Senior Security Design Specialist

Senior Security Design Specialist

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company is looking for a highly experienced Senior Security Design Specialist to join the Network Infrastructure Services & Data Centers (NIS & DC) team in either Seattle, WA; Arlington, VA; Berkeley, MO; Huntington Beach, CA; North Charleston, SC; or Ridley Park, PA.

Boeing is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Professional to serve as a security liaison embedded within the Networking & Data Center Information Technology (IT) team. This role partners directly with infrastructure engineering and operations to drive security, compliance, audit readiness, and vulnerability risk reduction through repeatable, automated controls and pragmatic governance. 

The ideal candidate combines deep infrastructure security fluency (network, data center, platforms) with the ability to influence architecture and investment decisions, develop roadmaps and transformation plans, and operationalize compliance via templates/guardrails, validation checks, remediation workflows, and automated evidence collection. 

Position Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary cybersecurity liaison for Networking & Data Center IT, translating enterprise security requirements into actionable engineering standards and operational practices

• Own and evolve infrastructure security and compliance roadmaps across network and data center domains, proposing modernization and transformation options aligned to business outcomes

• Partner with architecture and engineering leaders to influence policy, design, and investment decisions, connecting technical choices to risk posture, reliability, customer experience, and financial metrics

• Develop scenario analyses and recommendations that clearly communicate impacts, tradeoffs, constraints, and risks to both engineering teams and executive stakeholders

• Drive infrastructure compliance through automation by embedding security, policy, audit, and configuration standards into repeatable workflows (e.g., golden templates/guardrails, validation checks, automated remediation, and evidence collection)

• Lead and coordinate vulnerability risk management activities for infrastructure

• Triage and prioritize findings with engineering owners 

• Establish SLAs and exception processes 

• Track remediation to closure and support retesting/verification 

• Direct or support technical initiatives from concept to validation, including test planning/execution, inspections, analysis, and clear technical reporting

• Identify architectural weaknesses and opportunities; implement automation and efficiency improvements that reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and speed delivery

• Support audits and compliance assessments (internal/external) by ensuring controls are documented, evidence is timely, and stakeholders are prepared

• Build strong partnerships across cybersecurity, compliance, risk, engineering, and operations; act as a trusted advisor and escalation point for infrastructure security issue

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• 10+ years’ experience with security infrastructure, product and cybersecurity systems analysis, design, development, and testing

• Experience building roadmaps, strategy and leading enterprise initiatives to completion 

• Experience with data center infrastructure and technologies including network and transport services, server clusters and virtualization, and storage

• 3+ years’ Experience in Vulnerability management operations in scanning, report creation and custom scripts

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field

• Experience in translating security requirements into engineering standards and automated control patterns (policy-as-code concepts, configuration baselines, validation, automated evidence)

• Experience driving a culture of can-do attitude and innovation

• Excellent interpersonal skills and be able to build and maintain strong working relationships

• Experience in intelligence requirements, GSOC operations and/or security and fire protection activity is desirable

• Knowledge of non-US locations and culture is desirable

• Strong communication skills: able to write crisp technical narratives, present tradeoffs, and influence senior stakeholders

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