Port San Antonio Companies Are Hiring Tech Talent
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If you’re new to San Antonio, or even if you are one of the 1.5 million people already living here, you may not be aware of the different kinds of companies hiring tech talent. For example, you may not know that San Antonio is among the world’s top 10 hubs for cybersecurity talent.
A big driver behind San Antonio’s many cybersecurity experts is Port San Antonio, the Alamo City’s largest commercial property at 1,900-acres. The former Kelly Air Force Base has been redeveloped into an innovation hub, complete with a world-class innovation center opening in early 2022.
Just southwest of downtown San Antonio, Port San Antonio’s campus is home to over 80 tenant companies leading in global tech-driven industries such as cybersecurity, aerospace, defense, and global logistics.
At press time, employers at the Port listed over 200 available jobs for people with advanced tech skills (data quoted from LinkedIn or company websites as of July 20). There are more job opportunities than represented by the shortlist below. For more information on tech job opportunities across San Antonio, check out Tech Talent Central, a hub for everything related to your tech job search in the Alamo city.
One of the 100 fastest-growing companies in San Antonio for 2019, CNF is a leading source of specialized cybersecurity expertise nationwide. Employees mostly work at security operations centers inside military bases, evaluating and integrating emerging technologies, designing secure architectures, providing rapid prototyping of defenses and other tools, and performing vulnerability assessments and penetration tests.
CNF’s growth means the company is hiring software engineers and developers, especially for its new lab. They opened their state-of-the-art cyber research and development (R&D) facility in 2019 and are hiring for all levels of software developers.
IPSecure is another locally-founded company growing rapidly to meet the global demand for cyber innovation. The company was founded in 2000 by former Air Force civil employee Jesse Rodriguez and now has more than 200 employees in locations around the U.S., including a large presence at Port San Antonio. They provide comprehensive network cybersecurity for government and commercial clients and cybersecurity software development, training and simulation, and risk management services.
Over the past five years, IPSecure has set up three facilities at Port San Antonio to support its rapidly growing military and private-sector client base. The company has close to 300 employees and is currently hiring for its new cyber range in San Antonio.
Novetta produces scalable advanced analytic and technical solutions to address challenges of national and global significance. Its disruptive technologies in machine learning, data analytics, full-spectrum cyber, open-source analytics, cloud engineering, DevSecOps, and multi-INT analytics are used by customers in the defense, intelligence community, and federal law enforcement sectors.
Novetta is headquartered in McLean, VA, with over 1,300 employees across the U.S. They are hiring cybersecurity experts and DevOps engineers at various levels for their Port San Antonio office.
Plus One Robotics is a San Antonio-based leading provider of vision software for industrial robots. The robotics startup developed software that trains three-dimensional camera-equipped robots using machine learning to teach them how to see and pick up items on an assembly line. Plus One’s three-dimensional and artificial intelligence or AI-powered vision software called Pick One works with any robot or gripper, which gives the internet-connected industrial robots the ability to deliver precise hand-eye coordination for a variety of warehouse tasks.
Plus One’s product development and ongoing expansion in the U.S. and Europe are driven by the global boom in e-commerce. They are hiring senior developers with AI expertise.
Technica provides advanced cybersecurity engineering, cyber training, quality assurance and testing, and round-the-clock operational support for the U.S. Air Force’s Cyberspace Vulnerability Assessment/Hunter (CVA/H) weapon system. The Virginia-based company opened a 12,000-square-foot multi-functional cyber facility at Port San Antonio in 2020 to support work on a $74 million Department of Defense contract Technica won in 2019.
The customized cyber facilities at 913 Billy Mitchell Blvd. include a systems integration lab, training facility, help desk, servers and infrastructure, and secure storage. Technica is hiring network engineers, full-stack developers, and systems administrators.
The featured image is of different robot models at Plus One Robotics. Photo credit: Iris Gonzalez/Startups San Antonio.