Senior Architect - Infrastructure Cybersecurity (Remote)

There’s never been a more exciting time to join United Airlines. We’re on a path towards becoming the best airline in the history of aviation. Our shared purpose – Connecting People, Uniting the World – is about more than getting people from one place to another. It also means that 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, and we can only do that with a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. And we’re growing – in the years ahead, we’ll hire tens of thousands of people across every area of the airline. Our careers include 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?

We believe that inclusion propels innovation and is the foundation of all that we do. Uniteds Digital Technology team spans the globe and is made up of diverse individuals all working together with cutting-edge technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation. Our team designs, develops and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.

The Senior Architect – Infrastructure Cybersecurity supports efforts to mature infrastructure 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 methodologies across the entire application or system lifecycle. The architect with help continuously improve our cyber controls and associated playbooks, workflows, processes, and procedures.

• Identify cybersecurity issues, strengths and weaknesses across various cyber domains and partner organizations that introduce risk and provide solutions
• Evaluate existing business security strategies, develop, and implement improvements and new security architectures that align with our cybersecurity strategy
• Plan, design, build, and test approaches and solutions that are tied to business outcomes and our cybersecurity strategy and vision
• Track developments and changes across cybersecurity domains while ensuring that new developments are adequately addressed in our cybersecurity strategy
• Provide cybersecurity guidance when evaluating the impacts of a solution to ensure linkages between our cybersecurity strategy, people, process, and technology
• Participate in and drive security advisory boards and committees, providing security architecture review and process ownership for new and existing solutions
• Develops, reviews, and approves cybersecurity security standards and works with partner cyber domain teams and organization to align on security requirements, while tracking and validating controls are being met

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!

• Bachelors degree
• 6+ years of technical experience, 3 years directly related to security and architecture.
• Desired experience, but not required, in conducting mobile threat assessments to identify vulnerabilities and risks specific to mobile devices, applications, and networks.
• Programming language structures and logic
• Knowledge of the methods, standards, and approaches for describing, analyzing, and documenting an enterprise and security architecture.
• Knowledge of common adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures
• How traffic flows across the network and packet-level analysis
• Knowledge of cyber defense policies, procedures, and regulations
• 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

• Masters degree
• CCNP, CCDP or alternate vendor equivalent
• AWS Solution Architect Associate, Networking, and Security Specializations
• CISSP, ISSAP, ISSEP, ISSMP
• CISM, CRISC, CEH, GIAC Family
• 8+ years of technical experience, 5 years directly related to security and architecture

Salary Range: $108,680 - $137,019

Posting End Date: 4/1/2024

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