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Description

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 to becoming the best airline in aviation history. Join our Cybersecurity and Digital Risk (CDR) team to help lead the industry in cyber safety, security and resilience. United's CDR team plays a critical role in protecting our operations by enabling secure and resilient systems, managing threats and vulnerabilities, and ensuring swift response and recovery. Our mission is to seamlessly embed cybersecurity and digital risk management into every aspect of our business. We help drive progress and growth through trusted digital solutions, safeguarding assets and empowering our team, all while promoting a cyber-safe and secure environment that supports resilient airline operations.

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, 401(k), 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!

 

Job overview and responsibilities

The Senior Architect - Application Cybersecurity helps validate that our services, applications, and websites are designed and implemented in accordance with United’s secure development standards. The Senior Architect works closely with development teams, product teams, and other teams across the organization to integrate security into the product lifecycle from design through deployment.  

The Senior Architect will work with security architects, design and develop applications or technical solutions for the validation and enforcement of security requirements, performing application security assessments, and providing developers with remediation guidance and advice.
 

• Analyze security requirements, design and develop applications to automate security review, compliance validation, and security operations, leveraging application security testing and monitoring solutions.
• Improve the accessibility of security through automation, continuous integration pipelines, and other means.
• Research, define and drive for security best practices and standards and ensure products development teams understand them; Create technical documentation and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) as needed.
• Support security architecture design and analysis and improve our products. Perform code analysis of applications, manually and using SAST, DAST, and SCA scanning solutions as well as conducting manual vulnerability analysis.
• Technical point of contact for product teams as it relates to automation, CI/CD, and remediation guidance.
   

Qualifications

What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

 

• Bachelor's degree required, STEM field highly preferred
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a related field
• Proficiency with application development programming with Python
• Proficiency with various software architectures including API, microservices
• Proficiency with scripting
• Understanding of OWASP Top 10 and/or CWE 25
• Basic understanding of threat modeling
• Proficiency with DevSecOps technology (i.e., CI/CD, AWS, Harness, TeamCity, GitHub, Artifactory, CHEF, CloudWatch)
• Proficiency with application security tools and testing (i.e., SAST, DAST, MAST, RAST, IAST)
• Proficiency with risk management processes
• Knowledge of common vulnerabilities and attack vectors, ubiquitous encryption technologies, and/or common authentication protocols
• Basic knowledge of cloud security infrastructure technologies (i.e., K8s, service mesh, micro-services)
• Proficiency with vulnerability management processes and providing remediation guidance
• Basic understanding of compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53) and processes
• 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
   

 

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

 

• Certifications like CASE, AWS CSAA, CEH, GSEC, CISM, Security+, CISSP, CISA, SSCP, CASP+, OSCP
• Experience with any combination of the following: threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security, cloud computing
• Proficiency with various software architectures including API, microservices
• Basic understanding of networks and network security (i.e., WAF, Micro-segmentation)
• Application penetration testing to demonstrate and test exploitability of vulnerabilities
• Understand infrastructure as code (CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.)
• Proficiency with cryptography

• Proficiency with technical understanding of IAM (i.e., authentication and authorization)

  
   

 

Job Post Expiration: 2/28/2026

The base pay range for this role is $112,480.00 to $146,540.00.
The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.

You may be eligible for the following competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability, parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) and flight privileges.

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. Equal Opportunity Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact JobAccommodations@united.com to request accommodation.