Gulfport Energy is a publicly traded, independent natural gas-weighted exploration and production company, headquartered in Oklahoma City. Founded in 1997, its operations center on acquiring and producing natural gas, crude oil, and NGLs across major U.S. basins - including approximately 258,000 net acres in the Utica and Marcellus plays and about 73,000 net acres in the SCOOP play in central Oklahoma. The company's core technical work revolves around advanced drilling, completion techniques, and production optimization.
For a cybersecurity team, the threat model is shaped by critical infrastructure. Gulfport's assets span geographically distributed field operations - wellheads, SCADA systems, remote telemetry, and corporate IT networks - across Appalachia and the Anadarko basin. Protecting uptime and data integrity across this OT/IT convergence surface is a concrete operational challenge. The company's stated focus on operational efficiency and margin improvement means security tooling and architecture decisions will be evaluated on their impact to production continuity and cost structure.
Roles here would likely involve securing industrial control systems, managing identity and access across field and corporate environments, and building resilience against threats targeting energy infrastructure - from ransomware aiming at operational disruption to nation-state actors eyeing the sector. The environment demands someone who can speak both OT and IT, understands the regulatory landscape governing energy producers, and can implement controls without introducing friction into drilling and production workflows.
