Exposure Management Analyst

Position Overview

Southern Company is seeking a passionate and experienced Exposure Management Analyst to join our Cybersecurity organization. This is a technical, hands-on role that requires the ability to assess exposures, analyze risks, and advise strategies to mitigate exposure.

Job Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day operations of the exposure management program, including data review, report processing, and trend analysis.
• Track remediation of identified risks and mitigation strategies and escalate findings to key stakeholders.
• Ability to analyze potential security risks and determine applicability to our environment.
• Execute emergency vulnerability workflows and procedures.
• Stay informed about publicly disclosed vulnerabilities (CVEs) and potential vulnerabilities (rumors, blogs, partial public analysis).
• Map vulnerability assessment results to asset inventory and key stakeholders.
• Calculate prioritization based on risk assessment.
• Identify and recommend appropriate compensating controls to manage and remediate vulnerability risk with the focus on reducing potential impacts.
• Support development of vulnerability metrics and remediation-related dashboards and reports.
• Understand enterprise policies and advise policies and technical standards with specific regard to vulnerability management, scanning procedures and secure configuration.
• Collaborate with key business partners to understand, prioritize, and coordinate vulnerability remediation activities.
• Understand business requirements and work with business partners to define appropriate solutions, meeting both security mandates and business needs.
• Demonstrate strong critical thinking and curiosity, essential for effectively analyzing and addressing security threats and vulnerabilities.
• Demonstrate Southern Company values of Safety First, Unquestionable Trust, Superior Performance, and Total Commitment.

Job Requirements

• Required to submit to a thorough background examination.
• Ability to understand business requirements and present appropriate solutions.
• Ability to work independently or within a team.
• Effective organizational skills, managing multiple priorities/details, meeting schedules, and delivering on commitments.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated critical, independent thinking; demonstrated ability to conceive and present creative solutions.
• Must pass NERC CIP & Insider Threat Protection background checks.
• One or more relevant industry certifications (i.e., GSEC, CISSP, CISA).
• Minimum 5 years IT or security experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in supporting vulnerability and patch management programs, enhancing application security, and conducting thorough analyses of potential exposures.
• Experience working with vulnerability scanning, attack surface management, and cloud security posture management tools.
• Understanding of OWASP common vulnerabilities and testing methodologies.
• Understanding and familiarity with different operating systems (e.g., Windows and LINUX/UNIX systems).
• Knowledge of IT security / hardening best practices; including but not limited to operating systems, web applications, and network devices.
• Experience building interactive dashboards and reports in PowerBI to visualize security metrics and exposure management data, including remediation progress, risk exposure, etc.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, including advanced functions such as PivotTables, VLOOKUP, and data analysis tools to organize, summarize, and interpret complex datasets.
• Experience using a SIEM to run search queries, perform log analysis, and build dashboards to monitor potential exposures.
• Experience driving discussions and consensus across a broad group of stakeholders and cross-functional teams regarding patching, security recommendations, and mitigations strategies.
• Proven experience interacting with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• This position falls under the company’s Insider Threat Program and will have access to, and control over sensitive data, systems or assets.
• Enhanced personnel screening, which includes a background review, drug screen and psychological assessment, will be required if you are selected for this position.

About Southern Company

Southern Company (NYSE: SO ) is a leading energy provider serving 9 million customers across the Southeast and beyond through its family of companies. Providing clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy with excellent service is our mission. The company has electric operating companies in three states, natural gas distribution companies in four states, a competitive generation company, a leading distributed energy solutions provider with national capabilities, a fiber optics network and telecommunications services. Through an industry-leading commitment to innovation, resilience and sustainability, we are taking action to meet customers' and communities' needs while advancing our goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Our uncompromising values ensure we put the needs of those we serve at the center of everything we do and are the key to our sustained success. We are transforming energy into economic, environmental and social progress for tomorrow. Our corporate culture has been recognized by a variety of organizations, earning the company awards and recognitions that reflect Our Values and dedication to service. To learn more, visit www.southerncompany.com.

Job Identification

20501

Job Category

Cybersecurity

Job Schedule

Full time