National Security & Resilience Advisor

Georgia Power Company; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Company seeks a Principal Advisor, National Security & Resilience, to connect with federal partners and translate classified and unclassified intelligence into actionable guidance for cyber, geopolitical, and systemic risks to utility operations. You will coordinate across energy, communications, and financial services, working with security, policy, government affairs, and business teams.

The role requires leading risk reviews, briefing executives, and guiding enterprise risk decisions

Qualifications

• 8–12 years federal intelligence or cyber operations experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, intelligence, computing, engineering, technology, cyber policy, or related field.
• Willing to obtain DoD TS/SCI eligibility.
• Knowledge of agency missions, intelligence collection, and risk analysis.
• Experience handling classified/unclassified intelligence; DoD and DHS information sharing.
• Knowledge of ICS/SCADA and energy sector threats; OT/IT risks.
• Familiarity with NERC CIP, DOE C2M2, and NIST RMF/CSF; incident triage/escalation.
• Ability to use threat modeling and geopolitical analysis to explain risks to utility operations.
• Experience briefing leaders and coordinating across agencies; leadership by influence.
• Strong judgment, analysis, problem-solving, and communication.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments with supervision.

Responsibilities

• Federal relationships: Maintain partnerships and coordinate information sharing on threats and incidents.
• Intelligence and advice: Explain intelligence in terms of business risks and actions.
• Policy coordination: Advise leaders on threats and policy impacts.
• Cross-sector work: Coordinate with utilities, government, energy, and financial services partners.
• Operational support: Help identify and action enterprise risks across teams.
• Project delivery: Plan initiatives, identify gaps, track commitments.
• Partnership improvements: Establish contractual vehicles for high-level discussions.

Skills

Federal intelligence/cyber ops

Risk analysis

Leadership by influence

Threat modeling

Written and verbal communication

Multi-task management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity/intelligence/engineering/tech or related field

Job description

Southern Company seeks a Principal Advisor, National Security & Resilience, to connect with federal partners and translate classified and unclassified intelligence into actionable guidance for cyber, geopolitical, and systemic risks to utility operations. You will coordinate across energy, communications, and financial services, working with security, policy, government affairs, and business teams.

The role requires leading risk reviews, briefing executives, and guiding enterprise risk decisions