Senior Cybersecurity Advisor - IT​/OT Risk & Hardening Hybrid

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

BecomeaCybersecurity Senior Advisorat Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this role, you’ll be part of SCE’s Cybersecurity Exposure Team, leading deep, hands-on risk assessments across enterprise technology and critical operational environments (IT/OT). You’ll identify priority systems and threat scenarios, validate control effectiveness, and translate findings into practical risk treatment plans with clear owners and measurable outcomes. Exposure Team members collaborate with internal teams and trusted third parties to drive remediation through to closure and ensure risk is continuously managed.

Additionally, you’ll:

• Partner with infrastructure teams to perform threat modeling and attack-path analysis, then recommends concrete platform and network changes (segmentation, identity controls, hardening, logging) that close gaps and reduce exposure.
• Lead deep-dive cybersecurity assessments with IT and Quality partners: validates controls, performs vulnerability discovery and prioritization, reviews configuration baselines, and drives risk treatment plans; supports investigations and root-cause analysis for security incidents and policy violations.
• Drive delivery of complex security initiatives from design through rollout, defining success metrics, managing technical risks and dependencies, and coordinating internal teams and vendors to deliver on time.
• Define and maintain secure-by-default baselines across on-prem and cloud environments, implementing hardening standards, access controls, key/secret handling, and automated guardrails to support repeatable secure build and deployment practices.
• Create and maintain hardened system profiles and compliance mappings, tracking posture, drift, and remediation progress across enterprise platforms.
• Establish repeatable assessment, evidence, and exception-handling methods aligned to information security standards and regulatory requirements, ensuring findings translate into actionable remediation backlogs with clear owners and timelines.

AsaCybersecurity Senior Advisor, 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?

Responsibilities

• Leads cyber security project delivery by ensuring the cyber security team delivers on success criteria, addresses project issues and risks, and builds commitment with delivery team and internal or external partners.
• Designs, implements and maintains a secure posture and baseline across all components of the organization on-premises and cloud IT environments, employing recognized security engineering practices and supporting secure build processes.
• Develops, maintains, and delivers secure system profiles, and maintains an overall view of compliance.
• Collaborates with the IT and Quality teams to assess, remediate, and prevent information technology risks. Drives system auditing, vulnerability risk assessments, assured file transfers, hardware and software configuration management, data integrity containments and investigations on internal affairs related security violations and incidents.
• Ensures that new and existing security applications and systems are successfully integrated during implementations, updates, and patching to maintain or increase our ability to detect and prevent security exploits.
• Collaborates with external managed security solution provider and analysts to enhance security solutions to reduce malicious and suspicious activity based on security data analysis, review of the current threat landscape, and assessment of security tickets.
• Works with the infrastructure team and security architect to analyze security threats and recommend technical infrastructure and architecture changes to address gaps and reduce risk.
• Shapes procedures and methods for auditing and addressing risk and non-compliance to information security standards.
• Fosters strong relationships with senior leaders and stakeholders to understand and map out business priorities and how security engagement can be effectively managed to deliver secure design solutions.
• A material job duty of…