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 18 tenure track faculty, and 5 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 will initiate and lead various tasks and projects at TSOC. The Engineer will design systems that adhere to cybersecurity and privacy principles in accordance with TSOC design principles and determine policies for network security devices such as firewalls, VPNs, and network access control devices for TSOC infrastructure and customers.

The TSOC Engineer will mentor resident students in all phases of security operations 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 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 TSOC Engineer will interpret information collected and analyze malware.

Minimum Requirements • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field OR • Bachelor’s degree in another field and 3 years of relevant experience in Cybersecurity. • Two years of demonstrated expertise in two or more of the following IT Security domains: 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.