United Air Lines, Inc

Engineer - Infra and Cloud Cybersecurity

United Air Lines, Inc$95K — $115K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • 2+ years of experience in a technical role
  • Basic understanding of cloud infrastructure services and best practices
  • Proficiency with data visualization tools like QuickSight or PowerBI
  • Basic understanding of zero trust architectures and secure connectivity methods
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship

Responsibilities

  • Support and enhance cybersecurity team outcomes through solution delivery
  • Evaluate business strategies to determine cybersecurity requirements
  • Design robust cybersecurity architectures for IT projects
  • Communicate security needs and priorities to upper management
  • Stay informed on the latest security systems and standards
  • Design elements of cybersecurity architecture to address emerging threats
  • Define and maintain corporate security policies and standards

Benefits

  • Work within a cross-disciplinary cyber team
  • Engage with full stack security architecture
  • Opportunity to contribute to the maturity of infrastructure security capabilities
  • Continuous improvement of cyber controls and workflows
  • Participation in cutting-edge cybersecurity practices
Full Job Description
Description

Job overview and responsibilities

The Engineer - Infrastructure and Cloud Cybersecurity supports efforts to mature infrastructure security capabilities for United Airlines. 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, platform, engineering, and operations teams to ensure the adoption of security best practices across the entire application or system lifecycle. The role will continuously assess risks and weaknesses and identify security design or implementation gaps in existing products and services. The role with help continuously improve our cyber controls and associated playbooks, workflows, processes, and procedures.

  • Enhance cybersecurity team accomplishments and competencies by planning the delivery of solutions and answering technical questions
  • Determine cybersecurity requirements by evaluating business strategies, pain points, and use cases
  • Plan, research, and design robust cybersecurity architectures for any IT project
  • Regularly communicate vital information, security needs and priorities to upper management
  • Remain up to date with the latest security systems, standards, authentication protocols, and products
  • Design cybersecurity architecture elements to mitigate threats as they emerge
  • Identify and communicate current and emerging security threats
  • Define, implement, and maintain corporate security policies, procedures, and standards


Qualifications

What's needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • 2+ years of experience in a technical role or ECDLP
  • Basic understanding of cloud infrastructure services, concepts, and best practices
  • Baseline proficiency with QuickSight, Glue, or comparable tools like PowerBI or Tableau
  • Basic understanding of secure connectivity methods via private or encrypted means
  • Basic understanding of cloud interconnectivity methods
  • Basic understanding of zero trust network architectures and principles
  • Basic understanding with security assessments and remediation guidance
  • Working knowledge in secure configuration practices for operating systems and infrastructure components
  • Ability to work independently and self-motivate
  • Excellent analytical, 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
  • Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position


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

  • Certification such as CISSP, CCNA, AWS Security, Architect, CCSP, CEH
  • 4+ years in a technical role
  • Working knowledge of information security techniques and tools like content filtering, application firewalls, vulnerability scanners, EDR, forensics software, incident response, SIEM, SOAR, NAC, etc
  • Working knowledge of OS or compute infrastructure components and technologies like Unix/Linux, Windows, Docker, Kubernetes, VMWare, EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda
  • Working knowledge of endpoint security technologies such as endpoint detection and response and mobile device management
  • Working knowledge of Data Loss Prevention (DLP) concepts and services
  • Working knowledge of secure wireless protocols, techniques, and products
  • Working knowledge of common enterprise services like DNS, DHCP, LDAP, SMB, CIFS, NTP, etc
  • Working knowledge of identity and access management services, techniques concepts
  • Working knowledge of role-based access control
  • Basic understanding of compliance frameworks and processes (e.g., NIST 800-53, CIS Controls)


Job Post Expiration 9/20/2026

About United Air Lines, Inc

United Airlines is a major American airline that operates a large domestic and international route network. The company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and is a founding member of the Star Alliance, the world's largest airline alliance. United Airlines operates a fleet of over 800 aircraft and serves more than 350 destinations in over 50 countries.
Learn more about United Air Lines, Inc
Size
87,400 employees
Market Cap
$12.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$7 billion
Founded
1926
5 Year Trend
-7.6%
Revenue
$15.3 billion
NASDAQ

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