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With one of the nation’s most fuel-efficient, cost-effective power generation fleets and industry-leading reliability, we’re redefining what’s possible in energy. Want to be part of something powerful? Join our outstanding team and help shape the future of energy.\nPosition Specific Description\nThis role leads strategic cyber threat intelligence analysis focused on external threats to the Energy Sector and critical infrastructure. The Principal Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst is responsible for identifying, assessing, and communicating cyber threats that could impact NextEra Energy’s business operations, technology environment, third-party ecosystem, and critical infrastructure dependencies.\nIndividuals in this role develop threat models, help define and refine intelligence requirements, produce strategic intelligence assessments, and create comprehensive reports that translate cyber threat activity into business risk. This position collaborates across cybersecurity teams, business units, enterprise risk functions, peer companies, and external partners to ensure intelligence is actionable, timely, and aligned to organizational priorities.\nThe ideal candidate is an analytical thinker with hands-on cybersecurity investigation experience, such as DFIR, SOC operations, malware analysis, threat hunting, incident response, or red teaming, and has demonstrated experience briefing senior leaders and executives on complex cyber threat topics.\nJob Duties & Responsibilities\nLeads strategic cyber threat intelligence analysis on nation-state, cybercriminal, hacktivist, insider, supply chain, and emerging technology threats relevant to the Energy Sector and critical infrastructure.\nDevelops and maintains cyber threat models that assess adversary intent, capability, targeting, tactics, techniques, procedures, and potential business impact to NextEra Energy.\nHelps define, prioritize, and manage cyber intelligence requirements in partnership with cybersecurity leadership, business units, operational teams, and enterprise risk stakeholders.\nProduces comprehensive strategic intelligence reports, threat assessments, interdependency reports, and executive briefings focused on external cyber threats and their potential operational, financial, reputational, regulatory, and resilience impacts.\nAssesses cyber risks related to critical infrastructure interdependencies, including energy, telecommunications, cloud services, supply chain, vendors, managed services, transportation, water, and other sectors that may affect business continuity.\nTranslates technical cyber threat activity into clear, business-relevant analysis for senior leaders, executives, operational stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.\nApplies structured analytic techniques to evaluate incomplete, conflicting, or uncertain intelligence and clearly communicate confidence levels, assumptions, and intelligence gaps.\nPartners with all relevant business units to ensure intelligence informs the company’s defensive priorities.\nSupports cybersecurity investigations by providing context on threat actors, campaigns, malware, infrastructure, targeting patterns, geopolitical drivers, and industry-specific threat activity.\nMonitors external threat reporting, government advisories, industry sharing communities, commercial intelligence sources, open-source intelligence, dark web reporting, and vendor intelligence to identify risks to the enterprise.\nDevelop intelligence products that support strategic planning, security investment decisions, incident preparedness, tabletop exercises, resilience planning, and executive decision-making.\nBriefs executives and senior leaders on major cyber threat developments, emerging risks, industry trends, and potential impacts to NextEra Energy and the broader Energy Sector.\nBuild and maintain relationships with internal teams, business units, peer utilities, industry groups, government partners, vendors, and intelligence-sharing communities.\nProvides mentorship and analytic guidance to cyber threat intelligence analysts and helps mature intelligence tradecraft, reporting standards, and production workflows.\nPerforms other job-related duties as assigned.\nRequired Qualifications\nHigh School Grad / GED.\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.\n7+ years of relevant experience in cybersecurity, cyber threat intelligence, incident response, digital forensics, SOC operations, malware analysis, threat hunting, red teaming, intelligence analysis, or a related field.\nExperience conducting cybersecurity investigations or supporting technical cyber operations, such as DFIR, SOC analysis, malware analysis, threat hunting, vulnerability analysis, or adversary emulation.\nExperience producing written intelligence assessments, threat reports, executive summaries, or other formal analytic products.\nExperience briefing technical and non-technical audiences on cyber threats, risks, findings, and recommended actions.\nExperience working across teams, business units, or external organizations to collect requirements, share intelligence, align priorities, and support decision-making.\nStrong understanding of cyber threat actors, intrusion lifecycles, malware, common attack techniques, vulnerability exploitation, identity-based attacks, supply chain threats, and ransomware operations.\nStrong analytical, writing, communication, and critical thinking skills.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience in the Energy Sector, electric utility industry, critical infrastructure, or operational technology environments.\nExperience developing strategic cyber threat intelligence products for senior leaders or executives.\nExperience in creating threat models, intelligence requirements, priority intelligence requirements, collection plans, or intelligence production plans.\nExperience assessing critical infrastructure dependencies and cross-sector cyber risk.\nExperience with OT/ICS security concepts, energy operations, grid reliability considerations, or cyber-physical risk.\nExperience using structured analytic techniques, such as analysis of competing hypotheses, key assumptions checks, indicator development, scenario analysis, or estimative language.\nExperience with intelligence frameworks and models such as MITRE ATT&CK, MITRE ATT&CK for ICS, Cyber Kill Chain, Diamond Model, or similar analytic frameworks.\nExperience engaging with industry and government information-sharing partners, such as ISACs, law enforcement, intelligence agencies, vendors, or peer utilities.\nProfessional certifications such as CISSP, GCTI, GCIA, GCIH, GCFA, GNFA, GCFE, GREM, GRID, GMON, Security+, CISA, or related certifications.\nActive security clearance or ability to obtain one, if applicable to the role.\nJob Overview\nThis job performs ongoing cybersecurity risk reviews for new and existing technologies and services and supports ongoing and new cybersecurity projects. Individuals develop requirements for and implement technical security projects and tools, as well as define the company’s cybersecurity policies and control framework. This position collaborates with the company’s IT department and business units to identify the need for, select, and deploy technical controls to meet specific security requirements. Employees in this role build processes and standards to ensure security requirements continue to be met.\nJob Duties & Responsibilities\nAdministers, operates and monitors NextEra Energy (NEE) information security sensors, logging, alerting and other detection mechanisms to identify and respond to threats\nActs as subject matter expert for one or multiple assigned cybersecurity technology stacks (e.g., identity and access management, network intrusion detection and prevention, host based security tools)\nCollaborates with security architecture to identify, evaluate and recommend new security technologies for suitability within NEE’s environment and security posture\nCommunicates ongoing cybersecurity activities, priorities and risk measurements or mitigations at multiple organizational levels\nProvides guidance for security activities and requirements in the system development life cycle (SDLC) and application development efforts. Participates in organizational projects, as required\nPerforms other job-related duties as assigned\nRequired Qualifications\nHigh School Grad / GED\nBachelor’s or Equivalent Experience\nExperience: 7+ years\nPreferred Qualifications\nCertified Information Systems Aud (CISA) certification\nNextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Click here to learn more.\nEmployee Group: Exempt\nEmployee Type: Full Time\nJob Category: Information Technology\nOrganization: Florida Power & Light Company\nRelocation Provided: Yes, if applicable\nNextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.\nNextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to , providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you.\nNextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. 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