerabilities in embedded systems, firmware, and satellite communication protocols.
- Security Testing: Propose test use cases and review testing results for assessments such as penetration testing, fuzzing, and static/dynamic code analysis on satellite and ground systems.
- Compliance & Standards: Ensure compliance with industry standards/frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, and space-specific cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., CCSDS, CNSSI 1253).
- Incident Response: Create concepts of operation for incident detection, analysis, and response to security events affecting satellite products.
- Tooling & Automation: Ensure the software development lifecycle follows industry best practices and utilize appropriate security tools to automate security checks.
- Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with software, hardware, systems, and mission assurance teams to champion security best practices.
Education/Experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in product or embedded security architecture.
- Experience in the aerospace or satellite industry.
- Certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, CEH, or GIAC.
Specialized Knowledge, Skills And Abilities
- Strong understanding of embedded systems security, real-time operating systems (RTOS), and secure communications.
- Knowledge of space system architectures, including satellite buses, payloads, and ground stations.
- Extensive understanding of the space industry threat landscape.
- Experience with security tools (e.g., SAST, DAST, Splunk).
- Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53, ISO/IEC 27001).
- Familiarity with space situational awareness (SSA) and anti-jamming/anti-spoofing techniques.
- Experience with DevSecOps in aerospace environments.
, : Mike Gebara
About Myticas Consulting
Myticas Consulting is a proven industry-leading IT Staffing and Recruitment organization, with active locations in major North American cities such as Ottawa Ontario, Chicago Illinois, and Atlanta Georgia.
Our large team of IT recruitment and sales professionals have over 50+ years of combined experience providing the highest quality of Telecommunication Engineering, ERP and IT Software Development resources, to both Public and Private sector enterprise level environments.
Here at Myticas, we strive to continually provide unmatched quality of IT resources, that prove to stand the test of time, and go above and beyond all project expectations and deliverables.
The "motto" at Myticas is not only to work with you, but to understand what success really looks like for your organization, and to deliver the IT staffing needs that matter most to increasing both the functionality and efficiency of your environment.
With our evolving expertise in Telecom, ERP, DW/BI and EAI resources, and a guaranteed replacement program for all our partners, the defined win-win scenario has never been presented in a more simple manner.
About the role
Product Security Architect We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Product Security Architect to join our team and help secure next-generation satellite systems. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Product Security, you will be responsible for embedding security throughout the product lifecycle — from design and development to deployment and operations — ensuring the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of our space and ground-based assets.
Main Responsibilities
- Threat Modeling & Risk Assessment: Conduct threat modeling and security risk assessments for satellite hardware, software, and communication systems.
- Secure Design & Architecture: Collaborate with engineering teams to design secure systems, including onboard satellite software, ground control systems, and data links.
- Vulnerability Management: Evaluate and support remediation efforts related to vulnerabilities in embedded systems, firmware, and satellite communication protocols.
- Security Testing: Propose test use cases and review testing results for assessments such as penetration testing, fuzzing, and static/dynamic code analysis on satellite and ground systems.
- Compliance & Standards: Ensure compliance with industry standards/frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, and space-specific cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., CCSDS, CNSSI 1253).
- Incident Response: Create concepts of operation for incident detection, analysis, and response to security events affecting satellite products.
- Tooling & Automation: Ensure the software development lifecycle follows industry best practices and utilize appropriate security tools to automate security checks.
- Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with software, hardware, systems, and mission assurance teams to champion security best practices.
Education/Experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in product or embedded security architecture.
- Experience in the aerospace or satellite industry.
- Certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, CEH, or GIAC.
Specialized Knowledge, Skills And Abilities
- Strong understanding of embedded systems security, real-time operating systems (RTOS), and secure communications.
- Knowledge of space system architectures, including satellite buses, payloads, and ground stations.
- Extensive understanding of the space industry threat landscape.
- Experience with security tools (e.g., SAST, DAST, Splunk).
- Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53, ISO/IEC 27001).
- Familiarity with space situational awareness (SSA) and anti-jamming/anti-spoofing techniques.
- Experience with DevSecOps in aerospace environments.
, : Mike Gebara
About Myticas Consulting
Myticas Consulting is a proven industry-leading IT Staffing and Recruitment organization, with active locations in major North American cities such as Ottawa Ontario, Chicago Illinois, and Atlanta Georgia.
Our large team of IT recruitment and sales professionals have over 50+ years of combined experience providing the highest quality of Telecommunication Engineering, ERP and IT Software Development resources, to both Public and Private sector enterprise level environments.
Here at Myticas, we strive to continually provide unmatched quality of IT resources, that prove to stand the test of time, and go above and beyond all project expectations and deliverables.
The "motto" at Myticas is not only to work with you, but to understand what success really looks like for your organization, and to deliver the IT staffing needs that matter most to increasing both the functionality and efficiency of your environment.
With our evolving expertise in Telecom, ERP, DW/BI and EAI resources, and a guaranteed replacement program for all our partners, the defined win-win scenario has never been presented in a more simple manner.