Join the United Airlines Team: Pioneering Innovation in Aviation through Technology
United Airlines, Inc., a major American airline headquartered at the Willis Tower in Chicago, Illinois, is expanding its team with a new opening for a Senior Architect - Cloud Network Security. This role offers a unique opportunity to work remotely and be part of a cutting-edge Digital Technology team that spans the globe. As a leader in the aviation industry, United Airlines operates a large domestic and international route network, serving cities across the United States and all six inhabited continents.
About United Airlines
At United Airlines, our common perspective - Interfacing Individuals, Joining the World - is about more than getting people from one spot to another. It also means that as a global organization operating in many areas around the world with thousands of clients and employees, we have a unique obligation to elevate and provide opportunities in the places where we work, live, and fly. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve.
Our Culture and Values
We believe that inclusion drives innovation and is the foundation of all that we do. Our Digital Technology team is composed of diverse individuals working together with state-of-the-art technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation. We offer a competitive benefits package aimed at keeping you happy, healthy, and well-traveled. From employee-run communities to top-notch benefits like parental leave, 401k, and honors like space-accessible travel, United is an exceptional workplace.
Job Summary
As a Senior Architect - Cloud Network Security, you will be part of a cross-disciplinary Digital team responsible for full-stack security engineering. You will play a crucial role in developing and maintaining cloud security capabilities for United Airlines. This position requires a strong and diverse skillset in relevant areas to drive success.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and advance security and resilience engineering strategies, systems, and patterns while collaborating with other cybersecurity teams and partner organizations.
- Effectively cooperate with teammates to understand business requirements and foster supporting security and resilience standards to ensure adoption of industry and enterprise standard systems.
- Demonstrate mastery of technology expertise in at least two areas, such as security, resilience, infrastructure, platform, product, endpoint, application, identity management, and data security, and zero trust.
- Analyze technical risks of existing organization/system and application architectures (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS and on-premise) against connecting policies and threats, and provide proper remediation or risk reduction plans.
- Help define and implement Security Principles and systems.
- Train and mentor development and engineering teams to integrate CI/CD pipeline tools, test plans, and vulnerability assessment instruments for Cloud.
- Act as a thought leader for secure infrastructure as-code for start-to-finish design and overall outcome of the IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments.
- Perform threat modeling, end-to-end security assessment, design and development of cloud security solutions, guidelines, and systems for different types of public/private/hybrid clouds.
Requirements
Essential Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field.
- 4+ years of technical experience directly related to cloud (AWS).
- Experience in AWS security, management, and administration services.
- Proven experience in the development, implementation, and execution of security technologies, including application security, data security, network security, and identity and access management.
- Solid knowledge of cloud computing technologies.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
- Knowledge of programming language designs and logic.
- Familiarity with common threat tactics, techniques, and procedures.
- Understanding of how traffic flows across the network and packet-level analysis.
- Secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC).
- Experience with developer and DevOps experience from code deployment to infrastructure image build, continuous integration, and continuous deployment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Graduate degree.
- 8+ years of technical experience, with 5 years directly related to cloud.
- CCIE, CCDE, or equivalent vendor certifications.
- AWS Solution Architect Expert, Networking, and Security Specializations.
- CISSP, ISSAP, ISSEP, ISSMP.
- CISM, CRISC, CEH, GIAC certifications.
- CKA and Security (Kubernetes).
- CDK.
What We Offer
As a remote employee at United Airlines, you can expect:
- Competitive salary of $30-$35/hour.
- Opportunities for career growth and professional development.
- Comprehensive benefits package, including parental leave, 401k, and travel perks.
- Flexible work arrangements and remote work opportunities.
- Diverse and inclusive work environment.
How to Apply
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United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from diverse candidates and encourage you to apply if you meet the minimum qualifications.
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