Prin Security Engineer

Take a Huge step in your career and join Worldwide Flight Services. WFS employs over 22,200 of the finest professionals in ground handling across a global network of more than 170 locations and 22 countries on five continents. A career with us opens up a world of opportunities to develop your existing skills, to learn new skills, and to experience working with different customers and cultures with the sole aim of always delivering a world-class service.

WFS provides a full-service capability that includes Aviation cargo, Airline passenger, and Aviation ramp services. Our team of people is highly trained, highly skilled, and confident airport service professionals who are supported by local training and development. We are passionate, capable, and always willing to explore new opportunities presented by customers all over the world.

Join our Worldwide Flight Services family and contribute to the timely delivery of cargo shipment, luggage, business to customer delivery, and on-time flights while operating safely and securely. We perform at the highest level for our customers every day, and strive to be an exceptional leader in our industry with our teams of cargo, passenger, ramp handling, and technical service experts in 227 airport locations in 27 countries on 5 continents.

Are you ready to take off on your next career with us?

This role is a hands-on Principal Security Engineering position for an experienced technical leader who combines deep engineering expertise with the ability to design, build, and scale modern cybersecurity capabilities across a global enterprise. The ideal candidate is a builder with extensive experience engineering enterprise security solutions across cloud, identity, endpoint, email, and productivity platforms, while leveraging automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, large language models (LLMs), and agentic AI to enhance threat detection, investigation, and response.

As a principal-level individual contributor, this position will lead the engineering of cloud-native security operations, detection content, security automation, data pipelines, and platform integrations that strengthen the organization's cyber defense capabilities. The role is responsible for continuously improving security engineering practices, adapting to evolving threat landscapes, and implementing resilient, production-grade solutions that reduce risk and improve operational effectiveness. Success in this position requires a highly autonomous engineer who can influence technical strategy through expertise, mentor fellow engineers, and collaborate across Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, and IT teams to translate security objectives into scalable engineering solutions.

Experience supporting complex, global environments—preferably within transportation, aviation, or other critical infrastructure industries is highly desirable.

• Serve as a principal-level technical authority for security engineering, setting the standard for detection, automation, and tooling quality across a globally distributed team
• Design, build, and maintain high-fidelity detection content, correlation logic, and analytics across enterprise security capabilities, including a major cloud and productivity ecosystem and a cloud-native security operations platform
• Engineer and operationalize security automation and orchestration that reduces manual effort and accelerates enrichment, containment, and response across the environment
• Apply artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques, including large language model and agentic approaches, to augment detection engineering, investigation, triage, and response workflows
• Integrate, tune, and scale identity, endpoint, email, and cloud security capabilities, ensuring telemetry is complete, normalized, and actionable
• Build and maintain the data pipelines, log onboarding, and platform integrations that feed centralized monitoring, detection, and response
• Drive secure-by-design engineering practices, including system hardening, secure configuration of cloud resources and API security
• Partner with threat detection and…