Senior Cybersecurity Operator

Green Mountain Power is seeking an experienced information security professional/operator to help manage and develop its enterprise-wide security architecture, compliance, and security awareness initiatives. This role will act as a mentor to other team members, develop processes and runbooks, and contribute to enhancing the team's overall toolkit. This position engages in hands-on administration of firewalls, IDS, IPS, EDR, AV, and other hardware-based systems, and includes risk management, policy development, and event monitoring duties-including evangelizing and perpetuating a security-centric culture throughout the business.

The Senior Cyber Security Operator interacts frequently with a wide variety of internal and external customers, vendors, and leadership, and provides direct support and subject matter expertise to an advanced team of administrators, systems architects, and developers.

Required Skills & Experience

8-10 years of demonstrable experience managing security tasks in an enterprise-scale computing environment, including strong TCP/IP theory, firewall administration, encryption, and application security knowledge, in addition to familiarity with hacker techniques, exploits, and countermeasures is needed. Individuals possessing SANS, OSCP, ISC2 CISSP, or similar certifications is preferred. An advanced degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Forensics, or similar field, is desirable but may be substituted with relevant experience.

• Cultural Fit- We look for a positive attitude, natural aptitude, and a strong work ethic as key attributes in our candidates. We hire people who others want to be around, who learn quickly, have the ability to work through inevitable roadblocks, and possess the capacity and desire to produce great results for our customers. Self-awareness is important. It is key to understanding what is unique about you, where you will be excellent and where you will need help and support from other team members.


• Excellent spoken and written communication skills including the ability to effectively communicate with employees across the company, utilizing a variety of methods and media.


• Experience steering and coordinating multiple, ongoing initiatives while delivering high quality results.


• Ability to work independently and under pressure in a dynamic organizational structure.

Additional Responsibilities

• Serve as a mentor and analyst for enterprise incident response events, reporting all technical findings, indicators of compromise, and threat actor tactics to incident managers, staff, and security leadership.


• Monitor enterprise system security platforms to respond to security incidents and provide recommendations for improvement.


• Serve as a technician, conceiving and performing security platform testing procedures, pen tests, as well as simulations of exploitation tools and techniques.

About Green Mountain Power

Green Mountain Power serves more than 275,000 residential and business customers in Vermont with electricity that's 100% carbon free and 80% renewable on an annual basis. GMP is partnering with customers to provide solutions that deliver resiliency and affordability while cutting carbon and costs for all. GMP is the first utility in the world to get a B Corp certification, meeting rigorous social, environmental, accountability and transparency standards and committing to use business as a force for good. GMP was named to Fast Company's 2024 Most Innovative Companies in the World list, the sixth time earning that honor. In 2024, 2023 and 2021 the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) honored GMP as a nationwide leader in energy transformation. And, in 2022 GMP was named to TIME's list of the 100 Most Influential Companies for its groundbreaking resiliency work to transform the grid for customers.

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At GMP we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Women and Minorities are encouraged to apply.

Green Mountain Power is an Equal Opportunity Employer