Cyber Security Analyst
Indianapolis, IN, United States
Wabash Valley Power Alliance
There are no shareholders or investors at NineStar. We’re a 125-year-old, not-for-profit cooperative, owned by our members. Contact us and learn more.Company Description
About Us
Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Wabash Valley Power is a not-for-profit electric cooperative and wholesale provider of reliable, affordable electricity to our 23 electric distribution member cooperatives. These cooperatives in turn serve more than 300,000 homes, businesses, and farms in Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri.
As a not-for-profit co-op, we do things a bit differently—and that’s the point. Because we aren’t influenced by shareholders, we make our decisions with our members in mind. That means we value things like teamwork, and putting families first. It also means a business model that’s designed for stability and growth. It’s a Deliberately Different approach to the energy industry, and that’s great news for the people who count on us.
What You'll Get
We believe what benefits our employees benefits our company. That’s why we put employees first—your health, your family, and your development. These aren’t just slogans: We offer continuing education, flex time, health benefits, a 401(k) match and pension plan, and much more. Here are just a few of the things that make our company culture unique:
• No Sweat - We offer a wellness program that includes a payroll credit for medical insurance, an on-site fitness center for your convenience and extra vacation days for participating. We’ll even throw in a fitness device reimbursement to keep you on track!
• Flex Time - Our flexible schedule means you can work in your appointments or family events and maintain a comfortable work-life balance.
• Stay in School - We value employees who have a desire to learn, so we provide funds for continuing education. We also offer in-house training and ongoing development through our internal GROW program.
• Keep it Casual - When you work for us, you work in comfort. Blue jeans are the norm in our office, and we make them look good!
• Work Hard, Play Hard - We reward our employees with generous vacation time, to the tune of up to five weeks off a year. Even our new employees receive credit for prior work experience.
Job Description
This position will implement and support Wabash Valley Power Association’s security policies and architecture to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all company assets under the guidance of senior Technical Service’s staff. This position contributes to protecting the Wabash Valley Power and our Member Cooperatives power grid reliability and our business operations. Success requires a desire to work with a broad range of technologies in small team to protect critical infrastructure.
Essential duties and responsibilities for this position are detailed below:
- Installing, implementing, administering, monitoring, and maintaining security architecture technology processes and solutions including security information and event management, anti-malware, intrusion detection, public key management, certificate management, physical security management, and identity & password management solutions.
- Monitor network, systems, and logs to ensure availability to all systems. Administer, manage, and use system and applications vulnerability scanning tools.
- Investigate and respond to security events and potential incidents in accordance with prescribed procedures.
- Develop risk analysis and mitigation plans
- Educate end users on security best practices
- Perform additional activities needed to demonstrate regulatory compliance with NERC CIP security standards.
- Keep abreast of the latest security issues and briefing senior Technical Services staff of emerging threats including both general threats and those specifically targeting the electric sector and industrial control systems.
Qualifications
To be successful in this position we are looking for someone with:
- A willingness to learn; Obtaining specific certifications is expected as part of career development.
- An Associate’s Degree preferably in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Security & Assurance, Information Technology, Mathematics, Physics, or related field required
- Any system, networks, or cybersecurity related certifications are a plus.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
* Salary range is an estimate based on our InfoSec / Cybersecurity Salary Index 💰
Tags: Certificate management Compliance Computer Science Industrial Intrusion detection Malware Mathematics Monitoring NERC CIP Nonprofit Physics Risk analysis
Perks/benefits: 401(k) matching Career development Fitness / gym Flex hours Flex vacation Health care Team events Wellness
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