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:

Job Summary

• Build and deliver Cybersecurity solutions that protect Southwest Airlines. Work in a focused group adhering to Agile principles. Create and refresh of solutions that happen in AWS and utilize a maturing common platform. Expect a mix of Enterprise integration and platform development.
• This Engineer will support the Cybersecurity Integration & Frameworks Team in developing applications and libraries that allow Application Teams to consume/utilize key Cybersecurity capabilities. This role works collaboratively with various Teams and plays an important part of championing their success.

Additional details

• This role allows for voluntary remote work for the majority of your working time within the Dallas-Fort Worth area, with occasional on-site presence at our Corporate Campus for training, meetings, and business needs. This role may also require limited travel for business purposes. 
• 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
• Identify Cybersecurity problems, plan solutions, recommend software and systems, and coordinate developments in an orderly manner to meet business requirements
• Oversee immediate response and maintenance 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
• Partner to maintain systems, manage escalation issues and regular functionality
• Triage, research potential defects, and complete repairs. Transition of features to Business support
• Maintain established procedures and standards to ensure high quality and quantity of work
• Partner and lead communication within internal and cross-functional teams to achieve goals
• May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of Agile best practices
• Knowledge of at least one existing element in value pipeline, such as PingFederate, eDirectory, Active Directory, CyberArk, or Micro Focus IDM
• Knowledge of at least one scripting and development language such as Python, Go, or Javascript
• Skilled in at least one 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 Unit Tests for elements
• Skilled in performance, logging and Cybersecurity monitoring tools
• Skilled in delivering valuable software and the ability to reason about it
• Skilled in excellent communication, collaboration, organization, problem solving, and prioritization skills

Education

• Required: High School Diploma or GED
• Required: Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field; or equivalent formal training

Experience

• Required: Intermediate-level experience, fully functioning broad knowledge in developing, implementing, or integrating technologies for Enterprise security

Preferred: Fully functioning, broad knowledge in:

• Experience in the airline industry
• Seasoned experience with encryption, authentication, and authorization
• Working experience of PCI (Payment Card Industry) Compliance
• Comfortability writing in multiple programming language