Which roles ask for Zero Trust at tech companies · 30 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
30 roles counted that list Zero Trust, one per company, title and level; 112 postings in the window.
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In short
Zero Trust: listed in 30 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 16 and preferred in 14. The largest group is security engineer roles: 13 of 30.
- Required
- 16 of 30
- Of the roles that list Zero Trust
- Preferred
- 14 of 30
- Of the roles that list Zero Trust
- Largest group
- 13 of 30
- Security engineer
Roles that ask for Zero Trust
Roles listing Zero Trust, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.
| Role | Roles | Of the role's roles we read |
|---|---|---|
| Security engineer | 13 | 13 of 126 |
| Software engineer | 6 | 6 of 719 |
| Software architect | 4 | 4 of 32 |
| Site reliability engineer | 2 | 2 of 70 |
| Forward deployed engineer | 1 | 1 of 63 |
| Machine learning engineer | 1 | 1 of 79 |
| Mobile engineer | 1 | 1 of 38 |
| Platform engineer | 1 | 1 of 57 |
| QA engineer | 1 | 1 of 63 |
Companies that ask for it most
- Cloudflare2 roles
- Med-Metrix2 roles
- Okta2 roles
- Peraton2 roles
- Anthropic1 role
- CACI International Inc1 role
- MastarRec1 role
- Netskope1 role
- ShorePoint Inc1 role
- albo1 role
Asked alongside
Out of the 30 Zero Trust roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 19 of 30 |
| AWS | 13 of 30 |
| Infrastructure as Code | 13 of 30 |
| Kubernetes | 13 of 30 |
| CI/CD | 12 of 30 |
| Cybersecurity | 12 of 30 |
| Docker | 12 of 30 |
| Identity and Access Management | 12 of 30 |
| Terraform | 12 of 30 |
| Scripting | 11 of 30 |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| DevSecOps | 5 of 30 |
| AI | 4 of 30 |
| AWS | 4 of 30 |
| Cybersecurity | 4 of 30 |
| GCP | 4 of 30 |
| Incident Response | 4 of 30 |
| Infrastructure as Code | 4 of 30 |
| SOC 2 | 4 of 30 |
| Terraform | 4 of 30 |
| CI/CD | 3 of 30 |
Experience
Of the 18 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 18 of 18
- 2+ years
- 18 of 18
- 3+ years
- 18 of 18
- 5+ years
- 16 of 18
- 8+ years
- 9 of 18
- 10+ years
- 2 of 18
Degree
Of the 22 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 1 of 22
- Required, or experience instead
- 5 of 22
- Preferred
- 0 of 22
- Not mentioned
- 16 of 22
Pay and remote work
Of the 30 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 12 of 30
- Remote roles
- 19 of 30
How we count: 30 roles from 26 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology