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 methodologies.

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:

• Perform security architecture design reviews and threat modelling of our products (cloud and on-prem)

• Help research, define and communicate security practice standards and ensure products development teams understand them

• Learning & Continuous Improvement

• Improve the accessibility of security through automation, continuous integration pipelines, and other means

• Build, deploy and maintain security tooling that supports automation and enforcement of application security standards

• Perform code analysis of applications, manually and using SAST, DAST, and SCA scanning solutions as well as conducting manual vulnerability analysis

• Technical point of contact for product teams as it relates to automation, CI/CD, and remediation guidance

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

• STEM, Computer Science

• 4 years of experience required with any combination of the following: threat modeling, secure coding, secure architecture, security engineering, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security, cloud computing

• Understanding of OWASP Top 10 and CWE 25; Ability to implement and integrate remediation strategies

• Ability to lead complex security projects from start to finish

• Ability to collaborate with development teams to build secure solutions, communicating risks and bringing consensus to diverse priorities

• Knowledge of common vulnerabilities and attack vectors, ubiquitous encryption technologies and common authentication protocols

• Familiar with application risk assessment, risk categorization, and application security testing tools

• Ability to apply current industry standards, best methodologies, and reference architectures to the creation of internal control standards

• Understanding of secure network and system design in both cloud and conventional environments, as well as of network and web related protocols

• Understanding of web applications, web servers, layer 7 application technologies, frameworks and protocols with respect to application development and deployment

• Experience with mobile application security

• Ability to work independently and self-motivate

• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, interpersonal, collaboration, written and verbal communication skills

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship

• Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification

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

• (CEH) Certification

• GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC)

• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

• Comp TIA Security + (CISSP)

• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

• Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)

• CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+)

• Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)

• Application penetration testing to demonstrate and test exploitability of vulnerabilities

• Experience with multiple programming languages

• Success in implementing effective Secure SDLC frameworks across a large corporation

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools including CloudFormation, CDK and Terraform

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. 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.

Range: $100,950 - $148,060 / year

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