Sr Cybersecurity Engineer

Southwest Airlines
401(k), remote work
United States, Texas, Dallas
Jul 18, 2025
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: In this Sr Cybersecurity Engineer role, you'll provide expert security guidance to application and partner Teams, helping them remediate vulnerabilities, manage risk, and navigate policy exceptions. You'll deliver hands-on training in key cybersecurity systems and automated environments, while also identifying and engineering solutions to complex security challenges. As part of the Team responsible for baseline cloud security, you'll build secure infrastructure components, enhance Developer experience, and instrument visibility across over one million cloud resources. Your work will support accelerated delivery through secure CI/CD pipelines, enterprise integration, and platform development in AWS-all within a collaborative Agile environment. If you're passionate about automation, cloud security, and enabling secure innovation at scale, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact. 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. 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 environmental variables Knowledge of at least one or more existing elements in value pipeline, such as PingFederate, eDirectory, Active Directory, CyberArk, or Micro Focus IDM Skilled in at least one or more scripting and development language such as Python, Go, or Javascript Skilled in excellent communication, collaboration, organization, problem solving, and prioritization skills Education Required: High School Diploma or GED Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information systems or similar fields of study or equivalent advanced level experience Experience Required: Advanced-level experience, seasoned and specialized knowledge in developing, implementing, or integrating technologies for Enterprise security Licensing/Certification N/A Physical Abilities Ability to perform work duties from [limited space work station/desk/office area] for extended periods of time Ability to communicate and interact with others in the English language to meet the demands of the job Ability to use a computer and other office productivity tools with sufficient speed and accuracy to meet the demands of the job Other Qualifications Must maintain a well-groomed appearance per Company appearance standards as described in established guidelines Must be a U.S. citizen or have authorization to work in the United States as defined by the Immigration Reform Act of 1986 Must be at least 18 years of age Must be able to comply with Company attendance standards as described in established guidelines Must be able to travel and /or attend Company and non-Company facilities and remote locations such as remote-based offices as necessary Pay & Benefits Competitive market salary from $141,000 per year to $157,100 per year* depending on qualifications and experience. For eligible Leadership and individual contributor roles, additional bonus opportunities are available and awarded at the discretion of the company. Benefits you'll love: Fly for free, as a privilege, on any open seat on all Southwest flights (your eligible dependents too) Southwest will help fund your 401(k) retirement savings with Company contributions up to 9.3% of your eligible earnings Potential for annual ProfitSharing contribution in the Southwest Retirement Savings Plan- when Southwest profits, you profit* Competitive health insurance for you and your eligible dependents (including pets) Southwest offers health plan coverage options that start from the very first day of employment. You will have 30 days to select and enroll in your health plan with coverage retroactively available to your first day of employment. Explore more Benefits you'll love: https://careers.southwestair.com/benefits Pay amount does not guarantee employment for any particular period of time. 401(k) match contributions are subject to Retirement Savings Plan vesting schedule and applicable IRS limits ProfitSharing contributions are subject to Retirement Savings Plan vesting schedule and are made at the discretion of the Company. Southwest Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer.** Please print/save this job description because it won't be available after you apply.