IT Advisor bei Calpine Corporation

Calpine Corporation is America's largest generator of electricity from natural gas and geothermal resources with operations in competitive power markets. Its fleet of 77 power plants in operation represents over 27,000 megawatts of generation capacity. Through wholesale power operations and its retail businesses, Calpine serves customers in 22 states and Canada. Its clean, efficient, modern and flexible fleet uses advanced technologies to generate power in a low-carbon and environmentally responsible manner.

The company was established on the premise that a strong commitment to the environment is inextricably linked to excellence in power generation and corporate responsibility. Since its founding in 1984, Calpine has led the power industry in its unwavering commitment to environmental stewardship. In addition, its renewable geothermal plants use steam generated deep below the earth's surface to produce clean, renewable electricity.

Job Summary (includes but is not limited to the following, other duties may be assigned)

The IT Advisor is responsible for supporting cybersecurity operations, regulatory compliance, and infrastructure initiatives across both IT and OT environments. This includes managing Splunk deployments and logging infrastructure across plant sites, overseeing the CrowdStrike Falcon console for policy tuning, alert triage, and endpoint visibility, and assisting in incident response planning and remediation through SOP development. The role also involves tuning Fortinet alerts to improve visibility for legacy systems, communicating technical updates and guidance through email and Teams collaboration, and working cross-functionally to ensure secure and compliant operations across the enterprise. Daily participation in cyber risk and threat intelligence briefings with the CSOC team and support for governance efforts such as NERC CIP and TSA IT GRC are also key responsibilities.

In addition to these core duties, the IT Advisor works across all 14 cybersecurity technical disciplines and provides leadership and guidance to the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Security Operations Center. This requires a broad understanding of security tools and frameworks, strong communication skills, and the ability to coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to maintain a robust and resilient cybersecurity posture.

May require a bachelor's degree in area of specialty and 6-8 years of experience in the specialized field with additional experience in other IT areas.  Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of complex tasks. May lead and direct the work of others. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. Typically reports to a manager.

Job Responsibilities

• In-depth or broad, extensive knowledge.
• Highly skilled professional with wide-ranging, advanced technical experience to resolve complex issues.
• Competent to work at very high level in multiple knowledge areas or functions as an advanced contributor.
• Makes decisions on complex issues regarding project components and advanced tasks.
• Leads the researches for innovations from external sources, and identifies opportunities to develop new processes, tools, services and techniques within the function.
• Works on complex issues and projects.
• Uses independent judgment requiring in-depth evaluation of variable factors. Independently selects methods, techniques, analytical approach and evaluation criteria.
• Determines methods and procedures for new assignments.
• Serves as project/technical lead on medium to large projects; regularly coordinates work of professionals, technicians and others outside of own department.
• Trains and mentors employees on technical skills.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.
• In-depth experience across knowledge areas and multiple functions including project management; typically requires 10+ years in area of specialization.

Additional Calpine Information:

• Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.
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