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Open Knoxville Cybersecurity jobs

I pull these straight from each employer’s own careers feed, read each posting to say what the role actually is, and link out to the authoritative listing — no aggregators, no reposts.

8 active postings · 0 AI required · 4 AI mentioned · 4 no AI mention.

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6d ago Segra · Principal

Staff Information Security Engineer

No AI mention Knoxville Splunk $116.0k–$140k

Summary

Senior information-security engineering role protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Segra's fiber network and IT systems, spanning identity/authentication technologies, SIEM administration, and cloud security controls across AWS, Azure, and Office 365. Also covers incident response, PKI/TLS, and compliance with NIST and ISO frameworks, requiring 10+ years of experience. Hybrid, three days per week onsite.

StackPython DevOps AWS Azure

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Senior

Senior Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO)

No AI mention Oak Ridge Splunk Possibly stale — last seen Jul 6, 2026

Summary

A classified-systems security officer role: serve as ISSO for Sensitive Compartmented Information and Special Access Program systems at Oak Ridge National Laboratory — maintaining System Security Plans in Xacta, running certification and accreditation, continuous monitoring, audits, and classified media handling under DOE and sponsor policy. Requires a current TS clearance with SCI eligibility, roughly eight years of cybersecurity and C&A experience, and a Security+ or equivalent 8570/8140 certification.

StackDevOps ABAP

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Cadre5 · Mid

Identity and Access Management Engineer

AI mentioned Knoxville Possibly stale — last seen Jul 11, 2026

Summary

An identity and access management engineer building the identity platform and federation hub for a federally funded DOE science cloud at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, supporting multi-cloud, on-prem, and HPC services across many national labs. The position is full-time and can telecommute, with occasional travel to the Oak Ridge facility, and the first interview step requires a Microsoft Teams meeting with video on.

AI-keyword evidence: ai

StackPython AWS

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Cadre5 · Junior

DevSecOps Engineer

AI mentioned Knoxville Possibly stale — last seen Jul 11, 2026

Summary

A DevSecOps role placed through a contractor's lab-partnership division to support Oak Ridge National Laboratory's supercomputing (NCCS) infrastructure, building foundational security tooling into the CI/CD pipelines that deploy multi-cloud science services. Work centers on infrastructure- and security-as-code across dev through production environments, and prior HPC experience is not expected. Full-time permanent and mostly telecommute, with occasional travel to the Oak Ridge, TN facility.

AI-keyword evidence: ai , ai tooling

StackDevOps AWS

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Cadre5 · Senior

Senior Information Systems Security Officer ISSO

No AI mention Knoxville Possibly stale — last seen Jul 11, 2026

Summary

A senior Information Systems Security Officer role at Cadre5 supporting Oak Ridge National Lab, leading RMF continuous-monitoring and authorization activities (System Security Plans, POA&Ms, security testing, and NIST 800-53 compliance) at a more senior level (five to eight years). This is security governance and accreditation rather than engineering. Knoxville and Oak Ridge, TN; requires an active DOE Q or L (or DoD TS/Secret) clearance.

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Cadre5 · Mid

Cyber Governance Analyst

No AI mention Knoxville Possibly stale — last seen Jul 11, 2026

Summary

A cyber governance, risk, and compliance analyst role at Cadre5 supporting Oak Ridge National Lab, translating laws and regulations into policies and controls and performing NIST 800-53A security-control assessments. This is GRC and policy work (risk management, audits, compliance frameworks) rather than hands-on security operations, with five-plus years expected. Knoxville and Oak Ridge, TN; requires a DOE Q clearance and US citizenship.

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Cadre5 · Senior

Senior Identity and Access Management Engineer

AI mentioned Knoxville Possibly stale — last seen Jul 9, 2026

Summary

A senior identity and access management engineer role at Cadre5 designing and operating the identity and federation platform for the American Science Cloud, a DOE multi-lab cloud for AI and HPC. The work spans multi-cloud identity architecture, federation, and access management supporting many DOE labs, making it a security-engineering build role. Knoxville and Oak Ridge, TN (telecommute possible); requires US citizenship and a DOE clearance.

