Zero Trust Cybersecurity Engineer at Electrosoft
Belleville, IL
$120,000–$130,000
Jul 9, 2026
Belleville, IL
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A federal cybersecurity engineering role focused on advancing a government client's Zero Trust program at Scott Air Force Base. Day-to-day work involves conducting maturity and gap assessments, building implementation roadmaps, and driving adoption of Zero Trust principles across network, identity, data, and application domains. Suited to engineers with hands-on enterprise network security experience, familiarity with federal compliance frameworks, and an active Secret clearance.
Mid level · 4+ years · St. Louis, MO-IL · Secret clearance · Full-time
Pay in the description: $120,000–$130,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $108,760 (middle half $84,815–$135,424). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The role is primarily onsite at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. The nearest major CBSA is St. Louis, MO-IL (43780), as Scott AFB is in the Metro East Illinois portion of that metro area.
The title carries no explicit seniority level word; however, the 4-year minimum experience requirement and the supporting (non-lead) framing ('supporting role to the Pillar Leads') point to a Mid-level band despite the broad scope of responsibilities.
A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field is listed as the minimum education requirement, but the posting explicitly states that 'relevant years of experience may be used in substitution' — so the degree requirement is treated as None (equivalent experience accepted).
The 8140 Advanced certifications (CISSO, CISSP-ISSAP, GCSA, GICSP, GCLD, GCIA, or equivalent) are listed under Basic Qualifications and are treated as a hard gate. The preferred cloud and vendor-specific certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP, Zscaler, Palo Alto, etc.) are listed under a separate 'Preferred' section and are not hard gates.
Technologies such as SD-WAN, SASE, SOAR, UEBA, IAM, and threat modeling appear in the duties/narrative context describing the ZT landscape the candidate must understand, rather than in a discrete required-skills list — marked as preferred accordingly.
The alt SOC (15-1244 Network and Computer Systems Administrators) is noted because the role has a strong network architecture and operations component alongside its security focus; however, the cybersecurity and ZT assessment/advisory work is the primary day-to-day function.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Zero Trust Architecture.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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