Senior Architect - Cloud Cybersecurity
United Airlines
**Description**
Find your future at United! We’re reinventing what our industry looks like, and what an airline can be – from the planes we fly to the people who fly them. When you join us, you’re joining a global team of 100,000+ connected by a shared passion with a wide spectrum of experience and skills to lead the way forward.
Join our Cybersecurity and Digital Risk (CDR) team to help us also lead the airline industry in cyber-safety. 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 standards.
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**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 engineering, platform engineering, and technology 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 and resiliency architecture strategies, frameworks and patterns while partnering closely with other cybersecurity teams and collaborating with partner organization
+ Actively partner with stakeholders to understand business requirements and develop supporting security and resiliency principles to ensure adoption of industry and enterprise best practices
+ 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
**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 and risk assessment
+ 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
+ CCIE, CCDE or alternate vendor equivalent
+ AWS Solution Architect Pro., Networking, and Security Specializations
+ CISSP, ISSAP, ISSEP, ISSMP
+ CISM, CRISC, CEH, GIAC Family
+ CKA and Security (Kubernetes)
+ 8+ years of technical experience, 5 years directly related to cloud
Job Post expiration date: 4/30/2025
The base pay range for this role is $109,820.00 to $149,600.00.
The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.
You may be eligible for the following competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability, parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) and flight privileges.
United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. Equal Opportunity Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact JobAccommodations@united.com to request accommodation.
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