Frontier Airlines

Engineer - Cybersecurity

Frontier Airlines$100K — $132K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, technology, or equivalent experience needed.
  • 6+ years of experience in cybersecurity operations or engineering required.
  • Hands-on experience of 4+ years with cybersecurity products like EDR, Secure Email Gateways, and SIEM is essential.
  • 3+ years of enterprise firewall administration or auditing experience is required.
  • Industry certifications such as CISSP, CEH, or SANS are required or must be attained within 3 months.
  • Experience with cloud environments (Azure/AWS) and security design/implementation is required.

Responsibilities

  • Research, design, and deploy scalable security controls for IT/business projects.
  • Provide technical leadership in cybersecurity solution design and implementation.
  • Collaborate with IT teams to ensure a secure infrastructure environment.
  • Support cybersecurity incident response efforts and handle escalations.
  • Conduct risk assessments and evaluate cybersecurity tools and processes.
  • Maintain compliance with PCI-DSS, TSA, SOX, and other regulations.
  • Assist in disaster recovery planning and business continuity efforts.

Benefits

  • Participation in an 'on-call' rotation with night and weekend availability as scheduled.
  • Flexible work in a typical office environment with some remote possibilities.
  • No supervisory responsibilities, allowing for focused technical work.
  • Exposure to cutting-edge cybersecurity tools and technologies.
Full Job Description
What Will You Be Doing?

The Cybersecurity Engineer will be part of a Cybersecurity team that assesses, designs, implements, troubleshoots, and supports the cybersecurity posture of Frontier's network infrastructure. The Cybersecurity Engineer will report to the Manager of Cybersecurity Architecture & Engineering, enabling cybersecurity design and implementation efforts to protect Frontier's network and systems against cyber-attacks and data breaches. The Cybersecurity Engineer is responsible for providing technical input on projects for Frontier's on-prem and cloud environments. The Engineer is responsible for planning, implementing, maintaining, and supervising cybersecurity controls, practices, and infrastructure.

Essential Functions

  • Research, design, and deploy resilient, reliable, and scalable security controls for IT/business projects.
  • Provide technical leadership in designing, implementing, testing, and rolling out of cybersecurity solutions and/or cyber controls in IT/Business projects.
  • Collaborate with the IT team to deliver a secure, resilient, and reliable infrastructure environment.
  • Participate in and contribute to identification of cybersecurity tools and systems, business continuity planning, and disaster recovery efforts.
  • Provide platform support for cybersecurity technologies include but are not limited to: Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Security Incident Event Management (SIEM), Brand Monitoring, Threat Intelligence, User Behavior Analytics, File Integrity Monitoring, Firewall Analyzer, DDoS Mitigation, Secure Internet Access/Web Content Filters, Endpoint Detection & Response, Vulnerability Management, Security Hardening, SOAR-Orchestration, Cloud Security Platforms, and Secure Email Gateway.
  • Ability to secure storage, web, application, networking components in Cloud environments (Azure and AWS).
  • Support cybersecurity service management request queue (incidents/service requests)
  • Support and contribute to change control and change approval board functions.
  • Support design, maintenance, and analysis of the network architecture to protect against cybersecurity threats and exposed vectors.
  • Execute and improve core functions of incident response including threat detection/prevention, detection engineering, incident response, security monitoring, and digital forensics.
  • Support cybersecurity incident response efforts, handling escalations with Cybersecurity Operations and managed service providers.
  • Assess vulnerabilities and threats to the network, evaluate available security processes and technologies and make recommendations to management and business partners.
  • Support patch and vulnerability management program efforts (such as: vulnerability read-outs, solution analysis, technical direction in administrator breakout sessions)
  • Research latest security threats, cybersecurity standards/frameworks, and vulnerabilities to assess the organizations threat landscape.
  • Provide regular status updates to leadership on ongoing projects, maintenance, and systems support.
  • Assist in efforts to maintain compliance with PCI-DSS, TSA, SOX, and other external/internal compliance requirements.
  • Provide cybersecurity expertise in evaluation of 3rd party vendor risk management reviews.
  • Participate in "on-call" rotations requiring night and weekend availability as scheduled, provide additional availability 24/7, when necessary.


Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, technology, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience (required).
  • 6+ years cybersecurity operations and/or engineering experience required.
  • 4+ years in security engineering with hands-on experience with enterprise cybersecurity product type: EDR (SentinelOne, Crowdstrike, or Cylance) (required).
  • 4+ years in security engineering with hands-on experience with enterprise cybersecurity product type: Secure Email Gateway (Mimecast, Proofpoint, or Office365 Exchange) (required).
  • 4+ years in security engineering with hands-on experience with enterprise cybersecurity product type: Vulnerability Management (Nessus, Qualys, or Rapid7) (required).
  • 4+ years in security engineering with hands-on experience with enterprise cybersecurity product type: (SIEM (Splunk, Rapid7, or LogRhythm) (required).
  • 3+ years of enterprise firewall administration or auditing experience (required).
  • Industry cybersecurity certification: CompTIA: Security+ or Pentest+, CEH, CISSP, OCSP, SANS: GCIH or GSEC, CISSP, ISACA: CISA or CISM, Security+, SSCP, or CCNA (required, or willing to attain within 3 months of start date).
  • Hands-on Cloud cybersecurity design and implementation (Azure/AWS) (required)
  • Design and implementation of security controls including experience in applying security framework methodologies; to include NIST, Cloud (CSA), wired, and wireless security principles (required)
  • Experience with Wireshark and NMAP (required)
  • Experience with URL Filtering/Web Proxy management and troubleshooting (required)
  • PCI-DSS or other security compliance environment experience (highly desirable)


Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • Proficient in troubleshooting network/system related issues and effectively manage components in a production environment.
  • Strong understanding of attack vectors, common intrusion techniques, threat intelligence, application/host/network security hardening, micro-segmentation, network access control, networking protocols, and enterprise risk management concepts.
  • Ability to troubleshoot security, networking, client server, Wi-Fi, and VPN issues.
  • Ability to maintain an understanding of industry trends and stay abreast of current vulnerabilities and security concerns, understanding their impact on the organization.
  • Expert knowledge of enterprise firewall management and deployment.
  • Broad and thorough knowledge of enterprise security systems and devices.
  • Proficient in deploying and managing complex Cloud infrastructures (Azure/AWS).
  • Knowledgeable in penetration testing and vulnerability assessments and remediation.
  • Proficient in network traffic and packet analysis.
  • Demonstrable experience working with configuration management/automation tools.
  • Ability to remain organized and to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of internal team members and 3rd party providers.
  • Work calmly and methodically under pressure and against tight deadlines.
  • Able to accurately estimate level of effort and deliver projects within scheduled commitments.
  • Ability to quickly learn new systems, devices, and methodologies.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write detailed technical documents.
  • Willing to work more than 40 hours and some weekends.
  • Willing to do On-Call rotation for after hours and weekend support.
  • Communicates clearly and effectively.
  • Manages time efficiently and multi-tasks effectively.
  • Exceptional customer service skills.


Equipment Operated

Laptop endpoint running Windows and a variety of cybersecurity applications and commercial tools.

Work Environment

Typical office environment, adequately heated and cooled

Will require being on call for afterhours and weekend support

Physical Effort

Light physical effort required by handling objects up to 20 pounds occasionally and/or up to 10 pounds frequently.

Supervision Received

General Direction: The incumbent normally receives little instruction on day-to-day work and receives general instructions on new assignments.

Salary Range: $100,104 - $132,870 - Please note: this role will close on or before 9/30/26.

Positions Supervised

  • None


Workplace Policies

Disclaimer: The above statements are intended only to describe the general nature and level of work required of the referenced position; they are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of individuals in this position. Please be advised that duties and expectations of this position may be subject to change.

About Frontier Airlines

Frontier Airlines is a low-cost airline that operates flights to over 100 destinations in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Frontier Airlines is known for its low fares and customer-friendly policies, such as allowing passengers to bring one personal item and one carry-on bag for free. The airline has a fleet of over 100 aircraft and is constantly expanding its route network.
Learn more about Frontier Airlines
Size
4,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1994

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