OT Cybersecurity Engineer

The energy industry is entering one of the most significant periods of growth and transformation in its history. Meeting the nation’s growing demand for reliable electricity will require new ideas, new infrastructure, and talented people committed to building for the future.

At Cypress Creek Energy, we’re meeting that challenge by developing and operating the energy infrastructure needed to power communities, support economic opportunity, and strengthen resilience. We believe our responsibility extends beyond the grid and that how we build matters just as much as what we build.

That same commitment extends to our employees. We invest in professional growth, encourage collaboration across teams, and provide opportunities to take ownership, expand your expertise, and advance your career. Our culture is grounded in safety, accountability, respect, and a shared commitment to deliver results. Join us and help meet one of the most important energy challenges of our time while building a rewarding career.

The energy industry is entering one of the most significant periods of growth and transformation in its history. Meeting the nation’s growing demand for reliable electricity will require new ideas, new infrastructure, and talented people committed to building for the future.

At Cypress Creek Energy, we’re meeting that challenge by developing and operating the energy infrastructure needed to power communities, support economic opportunity, and strengthen resilience. We believe our responsibility extends beyond the grid and that how we build matters just as much as what we build.

That same commitment extends to our employees. We invest in professional growth, encourage collaboration across teams, and provide opportunities to take ownership, expand your expertise, and advance your career. Our culture is grounded in safety, accountability, respect, and a shared commitment to deliver results. Join us and help meet one of the most important energy challenges of our time while building a rewarding career.

Cypress Creek is looking for an OT Cybersecurity Engineer to protect the SCADA and operational technology systems that monitor and control our generation sites. You will maintain OT systems by keeping them patched, protected from malware, monitored for intrusions, ensuring resiliency, and you will work with the SCADA team, IT, and vendors to do it without disrupting operations.

• Track vendor advisories and vulnerabilities for OT assets, including SCADA servers, HMIs, historians, RTUs/PLCs, firewalls, switches, routers, and cellular gateways.
• Test and schedule patches with vendors and site teams. Document approvals, maintenance windows, rollback plans, and exceptions.
• Run vulnerability scans, prioritize findings by risk, and track remediation to closure.
• Report on patch compliance and open vulnerabilities across sites.

• Deploy and manage antivirus and endpoint protection on OT-appropriate Windows and Linux hosts, including scan schedules and exclusions that will not disrupt control systems.
• Review detections, investigate suspicious activity, and remediate infected or at-risk systems.
• Manage removable media and transient asset controls for vendor and field laptops.

• Monitor OT network traffic with intrusion detection and monitoring tools such as Dragos, Zeek, Snort, or similar, and tune rules to reduce false positives.
• Triage and investigate alerts in the SIEM, determine scope and impact, and elevate or contain as needed.
• Maintain and test incident response plans, including tabletop exercises with IT, operations, and vendors.
• Review firewall logs, VPN…