Missoula, Montana, US (On-site)1 open job
Member-owned telecom cooperative (est. 1954, Missoula, MT) providing voice, broadband/fiber, network, and managed services including managed SASE and cybersecurity across Western Montana, Idaho, and the Pacific Northwest.
Blackfoot Communications is a member-owned telecommunications cooperative founded in 1954 by a group of ranchers near Clinton, Montana to bring voice service to rural communities that larger carriers had passed over. Seventy-plus years on, the operation has widened well past telephony: broadband and fiber, network services, and managed technology for businesses across Western Montana, Eastern Idaho, and the broader Pacific Northwest. Headquarters sit in Missoula, Montana. The cooperative structure is the same, and so is the service territory logic - the company still builds for places where the economics of connectivity don't pencil out for national providers.
The security surface here is infrastructure-first. Blackfoot runs broadband and fiber networks, sells voice services, and delivers business connectivity to a customer base that spans residential subscribers, small businesses, schools, and regional institutions - a threat model that mixes legacy telecom exposure with modern managed-service obligations. The managed services portfolio includes managed SASE, backed by a deployed Cato Private Point of Presence, plus cybersecurity solutions sold alongside traditional voice services for business customers. The work spans telecommunications, broadband/fiber infrastructure, voice, network services, managed services, and security tooling.
Scale is measured in decades and physical plant rather than headcount: over 70 years in operation and a multi-year fiber upgrade project extending high-speed connectivity to underserved communities. The operating posture is long-horizon and locally anchored - the company supports schools, organizations, and causes throughout Western Montana and Eastern Idaho, and frames its mission around rural connectivity for the communities it was founded to serve. For security practitioners, that translates to protecting real regional infrastructure with a constituency of members rather than shareholders.
