Cybersecurity Senior Specialist - Threat Hunter

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Cybersecurity Senior Specialist – Threat Hunter
at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll:

• Proactive Threat Hunting Operations: Conduct hypothesis-driven hunting activities across enterprise and operational technology (OT) environments to identify malicious activity, advanced adversary behaviors, and previously undetected security threats before they impact business operations.
• Threat Intelligence-Driven Analysis: Leverage cyber threat intelligence, industry reporting, and emerging attacker tradecraft to develop targeted hunts focused on relevant tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) that pose risk to SCE's environment.
• Detection Gap Identification & Improvement: Analyze security telemetry across endpoints, networks, cloud services, identities, and OT systems to uncover visibility gaps, improve monitoring coverage, and enhance detection effectiveness.
• Advanced Investigation & Incident Discovery: Perform deep-dive investigations into suspicious events, anomalous behavior, and complex attack patterns, correlating data from multiple sources to identify indicators of compromise and adversary activity.
• Threat-Informed Detection Development: Partner with Detection Engineering, Incident Response, and SOC teams to translate hunting findings into actionable detections, analytics, and automated monitoring capabilities that strengthen organizational defenses.
• Adversary Tradecraft Research & Validation: Research evolving threats, malware, attack frameworks, and intrusion techniques to validate security controls and ensure defensive capabilities remain aligned with the current threat landscape.
• Cross-Functional Security
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Collaborate with Red Team, Blue Team, Cyber Defense, and business stakeholders to drive remediation efforts, enhance cyber resilience, and continuously improve security operations maturity.
• Strategic Reporting & Communication: Deliver concise, data-driven reporting that communicates hunting outcomes, emerging risks, and security recommendations to technical teams and leadership, enabling informed decision-making and risk reduction.

Asa Cybersecurity Senior 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?

• Performs security risk, vulnerability assessments, and business impact analysis for medium complexity information systems.
• Carries out project reporting for assigned projects, monitoring project status, timeline and budgets. Assists in the planning and implementation of current and future security domains including those which may introduce new service areas.
• Adopts and follows 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.
• Monitors technology risk, identifies root cause or key themes, recommends for resolution. Investigates suspected attacks and manages security incidents. Uses forensics where appropriate. Reviews and shapes the production of evidence to support internal and external audits.
• Implements appropriate security measures for information systems and applications that control access to data, and prevents unauthorized modification, destruction, or disclosure of information.
• Develops and maintains metrics, alerts, dashboards, and reports for security monitoring.
• Maintains incident response plans and performs incident response activities as directed and in accordance with established procedures and guidelines and those of federal authorities.
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating as a Threat Hunter, Incident Responder, Detection Engineer, or Cyber Defense professional within complex enterprise environments, with demonstrated ability to collaborate across Cybersecurity, IT, Cloud, and OT organizations.
• Experience conducting hypothesis-driven threat hunting activities utilizing threat intelligence, behavioral analytics, and attacker TTPs to proactively identify malicious activity and previously unknown threats.
• Strong understanding of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures as defined by frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, with experience mapping observed activity to threat actor behaviors and intrusion methodologies.
• Experience analyzing and correlating security telemetry from multiple…