Cybersecurity Operations Analyst

About the Role: Powerex Corp., the wholly owned energy marketing subsidiary of BC Hydro, is responsible for marketing clean electricity across North America. Cybersecurity is fundamental to maintaining the reliability, integrity, and availability of the systems that support our business.

Our Cybersecurity Operations team protects a complex enterprise environment. We continuously evolve our capabilities to defend against sophisticated cyber threats while enabling the secure adoption of new technologies.

We are seeking an experienced Cybersecurity Operations Analyst to join our growing Security Operations team. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex security challenges, continuously learning, sharing knowledge, and improving cybersecurity capabilities through collaboration, automation, and innovation. The ideal candidate demonstrates technical ownership, sound judgment, curiosity, and initiative in complex security operations environments.

Why Join Powerex?

Protect critical business systems supporting North America's energy markets.

Work alongside a highly skilled cybersecurity team tackling sophisticated threats.

Influence the evolution of enterprise cybersecurity capabilities.

Access opportunities for technical growth, mentorship, and continuous learning.

Comprehensive compensation, pension, and benefits package.

Key Responsibilities: Incident

• Detection & Response
• Investigate, analyze, and respond to cyber incidents across the environment.
• Perform security event correlation using multiple data sources to determine business impact, root cause, and appropriate remediation and mitigation measures.
• Perform proactive threat hunting using behavioral analytics, threat intelligence, indicators of compromise (IOCs), and attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to identify suspicious or malicious activity.
• Analyze malware-related indicators, network traffic, endpoint telemetry, cloud activity, identity events, and system logs to identify malicious behavior and determine attack methods.
• Coordinate response activities with infrastructure, networking, cloud, application, and business teams to contain and remediate security incidents.
• Develop and maintain incident response plans and procedures, playbooks, and operational documentation.
• Security Operations & Monitoring
• Play a key role in the delivery of security operations services across monitoring, threat detection, identity protection, vulnerability management, security analytics, and operational reporting.
• Support, administer, and continuously improve the organization's cybersecurity technologies, including SIEM, EDR/XDR, identity and access management, network security, email security, EPM/application control, cloud services, vulnerability management, security monitoring and analytics, and automation/orchestration platforms.
• Develop, tune, and optimize monitoring rules, detection logic, dashboards, alerts, reports, and use cases to improve visibility and detection coverage.
• Review security events, telemetry, and existing controls to identify opportunities to improve detection capabilities and operational efficiency.
• Validate security configuration changes and ensure cybersecurity controls remain effective.
• Provide cybersecurity operations input on selected technology projects, including review of operational requirements, implementation considerations, and transition into production support. Provide recommendations that align with security best practices, Zero Trust principles, and defense-in-depth strategies.
• Vulnerability & Risk Management
• Perform or assist with vulnerability assessments, exposure management, security assessments, and audit activities.
• Assist with remediation activities by providing guidance and prioritization recommendations based on business risk, exploitability, asset criticality, and threat intelligence.
• Monitor external intelligence sources, vendor advisories, CERT notifications, and industry reports to identify emerging threats and vulnerabilities, and assess their impact on the organization.
• Key Qualifications: Required
• 5+ years of hands-on cybersecurity operations, incident response, detection engineering, or equivalent security operations experience.

What We Offer: Compensation: The expected salary range for this role is $109,680–$148,400 and eligibility for applicable on-call compensation programs.

Comprehensive benefits package including extended health, dental, vision, and pension.

Opportunity to build and shape a critical cybersecurity function in a growing, high-impact energy trading organization.

A collaborative, innovation-driven IT culture that is actively embracing AI and modern cybersecurity practices.

Professional development support, including funding for certifications and training.

About Powerex: Powerex Corp. is a market leader in the trading and marketing of clean and renewable wholesale electricity and associated environmental products. We are at the forefront of the clean energy transition, helping our wholesale customers throughout Western North America meet their increasingly ambitious environmental goals. Our customers include electricity and natural gas utilities, global energy companies, large financial institutions, and global technology companies.

We are an established, entrepreneurial, and consistently successful company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of BC Hydro. Powerex’s financial success directly benefits the citizens of British Columbia as Powerex’s income helps lower BC Hydro’s electricity rates.

Fast paced, dynamic, and empowering are words that describe a career with Powerex. We pride ourselves on having a supportive and fun culture, and a strong commitment to the development and wellbeing of our employees. With an average tenure of 15+ years on our trade floor, Powerex stands out as an employer of choice in Vancouver. Ask any Powerex employee what they love about their job, and their first comment will likely be “the people I work with every day.”

At Powerex we believe that a diverse team is a strong team, and our dedication to equity and inclusion is intertwined with our performance-based culture. We strive for excellence in everything we do, and we recognize that diverse perspectives and backgrounds fuel innovation and drive superior performance.