Cybersecurity Senior Advisor - Red Team Lead

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Cybersecurity Senior Advisor - Red Team Lead at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow.

In this job, you’ll:

• Adversary Emulation Operations: Plan, scope, and execute full-lifecycle Red Team engagements, simulating advanced threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) across enterprise and OT environments.
• Threat-Informed Attack Simulation: Leverage intelligence on emerging threats and adversary behaviors to design realistic attack scenarios that validate detection, response, and resilience capabilities.
• Environment & Attack Surface Analysis: Identify and exploit weaknesses across network architectures, identity systems, and external-facing infrastructure, while highlighting visibility gaps, logging deficiencies, and control weaknesses.
• Detection Validation & Enhancement: Partner with Threat Hunting, Detection Engineering, and SOC teams to validate existing detections, uncover detection gaps, and drive improvements in monitoring and response capabilities.
• Advanced Tooling & Evasion Techniques: Develop, modify, and employ advanced offensive tooling and techniques to emulate sophisticated adversaries, including evasion of modern security controls (e.g., EDR/XDR).
• Strategic Reporting & Communication: Deliver high-impact reporting that clearly articulates attack paths, root cause issues, and business risk implications, while providing actionable, prioritized remediation guidance to both technical teams and senior leadership.
• Program Innovation & Maturity: Partner with Red Team leadership to evolve the program through improved methodologies, automation, and integration with purple team initiatives, ensuring scalability and long-term effectiveness.

As a Cybersecurity Senior Advisor - Red Team Lead, 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?

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating as a senior Red Team leader or principal operator within complex enterprise environments, with demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders across Cybersecurity, IT, and OT organizations
• Experience conducting full-lifecycle Red Team operations, including reconnaissance, initial access, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and data exfiltration using advanced threat actor TTPs.
• Experience or familiarity with Red Team operations in OT/ICS environments, including understanding of safety and reliability constraints.
• Demonstrated capability in developing or modifying custom tools, leveraging scripting/programming (e.g., PowerShell, C#, Go), and implementing advanced evasion techniques.
• Experience leveraging automation, scripting, and emerging technologies (including AI/ML) to scale Red Team operations and improve efficiency.
• Highly regarded credentials such as OSCE3 (OSEP, OSWE, OSED), CRTO, CRTE, or OT-specific certifications (e.g., SANS GRID, GCIP).
• Five or more years in offensive security, red teaming, penetration testing, and vulnerability research.

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.
• Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
• 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 Rosemead, CA.  
• 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 may apply to this position.

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.