Chicago, IL, USA
1 day ago
Senior Architect - Cloud Cybersecurity

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.

Achieving our ambitions starts with supporting yours. Evolve your career and find your next opportunity. Get the care you need with industry-leading health plans and best-in-class programs to support your emotional, physical, and financial wellness. Expand your horizons with travel across the world’s biggest route network. Connect outside your team through employee-led Business Resource Groups.

Create what’s next with us. Let’s define tomorrow together. 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 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 organizationActively partner with stakeholders to understand business requirements and develop supporting security and resiliency principles to ensure adoption of industry and enterprise best practicesDemonstrates expert technology competence in two or more domains such as security, resiliency, infrastructure, platform, product, endpoint, application, identity management, and data security, and zero trustAnalyze 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 plansAssists in defining and implementing Security Standards/frameworksTrain and coach development and engineering teams to integrate CI/CD pipeline tools, test plans and vulnerabilities assessment tools for CloudServe as a champion for secure infrastructure-as-code for end-to-end configuration and overall success of the IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environmentsThreat modeling, end-to-end security evaluation, design and development of cloud security policies, standards and procedures for various types of public/private/hybrid clouds

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.

Achieving our ambitions starts with supporting yours. Evolve your career and find your next opportunity. Get the care you need with industry-leading health plans and best-in-class programs to support your emotional, physical, and financial wellness. Expand your horizons with travel across the world’s biggest route network. Connect outside your team through employee-led Business Resource Groups.

Create what’s next with us. Let’s define tomorrow together. 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 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 organizationActively partner with stakeholders to understand business requirements and develop supporting security and resiliency principles to ensure adoption of industry and enterprise best practicesDemonstrates expert technology competence in two or more domains such as security, resiliency, infrastructure, platform, product, endpoint, application, identity management, and data security, and zero trustAnalyze 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 plansAssists in defining and implementing Security Standards/frameworksTrain and coach development and engineering teams to integrate CI/CD pipeline tools, test plans and vulnerabilities assessment tools for CloudServe as a champion for secure infrastructure-as-code for end-to-end configuration and overall success of the IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environmentsThreat modeling, end-to-end security evaluation, design and development of cloud security policies, standards and procedures for various types of public/private/hybrid cloudsWhat’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):Bachelors degree required4 years of technical experience directly related to cloudDemonstrable experience with the development, optimization and implementation of security technologies including application security, data security, network security and identity access managementStrong knowledge of cloud computing technologies and risk assessmentPersonable nature with the ability to work as a part of or lead a team effectivelyStrong written and verbal communication skillsGood analytical, problem solving and decision-making abilitiesProgramming language structures and logicKnowledge of common adversary tactics, techniques, and proceduresKnowledge of how traffic flows across the network and packet-level analysisSecure 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 processMust be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorshipSuccessful completion of interview required to meet job qualificationReliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the positionWhat will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):Masters degreeCCIE, CCDE or alternate vendor equivalentAWS Solution Architect Pro., Networking, and Security SpecializationsCISSP, ISSAP, ISSEP, ISSMPCISM, CRISC, CEH, GIAC FamilyCKA and Security (Kubernetes)8 years of technical experience, 5 years directly related to cloud


Job Post expiration date: 4/30/2025

What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):Bachelors degree required4 years of technical experience directly related to cloudDemonstrable experience with the development, optimization and implementation of security technologies including application security, data security, network security and identity access managementStrong knowledge of cloud computing technologies and risk assessmentPersonable nature with the ability to work as a part of or lead a team effectivelyStrong written and verbal communication skillsGood analytical, problem solving and decision-making abilitiesProgramming language structures and logicKnowledge of common adversary tactics, techniques, and proceduresKnowledge of how traffic flows across the network and packet-level analysisSecure 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 processMust be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorshipSuccessful completion of interview required to meet job qualificationReliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the positionWhat will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):Masters degreeCCIE, CCDE or alternate vendor equivalentAWS Solution Architect Pro., Networking, and Security SpecializationsCISSP, ISSAP, ISSEP, ISSMPCISM, CRISC, CEH, GIAC FamilyCKA and Security (Kubernetes)8 years of technical experience, 5 years directly related to cloud


Job Post expiration date: 4/30/2025

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