AI-keyword evidence: ai

StackPython AWS

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Cadre5 · Mid

Information Systems Security Officer ISSO

AI mentioned Knoxville Possibly stale — last seen Jul 11, 2026

Summary

An Information Systems Security Officer role at Cadre5 supporting Oak Ridge National Lab, driving RMF continuous-monitoring and authorization (C&A and ATO) work by maintaining System Security Plans, POA&Ms, and secure configurations under NIST 800-53. This is compliance- and risk-focused security governance rather than hands-on engineering. Knoxville and Oak Ridge, TN; requires an active DOE Q or L (or DoD TS/Secret) clearance.

AI-keyword evidence: ai

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Board snapshot

A snapshot of what’s open on this board right now.

Aug 4, 2026

Open postings
8
Employers hiring
3
Name AI tooling
50%
Disclose salary
12%

AI workload

Postings that name AI tooling

Required00%
Mentioned450%
No AI mention450%

Top employers

By open postings

Cadre56
Oak Ridge National Laboratory1
Segra1

Posting age

Time since each role was posted

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Office policy

Stated work arrangement

No posting states an arrangement.

Seniority

Level mix across the board

Principal112%
Senior338%
Mid338%
Junior112%

Where the roles are

Posting location within the metro

Knoxville7
Oak Ridge1

Salary range

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Most-named platforms

Tools called out in JDs

Splunk2

Charts

AI workload × seniority

Each level’s AI mix — share of that level’s postings, most-senior first

AI requiredAI mentionedNo AI mention
LevelAI mixReq %
Principal0%
Senior0%
Mid0%
Junior0%

New postings per week

Postings by the week they were posted (open + closed), most recent 14 weeks

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The newest week is still in progress (shown with a hollow dot).

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About this page

Every posting is classified into one of three AI buckets: AI required when the description names specific AI tools as required skills (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) or names LLM/agent/RAG/embeddings as core to the day-to-day; AI mentioned when the description mentions AI tooling in passing without it being the core skill; No AI mention when the description contains none of the relevant keywords. Each row shows the matched keyword evidence inline and surfaces named AI developer-productivity tools as expanded-row chips, so you can judge the signal for yourself.

The geographic filter is opinionated. Knox County (Knoxville) postings are always included; so are postings across the surrounding MSA — Anderson County (the Oak Ridge belt: ORNL, Y-12, the East Tennessee Technology Park), Blount County (Maryville and Alcoa, with Clayton Homes and the DENSO plant), Campbell County (LaFollette), Grainger County (Rutledge), Loudon County (Lenoir City and Tellico Village), Morgan County (Wartburg), Roane County (Kingston and Harriman), and Union County (Maynardville). Sevier County — Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, and Gatlinburg — sits just outside the official Knoxville MSA but is included here as the obvious commute-shed and tourism extension. Remote postings are included only when the employer also has a Knoxville-area office — otherwise anywhere-in-the-US remote noise would swamp the page. Use the Location filter to narrow to a specific city.

This page is an independent aggregation. Mungomash is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of the employers listed. Application-status tracking and email alerts are out of scope. Per-posting salary ranges are surfaced inline when the employer discloses one — structured ATS fields first, JD-body prose as a fallback; rows with no disclosed range render no chip. For broader salary context, see H-1B Salaries (visa-petition disclosures) and Dev Wages (national survey).

Meetups, user groups, and tech events

Recurring

DC865

recurring

Monthly · in-person · Knoxville Entrepreneur Center, Knoxville

security infosec hacking sysadmin

Knoxville's information-security community — a DEF CON group for hackers, sysadmins, developers, and students. A welcoming on-ramp into the local security scene, relevant to a metro thick with national-lab and defense-contractor cybersecurity work.

Monthly · in-person · Knoxville Entrepreneur Center, Knoxville

devops cloud infrastructure ci-cd

A group exploring the intersection of development and operations — automation, cloud, and the tooling that ties them together. Practitioner-led sessions for engineers working across the deployment pipeline.

Monthly · in-person · TEKsystems, Knoxville

functional-programming fsharp haskell scala

The Knoxville functional programmers group, focused on collaborative learning of functional-programming languages and techniques. Welcoming to anyone curious about FP regardless of their day-job stack.

Knox.NET

recurring

Every 3rd Monday of the month · in-person · The Casual Pint, Hardin Valley, Knoxville

dotnet csharp microsoft

The Knoxville-area .NET user group, a member of the .NET Foundation, focused on .NET and related Microsoft technologies. Meets the third Monday of each month at The Casual Pint in Hardin Valley.

KnoxData

recurring

Monthly · in-person · The Technology Cooperative, Knoxville

data data-science ml analytics

An open community for anyone interested in the multidisciplinary field of data science, drawing both business and academic practitioners. A natural fit given Oak Ridge and UT's deep data and computational-science gravity in the region.

KnoxDevs

recurring

Biweekly casual lunches on Thursdays, plus quarterly community events · in-person · Knoxville

community polyglot networking

The technology-neutral umbrella for Knoxville's developer community, run as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Hosts biweekly casual lunches and quarterly gatherings, and maintains the knoxdevs.com directory of every local dev group. A good first stop for anyone new to the Knoxville tech scene.

KnoxJava

recurring

Monthly · in-person · The Technology Cooperative, Knoxville

java jvm kotlin

A group for Java and JVM developers in the Knoxville area to collaborate and learn from one another. Practitioner talks on the Java ecosystem in a relaxed, social setting.

KnoxPy

recurring

Monthly · in-person · The Technology Cooperative, Knoxville

python data ml web

Knoxville's Python user group, where intermediate and advanced users share how they use the language at monthly meetings. Topics range across data, web, and general Python practice; newcomers are welcome.

Knoxville AWS

recurring

Monthly · hybrid · Knoxville

aws cloud devops

A group for cloud-computing practitioners focused on Amazon Web Services, sharing what they are building and running in the cloud. Open to anyone working with or learning AWS.

Last Monday monthly, 6:30-8:30 PM ET · in-person · The Technology Cooperative, Knoxville

mobile-ios swift

Knoxville chapter of CocoaHeads for macOS, iOS, and Swift developers, meeting the last Monday monthly at The Technology Cooperative. The metro's dedicated Apple-platform group within the KnoxDevs ecosystem.

free

Knoxville JS

recurring

Monthly · in-person · Knoxville Entrepreneur Center, Knoxville

javascript typescript web react node

A JavaScript user group open to all skill and interest levels, with monthly talks across the front-end and Node ecosystem. Builds community through hands-on, practitioner-led sessions at the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center.

Last verified 2026-06-10.

Startups

Early stage

PerfectServe

private Healthcare communication & provider scheduling

founded 2000 · 201-500 people · Knoxville, TN

healthtech saas clinical-communication scheduling

Clinical communication and provider-scheduling platform used by more than 500 hospitals and tens of thousands of medical practices. One of Knoxville's longest-running and largest software companies — private-equity-backed and well past startup stage, but a cornerstone of the local healthtech scene.

Starseer

seed AI security & compliance

1-10 people · Knoxville, TN

ai security ml compliance

A model-agnostic AI security platform that gives organizations visibility into AI behavior — analyzing and hardening models and defending against prompt injection, backdoors, and data poisoning while supporting compliance with rules like the EU AI Act. Raised a $2 million seed round led by Gula Tech Adventures in 2025.

VetVerifi

seed Veterinary compliance & pet health records

1-10 people · Knoxville, TN

healthtech vettech saas compliance

A platform that automates and secures pet-vaccination-record verification, integrating veterinary providers with grooming, boarding, and pet-daycare services to simplify a previously fax-bound compliance process. Closed a $2.8 million seed round led by Las Olas Venture Capital; an early portfolio company of Knoxville's Market Square Ventures.

