Southwestern Pennsylvania employers that regularly hire for cybersecurity roles
The Pittsburgh Technology Council (opens in a new tab) has reported that cybersecurity roles make up more than 20% of regional tech job postings.
The following Pittsburgh area employers regularly hire for cybersecurity roles. Check their careers websites for current openings.
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PNC Financial Services Group
Headquartered in Pittsburgh with roughly 111,000 employees regionally. Frequently posts security engineer, SOC analyst, and security specialist roles (Splunk/SIEM-heavy environments); one of the most consistently active cybersecurity employers in the region.
PNC also offers PartnerUpPNC (opens in a new tab), a workforce program for high school seniors.
UPMC
The region’s largest non-governmental employer (60,000+ employees). Runs co-op and internship pipelines with Pitt and CMU and is frequently cited alongside PNC as a top destination for early-career security analyst and network security engineer roles.
Highmark Health
Including Allegheny Health Network and enGen
Major regional health insurer and hospital network with a combined workforce near 26,000; regularly posts information security analyst and related roles.
Westinghouse Electric Company
Nuclear energy company headquartered in the Pittsburgh area. Hires cybersecurity architecture, vulnerability management, and security engineering roles, reflecting the region’s critical-infrastructure and industrial-control-systems security niche.
Eaton
Global power management company with regional presence; committed to cybersecurity co-ops/internships as noted above, and posts cybersecurity engineering roles regularly.
Consulting firms
Deloitte, PwC and other consulting/professional-services firms maintain a steady presence of cybersecurity consulting, GRC, and audit-adjacent roles in the region. These opportunities are often an entry point for career-changers with transferable analytical skills.
Financial services
Including BNY Mellon and FHLBank Pittsburgh
Regional financial services employers with consistent hiring for SOC analyst, IAM, and compliance-adjacent cybersecurity roles, per regional IT-staffing analysis.
Carnegie Mellon University / Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
A federally funded research and development center anchored at CMU; a significant, if less visible, driver of cybersecurity hiring in the region, particularly for research-adjacent and federal-contractor roles.