Senior Manager - Aircraft Cybersecurity Operations

$126,225 - $185,130/Yr

Lee Company - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Senior

Chicago, IL

5,001-10,000 employees

Personal and Laundry Services

About the position

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 best practices. 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!

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of highly innovative cybersecurity engineers responsible for assessing and maintaining end-to-end security architecture of United's aircraft-related products, applications, and services.
• Create and implement a strategy to ensure compliance with aircraft cybersecurity regulations and standards required by FAA and pertinent OEMs.
• Integrate effectively with internal and external partners, including industry working groups and regulators, to influence the aircraft cybersecurity strategy.
• Provide periodic updates, education, and presentations to staff and management on various aspects of aircraft cybersecurity.
• Accountable for administrative management of aircraft cybersecurity professionals, including HR administration, salary administration, and time reporting.
• Define, prioritize, allocate resources, track, and provide status reporting of work assignments, projects, and programs.
• Monitor changes in aircraft regulation and compliance standards that affect operators and proactively update standards, best practices, and architectures.
• Lead, coordinate, and evaluate the work of the aircraft cybersecurity department to ensure the security, confidentiality, integrity, and availability of United's aircraft-related systems, products, and services.
• Establish relationships and partnerships with functional areas across the business to raise awareness and support for aircraft cybersecurity.
• Coordinate department activities with internal/external technology and business owners/service providers.
• Provide overall resource/project management for the department, including matching people to projects and obtaining needed resources.
• Maintain relationships with internal and external audit agencies to facilitate execution of required audits.
• Lead efforts to manage the development and implementation of aircraft cybersecurity strategies consistent with regulatory and internal standard methodology and guidance.
• Work with multi-functional teams to develop, document, and implement aircraft cybersecurity standards, best practices, and architectures.
• Lead the planning, documentation, and execution of aircraft cybersecurity risk assessments.
• Coordinate remediation of non-compliant items to meet applicable compliance standards and best practices.
• Be available to respond to unplanned cybersecurity and risk management events, including crisis situations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in STEM or Engineering Field of Study, such as Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Embedded Security Engineering, or other applicable technical degree.
• Aviation experience (OEM, Supplier, Operator, Airport, Maintenance, etc.).
• 9 or more years of combined related experience in either aircraft engineering, aircraft cybersecurity, systems engineering, product security architecture, or other similar related fields.
• Strong and proven ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience and collaborators.
• Experience with threat modeling or other risk identification techniques, and risk management.
• Experience leading teams to identify strategic and tactical risk.
• Experience partnering and influencing cross-functional teams to drive security improvements.
• Experience driving prioritization of security risks/vulnerabilities and ensuring that they are properly understood by the business and fixed and/or mitigated.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions and recommendations and drive actions.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to convey sophisticated technical subjects in a concise and direct manner.
• Demonstrated problem solving, critical thinking, logical structuring skills and a willingness to learn and stretch outside of your comfort zone.
• Demonstrated knowledge on threat landscape, security threat and vulnerability management, and security monitoring and analytics.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship.
• Reliable, punctual attendance is a crucial function of the position.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree.
• One or more of the following: CEH, GSEC, CISM, Comp TIA Security +, CISSP, CISA, SSCP, CASP+, OSCP.
• 12+ years of relative experience.
• Solid understanding and/or hands-on experience with aviation cybersecurity.
• Experience with aviation industry and/or design of aircraft-related systems and products (e.g. Satcom, In-Flight Entertainment, Data Recorders, Propulsion Systems, Airframes, etc.).
• Operating system & platform security.
• Networking Security and an understanding of network and web-related protocols.
• Strong subject matter expertise in the fields of IT security and risk management.
• Strong knowledge of IT infrastructure security best practices, procedures, and standards.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.
• Experience within the transformation of traditional data center security measures into industry adopted cloud technologies.
• Proven track record of working with compliance frameworks and requirements.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and Agile development environment.
• Experience providing training and mentorship.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits package including parental leave and 401k.
• Privileges like space available travel.
• Employee-run "Business Resource Group" communities.