Founders: David Servodidio (CEO)

Late stage

Cirrus Insight

growth Sales productivity / Salesforce tooling

founded 2011 · 50-100 people · Knoxville, TN

saas ai

Syncs Salesforce with Gmail and Outlook and layers on scheduling, tracking, and sales-engagement tooling for revenue teams. Long-running Knoxville SaaS (with an Irvine, CA office); ~60+ employees.

Founders: Brandon Bruce, Ryan Huff

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Laborup

growth AI voice agents for workforce & labor

11-50 people · Knoxville, TN

ai voice automation staffing

Builds AI voice agents applied to workforce and labor operations, with regional expansion plans and a 2025 capital raise of roughly $7.7 million. One of East Tennessee's more visible applied-AI companies.

Lirio

growth Behavioral-AI health engagement

founded 2016 · 100-200 people · Knoxville, TN

healthtech ai saas

Combines behavioral science with AI ("Precision Nudging") to personalize health communications that drive patients toward preventive and recommended care. Knoxville-headquartered, with an AI/data engineering org; has raised ~$84M.

Latest round: $83.9M total raised

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SmartRIA

growth RIA compliance automation

11-50 people · Knoxville, TN

fintech regtech saas compliance

Cloud compliance-automation software for registered investment advisors, compliance consultants, and chief compliance officers, used by more than 1,000 RIAs and compliance teams. A downtown-Knoxville regtech company serving the wealth-management industry.

Acquired

GRIDSMART

acquired Intelligent traffic management

founded 2006 · 50-100 people · Knoxville, TN

ai hardware logistics

Single-camera computer-vision system that detects and tracks vehicles to optimize signalized intersections, with cloud analytics. Knoxville-built; acquired by Cubic in 2019 for ~$87M, with the traffic-vision engineering team remaining local.

Vendor Registry

acquired Public-procurement software

founded 2011 · 10-50 people · Knoxville, TN

govtech saas marketplace

E-procurement and vendor-management software connecting local governments, utilities, and school boards with suppliers. Raised seed funding, then was acquired into mdf commerce (now Sovra); the team continues in Knoxville.

Founders: Chris Van Beke, Brian Strong

Last verified 2026-06-10.

Employers

Every employer I track for this metro — including ones with nothing open right now.

Cadre5Knoxville661Careers↗2
Oak Ridge National LaboratoryOak Ridge1124Careers↗0
SegraKnoxville102Careers↗1
Beehive IndustriesKnoxville000Careers↗0
Boston Government ServicesKnoxville001Careers↗0
BWXTKnoxville000Careers↗0
CentriworksKnoxville000Careers↗0
Clayton HomesKnoxville002Careers↗0
Covenant HealthKnoxville000Careers↗0
Crowe LLPKnoxville001Careers↗0
Denso North AmericaKnoxville000Careers↗0
EdFinancial ServicesKnoxville000Careers↗0
Electro-Active TechnologiesKnoxville000Careers↗0
GEM TechnologiesKnoxville000Careers↗0
HII Mission TechnologiesKnoxville001Careers↗0
Jewelry TelevisionKnoxville000Careers↗0
LBMC Technology SolutionsKnoxville000Careers↗0
LirioKnoxville001Careers↗0
ORAUKnoxville000Careers↗0
PeratonKnoxville000Careers↗0
Pilot CompanyKnoxville001Careers↗0
ProNova SolutionsKnoxville000Careers↗0
RDI TechnologiesKnoxville000Careers↗0
RegScaleKnoxville002Careers↗0
SmartBankKnoxville000Careers↗0
StoragePugKnoxville000Careers↗0
Strata-GKnoxville000Careers↗0
Tennessee Valley AuthorityKnoxville000Careers↗0
UCORKnoxville000Careers↗0
University of TennesseeKnoxville005Careers↗0
Warner Bros. DiscoveryKnoxville000Careers↗0
X-energyKnoxville000Careers↗0

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