Senior Cyber Security Specialist, Threat Hunt

Southern California Edison • Rosemead, CA

98d • Hybrid

About The Position

Join the Clean Energy Revolution Become a Senior Cyber Security Specialist, Threat Hunt at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll be a part of the Cyber Threat Hunt and Intelligence team, a sub-team under SCE's broader Cybersecurity Operations Center (CSOC) - the team is responsible for keeping SCE's network and grid secure from emerging threats and cyber actors. As a Senior Cyber Security Specialist, Threat Hunt, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future? In this role as Senior Specialist for the Cyber Threat Hunt and Intelligence Team, you will be primarily responsible for not only conducting continuous research on emerging threats and threat actor activity but also actioning that intelligence through proactive and innovate threat hunts using SIEM, EDR, and other technology. We are looking for a Senior Cyber Specialist with a technical and analytical background that can leverage their solid understanding of networks, network architectures, and adversarial tradecraft to enable proactive and innovative approaches to their cybersecurity threat hunting work across the SCE environment, with a specific focus on Operational Technology (OT).

Requirements

• Five or more years of experience in information technology, information security and/or cybersecurity.
• US Citizenship Required.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in specialized field or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Two or more years of experience threat hunting.
• Experience supporting cyber defense analysis of Operational Technology (OT) Networks to include Integrated Controls Systems (ICS), SCADA, and Process Control Networks (PCN).
• Two or more years of experience working in Security Operations Centers.
• Two or more years of experience working with Incident Response and Cyber Threat Intelligence functions.
• Security +, CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, GMON, GICSP, GRID, etc.

Responsibilities

• Leverage technical expertise and adversarial knowledge to hunt across the SCE Admin, cloud, and OT environment.
• Aid in the development and maturation of the OT hunt program.
• Break down and leverage technical intelligence reports and analyze Tactics Techniques and Procedures utilized by cyber adversaries and proactively hunt for those across the SCE environment.
• Use understanding of Vulnerability Exploitation to Hunt for Evidence of exploitation of emerging vulnerabilities.
• Proactively identify and document logging gaps, architectural gaps, visibility gaps, misconfigurations and control gaps, and other observations to aid in the maturation SCE's cyber posture.
• Articulate hunt findings and advise on remediation methods.
• Aid in coordinating execution of these remediations.
• Work with Threat Hunt Team lead to identify capability and process improvements for threat hunting program.
• Assist in the development of relevant detections to identify current and future malicious/suspicious activity.
• Perform security risk, vulnerability assessments, and business impact analysis for medium complexity information systems.
• Carry out project reporting for assigned projects, monitoring project status, timeline and budgets.
• Assist in the planning and implementation of current and future security domains including those which may introduce new service areas.
• Adopt and follow security controls, processes, and procedures to manage risk across all information system environments (infrastructure, network, and applications) with the assistance of the application and infrastructure management teams.
• Monitor technology risk, identify root cause or key themes, recommend for resolution.
• Investigate suspected attacks and manage security incidents. Use forensics where appropriate.
• Review and shape the production of evidence to support internal and external audits.
• Implement appropriate security measures for information systems and applications that control access to data, and prevent unauthorized modification, destruction, or disclosure of information.
• Develop and maintain metrics, alerts, dashboards, and reports for security monitoring.
• Maintain incident response plans and perform incident response activities as directed and in accordance with established procedures and guidelines and those of federal authorities.

Benefits

• Hybrid work mode with the option to work remotely on certain days.
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth.
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Utilities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree