This role is at Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, supporting Spirit's Commercial Business Units ("Spirit Commercial"). Spirit Commercial designs and builds commercial aerostructures, including for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, one of Boeing's three business units and the premier manufacturer of commercial jetliners for decades. Spirit Commercial's core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components, with a focus on innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions.
The Security Platform Engineer III is responsible for the implementation, maintenance, optimization, and maturation of enterprise SIEM, SOAR, and Identity Detection and Response capabilities. This role ensures that security technologies supporting monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, detection engineering, automation, identity threat visibility, case management, reporting, and compliance are reliable, integrated, scalable, and aligned with program needs.
This role is focused on platform strategy, technical enablement, data quality, integrations, automation, workflow improvement, operational readiness, and long-term maturity. The engineer enables analysts, responders, and threat hunters by improving security visibility, alert fidelity, response consistency, investigation speed, and technology-driven risk reduction through effective use of security detection and response platforms.
Position Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, maintain, and optimize enterprise SIEM, SOAR, and Identity Detection and Response capabilities.
- Support platform upgrades, configuration changes, integrations, capability rollouts, application updates, content updates, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support audit and compliance activities by ensuring required logs, reports, evidence, access records, and operational documentation are accurate and available.
- Create technical documentation, architecture diagrams, workflow diagrams, operating procedures, readiness reports, metrics, and leadership summaries.
- Mentor junior engineers or analysts on security detection platform capabilities, data usage, query practices, automation workflows, identity detection concepts, and security operations enablement.
Basic Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years of relevant cybersecurity, security engineering, security operations, incident response, detection engineering, automation, identity security, infrastructure, platform administration, or related experience.
- Advanced cybersecurity, security engineering, security operations, automation, identity security, cloud, infrastructure, or platform certification. Degree may qualify in lieu of certification.
- Hands-on experience administering, engineering, or supporting enterprise security monitoring, automation, detection, or response platforms.
- Strong understanding of SIEM, SOAR, and Identity Detection and Response concepts, including data ingestion, normalization, enrichment, alerting, workflows, case management, automation, identity context, and reporting.
- Strong documentation, troubleshooting, communication, stakeholder management, and technical coordination skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, information technology, computer science, engineering, or related field required.
- Experience with enterprise SIEM, SOAR, User and Entity Behavior Analytics, security analytics, identity threat detection, or related security operations platforms.
- Experience with SOAR playbook development, integrations, custom functions, enrichment workflows, case management, response automation, and approval workflows.
- Familiarity with NIST guidelines, CIS Controls, ISO 27002, CMMC, FedRAMP, and/or other security and compliance frameworks.
- Experience with scripting, automation, APIs, data pipelines, search or query languages, detection support, advanced analytics, dashboards, and reporting.
Drug Free Workplace:
We are a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria are met as outlined in our policies.
Pay & Benefits:
We strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
We also provide eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.
The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
Summary Pay Range: $107,050 - $164,150
Kansas Tax Credit: Join Spirit AeroSystems' Kansas team and you may be eligible for a $5,000 state of Kansas Aviation tax credit for up to five years. Click here for more information on the tax credit.
Export Control Requirements:
Export Control Requirements: This position must meet export control compliance requirements. To meet export control compliance requirements, a "U.S. Person" as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.15 is required. "U.S. Person" includes U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Skills Required
- Minimum 5 years of relevant cybersecurity, security engineering, security operations, incident response, detection engineering, automation, identity security, infrastructure, platform administration, or related experience.
- Advanced cybersecurity, security engineering, security operations, automation, identity security, cloud, infrastructure, or platform certification; a degree may qualify in lieu of certification.
- Hands-on experience administering, engineering, or supporting enterprise security monitoring, automation, detection, or response platforms.
- Strong understanding of SIEM, SOAR, and Identity Detection and Response concepts, including data ingestion, normalization, enrichment, alerting, workflows, case management, automation, identity context, and reporting.
- Strong documentation, troubleshooting, communication, stakeholder management, and technical coordination skills.
- Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- Experience with enterprise SIEM, SOAR, User and Entity Behavior Analytics, security analytics, identity threat detection, or related security operations platforms.
- Experience with SOAR playbook development, integrations, custom functions, enrichment workflows, case management, response automation, and approval workflows.
- Familiarity with NIST guidelines, CIS Controls, ISO 27002, CMMC, FedRAMP, or other security and compliance frameworks.
- Experience with scripting, automation, APIs, data pipelines, search or query languages, detection support, advanced analytics, dashboards, and reporting.
- Must meet export control requirements as a U.S. Person under 22 C.F.R. §120.15.
Boeing Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) program is described as highly competitive, with immediate eligibility for many roles and a student‑loan match feature that counts qualified payments toward the company match. Plan documents and recent amendments signal active maintenance and reliability of the program.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision options are complemented by specialty offerings like AccessHope cancer support, Hinge Health for musculoskeletal care, and on‑demand virtual primary care for those enrolled in Boeing plans. Mental health access via Spring Health includes no‑cost counseling and coaching sessions with first‑day eligibility for many benefits.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of up to 12 weeks at full pay, adoption assistance, surrogacy support, and backup child and elder care underscore a robust family‑oriented design. Policies indicate many benefits start quickly after hire, improving practical access for new parents.
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