Training Security Operations Center (TSOC) Engineer or Senior Engineer

Department Summary

The Computer Science (CS) Department in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon offers BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Science as well as BS and MS degrees in cybersecurity (starting Fall 2026). Instruction is provided by over 20 tenure track faculty and teaching professors. The department serves approximately 600 undergraduate and 90 graduate majors, as well as offering several core education classes in the discipline. The primary research foci of the tenure track faculty are high-performance computing, data science, networking, and distributed systems with cross-cutting concerns of security and privacy.

To provide transformative experiential learning opportunities to students in the Cybersecurity and other related programs, the CS Department is creating a Training Security Operations Center (TSOC) at the University of Oregon campus. The TSOC follows the teaching hospital model where it is managed by full time SOC engineers and staffed by resident CS students registering in the related classes. The TSOC establishes partnerships with vendors for security monitoring services and serves clients outside the university at no or low cost. It may also offer training services to other members of the community.

Position Summary

The TSOC Engineer plays a critical role in designing, implementing, and managing cybersecurity systems and policies within the TSOC infrastructure and for its clients. This includes developing secure systems aligned with TSOC design principles, determining policies for network security devices such as firewalls, VPNs, and access control mechanisms, and leading various technical projects and initiatives.

The TSOC Engineer will supervise and train students across all phases of security operations as part of their experiential learning opportunity, and enable research by sharing data, providing access to TSOC environments, and sharing pain points that provide opportunities for innovation and manage security analysis tasks for TSOC students and employees. The TSOC engineer may also interact with TSOC clients to understand and address their cybersecurity concerns.

Other key responsibilities will include – performing cyber defense incident triage, performing real-time cyber defense, and correlating data to identify specific vulnerabilities and make recommendations that enable expeditious remediation. In addition, the position will interpret information collected and analyze malware.

The Senior TSOC Engineer will take on expanded leadership responsibilities, including mentoring and training other TSOC Engineers alongside students, and providing strategic guidance across security operations and research enablement. The Senior TSOC Engineer will ensure security policies and procedures adhere to industry standards and compliance requirements. In addition, this position is responsible for leading the response for major security threats or breaches, coordinating remediation efforts.

Minimum Requirements

To qualify as a TSOC Engineer :

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field AND two (2) years of relevant experience in Cybersecurity; OR
• Bachelor’s degree in another field AND three (3) years of relevant experience in Cybersecurity; OR
• Six (6) years of relevant experience in Cybersecurity.

To qualify as a Senior TSOC Engineer :

Expertise in two or more of the following IT Security domains is considered as relevant experience : Data Security, Digital Forensics, Incident Response and Analysis, IT Systems and Operations, Network Security, Systems and Applications Security, Vulnerability Management, Penetration Testing, or Cloud Security.