Edison International

Cybersecurity Risk Specialist

Posted on: 19 Feb 2021

Rosemead, CA

Job Description

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Cybersecurity Risk Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, youll perform complex cyber technical analysis for new and existing technologies, vendors, and hardware to identify and mitigate cybersecurity risk to SCE systems. Utilize cutting edge cyber technology in making secure design recommendations and identifying threats, and vulnerabilities with technology implementations, and current production systems. Collaborate with other cybersecurity teams such as cyber incident response, tools and technologies, and engineering to help make risk-based decisions to mitigate cybersecurity risk across SCE. Collaborate with other team members on current vulnerabilities, and threat actors tactics, techniques, and procedures. Participation in cyber risk hunting activities will allow proactive identification of existing risks.

As a Cybersecurity Risk Specialist, 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?

A day in the life - Get ready to think big, work smart and shine bright!

* Conduct cybersecurity risk assessments on vendors to identify security deficiencies of the vendors security posture utilizing passive traffic analysis techniques with commercially available technology and open source tools.
* Utilize Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) platforms and threat intelligence software to understand potential threat of breach to vendor and historical security incidents to communicate basic recommendations of compensating controls. Determines deviations from standards, policies, or contractual terms and conditions.
* Apply specialized cybersecurity expertise and industry best practice methodology to determine the impact of a realized incident to the organizations data/infrastructure of the identified vulnerabilities and develops and/or recommends appropriate mitigation countermeasures to remediate or mitigate risk to the organization.
* Conduct cybersecurity penetration testing to perform complex technical analysis on vendors software and hardware by configuring commercially available and open source technology to identify insecure configuration settings and software vulnerabilities to recommend the most efficient implementation techniques and tools for solutions to address system deficiencies or consider alternative system planning and design.
* Review Third Party Audit Documentation, Penetration Testing Reports, and Security Certifications for Equipment and Secure Code Design to understand and communicate potential risk to the organization. Determines deviations from standards, policies, or contractual terms.

Qualifications
The essentials

* Three (3) years of Cybersecurity experience.

The preferred

* Bachelors degree.
* CEH, OSCP, GSEC, OWASP, CISSP.
* Experience with risk assessments and/or penetration testing using open source or commercially available technology.

You should know

* Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, and hiring process, and more!
* Relocation does not apply to this position.
* This position has been identified as a NERC/CIP impacted position - Prior to being hired, the successful candidate must pass a Personnel Risk Assessment (PRA) or Background Investigation. Once hired, the candidate must complete specified training prior to gaining un-escorted access to assigned work location and performing necessary job duties.
* US citizenship is required as part of Critical Infrastructure.
* There will be two (2) openings for this posting.

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. Were fueling the kind of innovation thats changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, youll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

At SCE, we celebrate our differences. We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected status.

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at (833) 343-0727. L1-WT1

Edison International

Rosemead, CA

Edison International is a public utility holding company based in Rosemead, California. Its subsidiaries include Southern California Edison, and unregulated non-utility business assets Edison Energy. Edison's roots trace back to Holt & Knupps, a company founded in 1886 as a provider of street lights in Visalia, California. At Edison International, our vision is to lead the transformation of the electric power industry toward a clean energy future. Through our subsidiaries, we generate and distribute electric power, as well as provide energy services and technologies, including renewable energy.

With 130+ years of innovation in our history, our company is well-positioned and prepared for the work that lies ahead as we focus on opportunities in clean energy, efficient electrification, the grid of the future, and customer choice to strengthen and grow our businessOur subsidiary, Southern California Edison, is one of the largest electric utilities in the United States and a longtime leader in renewable energy and energy efficiency. With headquarters in Rosemead, Calif., SCE serves approximately 15 million people in a 50,000 square-mile area of central, coastal and Southern California. SCE has provided electric service in the region for more than 130 years.  

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