Senior Architect - Cloud Cybersecurity

Description

Connecting People. Uniting the World. There’s never been a more exciting time to join United Airlines! As a global company that operates in hundreds of locations around the world with millions of customers and tens of thousands of employees we have a unique responsibility to uplift and provide opportunities in the places where we work, live and fly.

We’re on a path toward becoming the best airline in the history of aviation. Join our Cybersecurity and Digital Risk (CDR) team to help us also become the leading cyber-safe airline in the industry.

United’s CDR team is tasked with keeping our customers’ and employees’ information safe and secure. Our primary mission is to embed cybersecurity into the DNA of United Airlines by reducing business risk through implementation of strong cybersecurity standard practices.

United offers a competitive benefits package aimed at keeping you happy, healthy and well-traveled. From employee-run "Business Resource Group" communities to world-class benefits like parental leave, 401k and privileges like space available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work.

Are you ready to travel the world and help us keep our airline cyber safe? Apply today!

Key Responsibilities :

The Senior Architect Cloud Cybersecurity supports efforts to mature cloud security capabilities for United Airlines. You will be part of a cross-disciplinary Cyber team responsible for full stack security architecture.

In this role the Architect will work on the creation and maintenance of security relevant documentation and partner with product, platform, engineering, and operations teams to ensure the adoption of security standard processes across the entire application or system lifecycle.

The role with help continuously improve our cyber controls and associated playbooks, workflows, processes, and procedures.

• Develop and promote security architecture strategies, frameworks and patterns while partnering closely with other cybersecurity teams and collaborating with partner organization
• Actively partner with collaborators to understand business requirements and develop supporting security and resiliency principles to ensure adoption of industry and enterprise standards
• Demonstrates expert technology competence in two or more domains such as security, resiliency, infrastructure, platform, product, endpoint, application, identity management, and data security, and zero trust
• Analyze technical risks of existing network / system and application architectures (IAAS / PAAS / SAAS and on premise) against correlating policies and risks, and provides appropriate remediation or risk reduction plans
• Assists in defining and implementing Security Standards / frameworks
• Train and coach development and engineering teams to integrate CI / CD pipeline tools, test plans and vulnerabilities assessment tools for Cloud
• Serve as a champion for secure infrastructure-as-code for end-to-end configuration and overall success of the IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments
• Threat modeling, end-to-end security evaluation, design and development of cloud security policies, standards and procedures for various types of public / private / hybrid clouds

United values diverse experiences, perspectives, and we encourage everyone who meets the minimum qualifications to apply.

While having the desired qualifications make for a stronger candidate, we encourage applicants who may not feel they check ALL of those boxes.

We are always looking for individuals who will bring something new to the table.

Qualifications

What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications) :

• Bachelor's degree required
• 4+ years of technical experience directly related to cloud
• Demonstrable experience with the development, optimization and implementation of security technologies including application security, data security, network security and identity & access management
• Strong knowledge of cloud computing technologies
• Personable nature with the ability to work as a part of or lead a team effectively
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Good analytical, problem solving and decision-making abilities
• Programming language structures and logic
• Knowledge of common adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures
• Knowledge of how traffic flows across the network and packet-level analysis
• Secure software development lifecycle SSDLC Understands processes surrounding developer and DevOps experience from code compilation to system image build (containers, system images), continuous integration and continuous deployment and the tests / validations that take place within that process
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
• Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification
• Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position

What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications) :

• Master's degree or equivalent experience such as 8+ years, with 5 years of cloud focus
• Certifications such as CCIE, CCDE, AWS Solution Architect Pro., Networking, and Security Specializations, CISSP, ISSAP, ISSEP, ISSMP, CISM, CRISC, CEH, GIAC Family, CKA and Security (Kubernetes)
30+ days ago