Engineer/Senior Engineer, IT Perimeter Security (Ft Worth, TX, US)

Location: DFW Headquarters Building 8 (DFW-SV08) 
Additional Locations: Dallas/Ft Worth, TX; Phoenix, AZ
Requisition ID: 36586 

Intro

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!

Why you'll love this job

This job is a member of the Information Technology Team, within the Information Technology Division. The Internet Security Infrastructure Engineering team is a highly skilled team of engineers that are experts at managing and integrating various third party Security and Networking platforms into the environment.  This team, in collaboration with other teams and business stakeholders, is at the forefront of providing the security tools which enhance our security operations center, corporate security, applications and ensure world class set of managed offerings for our customers.  Our managed platforms include, but are not limited to, technologies from vendors such as Proxy, SIEM, and Desktop OS.

As the subject matter expert, this position plays a critical role, and will be accountable for the success of their platforms.  This team is responsible for the design, implementation, and end user support of the product.

This will need to be achieved through ongoing planning, coordination and alignment, both internally within the team, and also with partner teams such as Project Management, Software Engineering, Customer Implementation Services and Support Engineering.

What you'll do

• Collaborates with leaders, business analysts, project managers, IT architects, technical leads and other developers, along with internal customers, to understand requirements and develop needs according to business requirements
• Monitors performance and capability of systems and provides recommendations based on the current threat landscape
• Maintains centrally managed consoles and critical infrastructure that enables our teams to manage third party security technologies
• Develops and maintains automating day to day tasks with enterprise infrastructure like on premise proxy infrastructure
• Collaborates with Product Management in order to align with established roadmaps
• Collaborates with internal teams, such as Customer Implementation Services, Support Engineering, Software Engineering, IT Operations, Finance, and Procurement, to ensure efficient service delivery
• Fosters and cultivates vendor relationships and grasps vendor roadmaps and release schedules
• Works in and actively supports an Agile environment
• Researches, evaluates, and implements new technologies and product lines, in order to enhance current processes, security, and performance
• Provides innovative solutions to continue the enhancement and proficiency of our systems
• Participates in an on-call rotation for any escalations outside business hours, and top tier escalation support for Operations based teams

• Experience in automating day to day tasks with enterprise infrastructure like on-premise proxy infrastructure

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• 3 years of technology experience, with a focus on information security technology development, support and administration

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• 5+ years of technology experience, with a focus on information security technology development, support and administration

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Strong technical background in Proxy, CASB, and other Internet protection suites
• Solid comprehension of packet analysis and demonstrated ability troubleshooting incidents using security tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump, and SIEM (log analysis)
• Strong technical background in authentication, syslog, network troubleshooting, application log troubleshooting, SIEM and security architecture
• Extensive experience with routing protocols and routing concepts
• Experience building and administering UNIX/Linux based security appliances and/or servers
• Knowledge of the Unix/Linux CLI system tools and applications
• Solid comprehension of packet analysis and demonstrated ability troubleshooting incidents using security tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump, and SIEM (log analysis)
• Working understanding of Active Directory structure (e.g. GPOs)
• Working understanding of Agile Framework
• Working understanding of PCI, PII compliance
• CISSP, CISM, CISA, GIAC or other security certifications are highly desired
• Working understanding of TCP/IP protocol suite, including subnetting and network address translation
• Familiarity with certificate verification techniques, along with an understanding of the certificate validation process and experience troubleshooting certificate issues
• Knowledge and experience in Devops/DevSecOps techniques like CI/CD
• Experience building and administering infrastructure with tools such as (Jenkins, puppet, Ansible, Chef and source control tools like GitHub/GIT
• Extensive experience automation scripting, preferably for network infrastructure systems
• Technical experience in scripting languages (Python, Powershell or Javascript)

What you'll get

Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer: 

• Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
• Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more. 
• Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
• 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
• Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more

Feel Free to be yourself at American

From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Employee Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.

Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.

Additional Locations: Dallas/Ft Worth, TX; Phoenix, AZ
Requisition ID: 36586 

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