PG&E Corporation Hiring for Cyber Threat Specialist, Associate at Concord, CA Full Time

Job Category: Information Technology

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Information Technology

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Concord

Department Overview

Responsible for the delivery of information security services including intelligence research, threat assessment, security event monitoring/analysis, vulnerability management and security tool administration in support of PG&E’s enterprise security goals and objectives. Cyber Threat Specialists use a variety of commercial and custom tools and processes to provide the information security services mentioned above. Cyber Threat Specialists are experts in the operation of these tools and have the ability to design improvised solutions on the fly when dealing with active threats. Cyber Threat Specialists produce metrics and statistics that feed complimentary processes in PG&E such as risk assessment, patching, anti-virus, firewall management, etc. Cyber Threat Specialists are very technically skilled and have the ability to work successfully with other technical teams within PG&E’s IT department and beyond.

Position Summary

The Monitoring & Response Team (also known as M&R) is the 24×7 security operations team that is essentially PG&E’s first line of defense that is continuously preventing, detecting, analyzing, and responding to cybersecurity events to improve the organization’s security posture. The Monitoring & Response Team is built with the foundation of a standard SOC but operates differently by utilizing Threat Intelligence in our daily investigations of security events. The Monitoring & Response Team also operates in a proactive/reactive manner to maintain the highest level of efficacy in their tasks.

PG&E is providing the hourly rate range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual hourly rate paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity.

The hourly rate for this position ranges from $38.46 to $57.69.

Job Responsibilities

Monitors daily cybersecurity activity in shifts through looking at tools to determine if activity is malignant or benign and then engage others as required

Provides analysis on malware and escalates as appropriate to incident response Teams

Does baseline threat hunting based on intelligence for utility peers and other intelligence sources

Provides hunting/analysis on phishing cases and s of potential compromise/breach

Performs proficient forensic analysis using security tools and monitoring systems to discover the source of anomalous security events

Assists in performing basic research internally and externally

Performs complex system administration tasks (e.g. customization, cross-tool integration) for security tools

Develops a strategy to implement work in department

Qualifications

Minimum:
High School or GED-General Educational Development-GED Diploma

Desired:
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or job-related discipline or equivalent experience

IT-Information Technology Security certification