Systems Engineer, IS Advisor

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Systems Engineer, IS Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll support and enhance critical security infrastructure and identity management platforms that protect enterprise and operational technology (OT) environments. This role functions as a senior systems engineer responsible for the design, administration, hardening, maintenance, and security oversight of enterprise authentication, privileged access management, certificate services, endpoint management, and physical security systems.

The ideal candidate possesses strong expertise in Microsoft and Virtualization technologies, with a demonstrated ability to support highly available and regulated environments. Serve as the subject matter expert for enterprise security and identity management platforms, including CCURE, PKI, RSA Authentication, CyberArk, SCCM/MECM, Active Directory, and ADFS. Responsible for administering and securing authentication, authorization, privileged access, certificate management, endpoint management, and identity services across the enterprise. Manage Active Directory environments, Group Policy, federation services, and privileged accounts while implementing security hardening standards for Windows servers and workstations. Support vulnerability remediation, compliance initiatives, audit readiness activities, and incident response efforts. Collaborate with cybersecurity, infrastructure, and application teams to enhance security posture, automate operational processes, troubleshoot complex technical issues, and ensure the reliability, availability, and security of critical business systems.

As a Systems Engineer, IS 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

• Reviews system logs and real time alerts for infrastructure to identify trends, investigate abnormalities, and report exceptions to the information security program.
• Monitors the IT related accepted risks for adding, updating, and removing accepted risks based on changes in technology and vulnerabilities.
• Monitors the configuration of company-wide applications to verify they meet the standards required by the information security program.
• Updates the information security program and corresponding cybersecurity policies, procedures, and controls annually based on regulatory changes, feedback from the information security committee, and the results of audits and assessments.
• Researches, implements, and maintains an information security framework through ongoing compliance monitoring of the framework.
• Completes the preparation of risk assessments that are performed for new critical technologies, applications, or devices that are implemented, revised, and installed.
• Monitors that security risk management practices are embedded into key business processes, enables security risk reduction by working collaboratively with business partners and security programs to identify, prioritize, and mitigate security risks.
• Fulfills security goals, scenarios, and selects cases to develop acceptable parameters of security risks or guardrails. Recommends changes to processes, software, systems, and platforms based upon security risk.
• Coordinates enterprise security policies and communications, gathers business participants input, implements changes to policies, and advises the business on policy changes.
• Supports, installs and maintains security tools and systems, and tracks security patches and incidents.
• 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Seven or more years of experience in information technology, information security and/or cybersecurity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Five years of experience administering enterprise security and infrastructure technologies.
• Experience in utility, energy, critical infrastructure, or regulated industries.
• NERC CIP compliance requirements.
• Zero Trust Architecture.
• Identity Governance and Administration.
• CyberArk Defender or Sentry Certification.
• CompTIA Security+.
• Experience supporting physical access control systems such as CCURE.
• Familiarity with certificate automation and enterprise PKI deployments.

Additional Information

• This position's work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
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• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
• The primary work location for this position is Alhambra, CA. However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at alternate work locations.
• Position will require up to 10% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
• 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.
• Relocation does not apply to this position.