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Associate Cybersecurity Engineer - Warrior Hire Program

Southwest Airlines

TX-Headquarters-HDQ, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 16 May 2025

💰 $96,500/yr($86,850/yr – $96,500/yr)

About the role

Department:

Technology

Our Company Promise

We are committed to provide our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Creativity and innovation are encouraged for improving the effectiveness of Southwest Airlines. Above all, Employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude within the organization that they are expected to share externally with every Southwest Customer.

Job Description:

This posting is for multiple technology positions across various Teams in Southwest's Warrior Hire Program. The mission of the Warrior Hire Program is to recruit and hire transitioning Veterans and guide and support them through the beginning of their corporate career by providing them opportunities for professional growth, camaraderie, and mentorship. If you're planning your transition to a civilian career or recently transitioned, this program is designed to support you in that transition and as you join our Southwest Family. Thank you to those who currently or previously served, giving us all the freedom to fly. Review the information below to understand what each team does.Additional details:

Cybersecurity Engineering Enablement team: Partners with Technology Portfolio Teams to deliver on product capabilities for Identity Governance and Administration, Access Management, Privileged Access Management, and Directory Services. Ensures capabilities are reviewed and enabled for identity-related security patterns. This team prefers Candidates to have experience with AWS, Linux/ Windows Infrastructure, Bash scripting, BeanShell / Java, Agile/Kanban, and a security first mindset with fundamental concepts of IAM – like SSO, user life cycle management and access controls.
Cloud Security team: Protects Southwest’s cloud environment by building and continuously improving upon an innovative Cloud Security Program that supports the entire enterprise. This team prefers Candidates to have experience with Agile/Scrum and AWS resources and services, including: Identity Center (IdC), Security Lake, Security Hub, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Inspector, Detective, Lambdas, and Athena; Gitlab, Terraform; Prisma; Trivy.
(There is limited group of states or localities ineligible for Employees to regularly perform their work off-site. Those ineligible locations are Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming, and Puerto Rico) If an applicant currently resides in an ineligible state, they may relocate to an eligible state and be considered for the program.
U.S. citizenship or current authorization to work in the U.S. required and no current or future work authorization sponsorship available.

Southwest Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We continue to look for opportunities to reflect the communities we serve, and welcome applicants with diverse thoughts, backgrounds, and experiences. 

Responsibilities

Provide security guidance to application and Partner Teams to remediate security vulnerabilities, risk items, and policy exceptions
Deliver training for clients in use of the key Cybersecurity systems, and automated environments
Responsible for immediate response to production program issues
Partner with production testers to identify defects and complete testing
Test and implement system enhancements using techniques that preserve system integrity
Assist in maintaining systems and regular functionality
Triage, research potential defects, and partner to prioritize repairs. Transition features to Business support
Follow established procedures and standards to ensure high quality and quantity of work
Analyze and resolve multiple complex p