Citizens Energy Group is a public charitable trust that has been operating since 1887, providing four critical infrastructure services to the Indianapolis area: natural gas, thermal energy, water, and wastewater. The trust model is key here - no shareholders, a mandate for community benefit and environmental stewardship, and a service footprint reaching approximately 900,000 people plus thousands of businesses. That’s a massive attack surface spanning legacy OT and modern IT systems.
The threat model for a utility of this scope is straightforward: disruption to any of those four service lines has immediate public safety implications. Cybersecurity roles here aren’t protecting abstract assets; they’re defending heating systems, water treatment, and gas distribution for a major metropolitan area. The charitable trust structure means the mission is explicitly about community well-being - programs like Warm Heart Warm Home underscore that the operational and social stakes are inseparable.
Expect to work across domains where IT/OT convergence is the central challenge. The tooling and team structure aren’t publicly detailed, but the operational reality is clear: you’re securing infrastructure that keeps a city running, with the added complexity of balancing reliability mandates against evolving threats targeting the utilities sector.
