Job Posting End Date
08-04-2026
Please note the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date.
Job Summary
The Security Manager is responsible for leading a team of security professionals and overseeing initiatives with significant operational, strategic, financial, and organizational impact. This role provides leadership and direction across security programs, projects, and day-to-day operations, ensuring alignment with business objectives and enterprise security strategies.
Key responsibilities include team leadership and development, performance management, strategic planning, resource allocation, risk assessment, budget oversight, project execution, customer engagement, and issue resolution. The Security Manager is accountable for prioritizing work, assigning and tracking deliverables, fostering employee growth, and maintaining a high-performing, collaborative team environment. Decisions are guided by established policies, procedures, and business objectives, with general direction provided by senior leadership.
The role requires building and maintaining strong partnerships with Operating Companies, Business Units, Information Technology (IT) organizations, and external vendors and service providers. The Security Manager is expected to serve as a trusted business partner and peer to organizational leaders while driving the adoption and implementation of security solutions that support operational needs and strategic goals.
Additionally, the Security Manager oversees annual operating and capital budgets, ensures the effective utilization of resources, and promotes efficient processes that enhance security, reduce risk, and deliver business value. The position fosters a culture of safety, accountability, engagement, innovation, and continuous improvement across the Security organization.
The scope and complexity of Security Manager roles may vary based on factors such as the size and impact of projects managed, level of organizational risk and complexity, breadth of business influence, budget responsibility, and the number and level of employees supervised.
Job Description
The Security Manager - Fusion Center leads AEP's integrated Fusion Center, a 24x7 operational capability responsible for providing enterprise-wide situational awareness across cybersecurity events while maintaining correlation with physical security events, and grid operations environments. This leader oversees a team of approximately 10–15 analysts, and fusion personnel responsible for monitoring, analyzing, and responding to threats and events that could impact the reliability, safety, security, and resilience of AEP operations.
The Fusion Center serves as a centralized hub that correlates cross domain events leveraging the intelligence, operational data, and security information from Information Technology (IT), Operational Technology (OT), physical security systems, and grid operations. The Security Manager is responsible for ensuring timely detection, assessment, escalation, and coordination of response activities for cyber incidents and blended events which integrate physical security details and grid conditions affecting critical infrastructure.
This role provides strategic leadership for the development of AEP's enterprise Fusion Center capabilities, enhancing cross-functional collaboration, threat intelligence integration, and real-time decision-making to protect AEP's customers, employees, assets, and critical infrastructure.
What you’ll do:
Essential Job Functions & Tasks
Leadership & Team Management
Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team of Fusion Center analysts operating within a 24x7 environment.
Provide coaching, mentoring, performance management, and professional development opportunities for team members.
Foster a culture of collaboration across cybersecurity, physical security, grid operations, emergency management, and intelligence functions.
Ensure adequate staffing, training, operational readiness, and succession planning to support continuous operations.
Establish performance expectations and operational metrics that promote accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Fusion Operations & Situational Awareness
Direct daily Fusion Center operations, ensuring continuous monitoring of cyber events incorporating relevant physical security and operational technology activity.
Oversee the integration of intelligence, operational telemetry, and security information to create a unified operational picture across the enterprise.
Lead efforts to identify, assess, and prioritize threats that may impact reliability, safety, security, or regulatory compliance.
Ensure timely dissemination of actionable event intelligence and situational awareness reporting to executive leadership, operational partners, and incident response teams.
Establish operational processes that promote rapid detection, correlation, validation, and escalation of cross-domain events.
Threat Monitoring, Intelligence & Analysis
Lead analysts in identifying and investigating cyber events which also leverage physical security and operational technology events.
Leverage the correlation of data from SIEM platforms, OT monitoring systems, physical access control systems, video systems, threat intelligence platforms, and external intelligence sources.
Maintain awareness of emerging threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures impacting critical infrastructure and the energy sector.
Coordinate with government agencies, industry partners, Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs), and peer utilities to strengthen enterprise awareness and preparedness.
Ensure event intelligence and assessments support operational decision-making and risk reduction efforts.
Incident Response & Coordination
Serve as the primary escalation point for high-priority and cross-domain security events.
Coordinate enterprise Cybersecurity response efforts including those that blend Cyber, Physical and Grid Operations events.
Ensure incidents are managed using established response frameworks and escalation procedures.
Support executive communications and provide operational briefings during high-impact events.
Technology, Automation & Continuous Improvement
Influence the Fusion Center technology ecosystem, including monitoring, analytics, visualization, automation, and intelligence platforms.
What We're Looking For:
Education requirements are listed below:
Bachelor's degree or Associate degree combined with a minimum of 2 years of applicable business/technical experience in Security (Cyber and/or Physical), Business Administration, Computer Science, or related field OR a HS diploma/GED combined with a minimum of 4 years of applicable business/technical experience preferably in Security (Cyber and/or Physical), Business Administration, Computer Science, or related field.
Work Experience requirement listed below:
10 or more years of Security (Physical and/or Cyber), business administration, computer science, or other technical experience, demonstrating steady progression in responsibilities including 4 or more years of direct supervision experience preferred (in addition to any experience identified above).
At AEP, we’re more than just an energy company — we’re a team of dedicated professionals committed to delivering safe, reliable, and innovative energy solutions. Guided by our mission to put the customer first, we strive to exceed expectations by listening, responding, and continuously improving the way we serve our communities. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact and being part of a forward-thinking organization, this is the company for you!
Compensation Data
Compensation Grade:
SP20-010
Compensation Range:
$136,539.00 - $177,503.00
The Physical Demand Level for this job is: S – Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently. (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.
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