Engineer - Application Cybersecurity

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.Key Responsibilities:The Engineer- Application Cybersecurity helps validate that our services, applications, and websites are designed and implemented in accordance with United’s secure development standards. The engineer works closely with development teams, product teams, and other teams across the organization to integrate security into the product lifecycle from design through deployment.Perform code analysis of applications, manually and using application security testing solutions including mobile application security tests as well as conducting manual vulnerability analysis, and assisting product teams with vulnerability remediation.Improve the accessibility of security through automation, continuous integration pipelines, and other means including but not limited to developing and maintaining CI/CD templates.Research, define and communicate security best practices and standards and ensure products development teams understand them.Support security architecture design reviews and threat modeling of our products.What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):Bachelor's degree in STEM.Minimum of 3 years of experience in related field.Working knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and CWE 25.Basic understanding of threat modeling.Basic understanding of DevSecOps (e.g., CI/CD).Working knowledge with application testing (e.g., SAST, DAST, MAST, RAST, IAST).Working knowledge of programming languages and scripting.Basic understanding of SDLC process.Basic understanding of web and app security stack (e.g., API security).Basic understanding of cloud technologies and security.Basic understanding of vulnerability management processes and proficiency in providing remediation guidance.Basic understanding of compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53) and processes.Working knowledge with technical documentation / Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) creation.Basic understanding of cryptography.Basic technical understanding of authentication and authorization flows in web applications.Basic understanding of networks and network security (e.g., WAF, Micro-segmentation).Ability to work independently and self-motivate.Excellent 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.United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

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