Senior Engineer - Cybersecurity Operations & Engineering (remote)

United Airlines - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Chicago, IL

Air Transportation

About the position

The Senior Engineer - Cybersecurity Operations and Engineering at United Airlines plays a crucial role in maintaining a secure operating environment for users and business partners. This position involves providing technical expertise in IT security solutions, securing network boundaries, and protecting sensitive data. The role is part of the Cybersecurity and Digital Risk (CDR) team, which is dedicated to embedding cybersecurity into the company's operations and reducing business risk through strong cybersecurity processes.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate infrastructure security solutions and platforms.
• Participate in design, build, and maintenance of network infrastructure emphasizing security controls.
• Develop schemes and technology to secure and monitor new technologies as they are onboarded.
• Proactively propose security improvements and stay abreast of evolving security threats.
• Create formal documentation such as architecture diagrams, technical designs, and standard operating procedures.
• Participate in client projects as a security Domain Expert.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 4+ years of enterprise-level systems engineering and/or cybersecurity experience.
• Strong skills with Cribl (Regex).
• Experience in Network Security Monitoring or investigation practices.
• Experience working with cloud technologies management, administration, and architecture.
• Operational experience with Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol fundamentals, Internet Protocol subnetting, routing and switching protocols, and network management.
• Skills in Next-Generation Firewall, Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System, Virtual Private Network, Network Address Translation, Port Address Translation, Web Proxy, Web Application Firewall, Cloud Access Security Broker, Data Loss Prevention, Cloud, Workload Protection.
• Demonstrated a high sense of urgency with strong pragmatic problem-solving skills.
• Proficient in writing commands via the command line interface in Windows, Unix, and Linux.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree or equivalent experience.
• Industry certifications such as the CISSP, CISM, CISA, GCIH, CFCE, GFCA, and/or GCFE.
• 7+ years of enterprise-level systems engineering experience.
• Hands-on scripting/programming experience.
• Experience responding to cyber security incidents.
• Detailed understanding of Advanced Persistent Threat, Cyber Crime and other associated cyber threat tactics.
• Experience with endpoint incident response technologies.

Benefits

• Parental leave
• 401k
• Space available travel privileges