Senior Analyst, OT Security
Fervo EnergyHouston, TX
Full Time
Posted October 16, 2026
$123k - $175k· Est.
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- Freshness
- Open in the current public read path; this is not an employer guarantee.Last observed October 17, 2026
- Classification
- Modern power-system classification not yet published for this listing.Legacy source industry field: Energy Management
- Pay provenance
- Estimated benchmark; not employer-provided
Job Description
The Senior OT Security Analyst is a hands-on cybersecurity professional responsible for strengthening the security and resilience of Fervo’s operational technology environments.
Key Responsibilities
- OT Program Governance and Risk
- Translate program objectives into execution. Develop and maintain practical OT security standards, procedures, control requirements, checklists, and review cadences that can be used by site, engineering, project, and vendor teams.
- Maintain the OT risk lifecycle. Document risk scenarios, operational consequences, existing safeguards, treatment plans, owners, due dates, exceptions, accepted risks, and closure evidence.
- Support governance and assurance. Prepare status metrics, decision records, issue escalations, control evidence, and review materials for OT cybersecurity and compliance forums.
- Support NERC CIP readiness where applicable. Partner with Compliance and accountable business owners on asset scoping, control ownership, recurring evidence, exception management, and audit preparation; avoid unsupported compliance conclusions.
- Asset, Vulnerability, and Configuration Management
- Improve OT asset awareness. Maintain or validate inventories for controllers, RTACs, HMIs, historians, engineering workstations, network devices, security appliances, communications gateways, and supporting services.
- Assess vulnerabilities in context. Evaluate exposure, exploitability, operational consequence, compensating controls, vendor guidance, and outage requirements rather than relying on CVSS scores alone.
- Strengthen configuration control. Define secure baselines, configuration backup expectations, account and service reviews, network rule reviews, time synchronization, and change records for critical OT components.
- Coordinate remediation. Work with asset owners and vendors to plan testing, approvals, maintenance windows, rollback, validation, and closure evidence for patches and other risk treatments.
- Monitoring, Incident Response, and Recovery
- Develop safe OT monitoring coverage. Identify priority log sources and passive network visibility points; support secure collection, normalization, alerting, retention, and documented blind-spot management.
- Investigate OT security events. Triage anomalies and alerts, correlate technical evidence with operating conditions, preserve records, coordinate escalation, and distinguish cyber activity from equipment or process faults.
- Advance response readiness. Maintain OT-specific playbooks, contacts, decision paths, communications procedures, evidence handling, and interfaces with enterprise incident response and site emergency processes.
- Validate recovery capability. Support backup and restoration testing, controller and network configuration recovery, clean rebuild planning, manual or degraded operating procedures, and lessons-learned tracking.
- Identity, Remote Access, and Third-Party Security
- Govern privileged and remote access. Promote individual identities, MFA, brokered access, least privilege, time-bound approval, controlled file transfer, session logging, emergency access, and prompt revocation.
- Review vendor access and support models. Validate business need, technical reach, approval authority, support windows, monitoring, account ownership, contractual responsibilities, and offboarding.
- Reduce shared-service risk. Assess OT dependencies on identity, DNS, time, virtualization, cloud, cellular, and IT-managed services and document resilient or degraded-mode options.
- Collaboration, Documentation, and Continuous Improvement
- Serve as a trusted OT security partner. Explain risks in operational terms and help engineering and operations teams choose controls that are proportionate, maintainable, and supportable.
- Maintain authoritative records. Keep architecture baselines, data-flow records, standards, procedures, exceptions, risk decisions, evidence packages, and remediation status current and reviewable.
- Build OT security capability. Deliver role-appropriate guidance and exercises for operators, engineers, project teams, service providers, and incident responders.
- Measure program effectiveness. Track meaningful indicators such as asset coverage, critical logging coverage, remote-access accountability, overdue high-risk actions, backup validation, and exception aging.
Requirements
- Experience in power generation, geothermal operations, utilities, renewable energy, substations, industrial process control, or other critical infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with OT network monitoring, SIEM, secure remote access, privileged access, vulnerability-management, firewall-management, or configuration-backup platforms.
- Experience supporting greenfield design, commissioning, site acceptance, management of change, and transition from project delivery to sustained operations.
- Relevant certifications such as GICSP, GRID, CISSP, or equivalent technical and industry credentials.
- Experience coordinating third-party integrators, OEMs, EPCs, operations vendors, or managed service providers in industrial environments.
Benefits & Perks
- Fervo offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and life outside of work. Benefits for eligible employees include:
- Medical, dental, and vision plan options
- Employer-paid basic life insurance and short-term and long-term disability coverage
- A 401(k) plan with a dollar-for-dollar company match
- Flexible paid time off and paid parental leave
- Family-building, fertility, hormonal health, pregnancy, postpartum, and parenting support through Carrot
- A dependent care FSA for eligible child and elder care expenses
- An annual Lifestyle Spending Account for eligible wellness expenses, including fitness, financial planning, pet insurance, and pet care
- Employee ownership opportunities through Fervo’s Employee Stock Purchase Program, as well as stock option grants and bonus opportunities for eligible roles
- Benefits and programs are subject to eligibility requirements and may change.
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