Sr Cybersecurity Engineer

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:

As a Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer on our Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) Team, you’ll lead the design and delivery of modern identity lifecycle and access governance solutions that ensure the right people have the right access at the right time. Leveraging your deep expertise in SailPoint Identity Security Cloud (ISC), AWS Identity Center, and scripting languages like Java and BeanShell, you’ll drive automation, streamline access certifications, and guide the migration from legacy platforms to a scalable SaaS-based governance model. Your technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration will help secure our enterprise while enabling innovation and agility—playing a key role in protecting the heart of Southwest Airlines: our People and our Purpose.

Additional details

• This role is offered as a remote workplace position, which may require travel for training, meetings, conferences, etc. Outside of those required visits, the majority of your working time may be spent in a remote location, away from our Corporate Campus. Please note, while this is a remote position, there is a limited group of states or localities ineligible for Employees to regularly perform their work. 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, Wyoming, and Puerto Rico.  

• U.S. citizenship or current authorization to work in the U.S. required and no current or future work authorization sponsorship available.

We’re committed to fair hiring practices and to making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other legally protected characteristics.

 

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
• Identify Cybersecurity problems, plan solutions, recommend software and systems, and coordinate developments in an orderly manner to meet business requirements
• Act as an agent for change to reflect the latest Cybersecurity standards and practices
• Serve as an enterprise subject matter expert (SME) and advocate of IT Security standards and reference architectures
• Act as a Mentor to both Co-Hearts in Cybersecurity and Partner Teams
• Remain abreast of industry trends and develop business cases for changes
• Lead team to find best solution and offering thought leadership while ideating and challenging group think
• Oversee immediate response and maintenance to production program issues
• Partner with production testers to identify defects and complete testing
• May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Skilled in Agile best practices and continuous improvement
• Skilled in at least one or more cloud computing technology and its concepts such as AWS
• Skilled in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) development (Terraform, CloudFormation or similar) and automated configuration management using configuration-as-code (CaC) development (Chef, Puppet, Ansible or similar)
• Skilled in implementing Cybersecurity specific Integration Tests providing Identity, Security Policy, and Cryptography
• Skilled in at least one or more performance, logging and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, ELK Stack, AppD and their integration into platform tools such as AWS CloudWatch
• Skilled in at least one or more credential management tools and solutions like AWS Secrets Manager, CyberArk or Hashicorp Vault
• Skilled in creating parameterized build jobs for Continuous Integration of Security and environmenta