Every year, tens of thousands of service members trade in their uniform and seek employment as a civilian. As veterans, they bring leadership under pressure, discipline, adaptability, and mission-first teamwork into the workforce, which is particularly useful in tech. However, translating military titles and skills into job titles a hiring manager recognizes is difficult.
But these 13 companies stand out for how they recruit, train, onboard, and support veterans building careers in technology, from Fortune 500 tech giants to veteran-founded cybersecurity startups.
Location: Columbus, OH
Wells Fargo is one of the largest financial services companies in the U.S., and its technology expertise keeps the bank on the front lines of fintech. The company’s infrastructure supports more than 12 billion customer interactions a year through digital and mobile banking, information security, and big data analytics. For veterans interested in tech, that scale can open the door to a range of career paths, while dedicated military hiring resources help candidates connect their experience and skills with opportunities across the company.
Wells Fargo supports that transition with a Military Talent Strategic Sourcing Team and dedicated liaisons who recruit, coach, counsel, and advocate for military job seekers throughout the hiring process. Candidates can receive help with career planning, resumes, skills-gap analysis, and interview preparation. The company also offers several military-specific pathways, including its Department of Labor approved Julie Scammahorn National Military Apprenticeship Program, a Department of War approved SkillBridge Corporate Fellowship Program, Boots to Banking Initiative, and Homefront Heroes Hiring Program supporting Military Spouses. Strategic partnerships with Hiring Our Heroes and American Corporate Partners enhance support of the military community through mentorship, career development, and professional networking opportunities that foster long-term career success. Learn more about how Wells Fargo supports veterans.
Location: Mayfield Village, OH
Progressive disrupted the historically slow-moving insurance industry with technology. It was the first insurer to launch a website and later pioneered usage-based insurance through Snapshot. That same data-driven, tech-first mindset now shapes how the company quotes, sells, and manages insurance, fueling ongoing demand for engineering, data, and digital talent.
More than 2,300 Progressive employees have served or continue to serve in the military, supported by MILNET, the company's military employee resource group for veterans, reservists, and military families. Progressive explicitly encourages veterans to apply their leadership, project management, and teamwork experience to civilian roles instead of treating a lack of industry-specific background as a disqualifier. The company backs that message with concrete support: 100% differential pay for reservists called to active duty, continued medical benefits and dependents' coverage during deployment, and continued vacation accrual during military leave.
Location: Cleveland, OH
Major Midwest regional bank KeyBank has shown leadership and innovation in fintech. For example, its developer portal has APIs that let businesses embed banking services directly into their own software, and the company also has virtual account management tools and intelligent digital banking assistants.
KeyBank directly addresses how it translates military experience into civilian qualifications. Its recruiting FAQ tells veterans with military management and leadership experience to apply even without direct industry background, and states plainly that military leadership is weighed alongside other qualifications — not treated as a gap to overcome. The company also has a Veterans Networking Group and a formal mentoring program for military-connected employees that supports professional development, career growth, and the transition from military service to a corporate banking career. With the addition of tuition reimbursement and scholarship support, and dedicated recruitment initiatives aimed at veterans, service members, and military spouses are supported by KeyBank in their transition to the civilian workforce.
Location: Columbus, OH
Huntington Bank is a regional financial institution built around consumer and commercial banking. While it offers a local, hometown bank feel, its technology runs through nearly every part of its business — from digital banking tools to its Technology, Media & Telecom banking group, which works directly with cybersecurity, fintech, software, and data center companies. This gives Huntington a real connection to the broader tech ecosystem, not just a back-office IT function.
Huntington actively recruits veterans by offering meaningful career paths and resources for military families. Its support goes beyond hiring, with differential pay for activated service members, extended military leave alongside standard PTO, training pay to cover required military training periods, and dedicated deployment resources and travel benefits. A military business resource group helps new veteran hires build community and navigate the shift into corporate culture, and the company's "Welcome to All" culture and consistent placement on lists like Forbes' Best Employers for Military Veterans back up the commitment.
Location: Detroit, MI
GM is best known for Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC, and Buick, but its innovation portfolio spans electric vehicles, autonomous driving, connected services, and energy technology. Not only that, the company’s GM Defense applies the company's engineering and autonomy work directly to military mobility. As GM pushes toward a software-defined future, it's actively building out engineering, cybersecurity, and AI teams alongside its manufacturing base.
GM's Military Community program helps service members and their families translate military leadership, technical expertise, and work ethic into civilian careers, backed by an active Veterans Employee Resource Group (VERG) that provides mentorship, onboarding support, and networking. Its Shifting Gears program offers 12 weeks of technical training with priority access to dealership technician roles, and its recruiting teams work through partnerships like Hiring Our Heroes to map military specialties into corporate engineering, software, and cybersecurity tracks — not just the shop floor. GM has earned "Best for Vets" recognition from Military Times for the breadth of this effort.
Location: Dearborn, MI
Ford has been moving people and goods for more than 120 years, and today's transformation into electric vehicles, connected technology, and advanced manufacturing requires talent across engineering, data, software, and operations. That shift creates a growing need for exactly the kind of technical and operational experience many veterans bring.
Ford has employed veterans since 1919, and its military careers program identifies leadership, discipline, and technical skills as directly transferable to civilian roles, spotlighting high-priority jobs and employee transition stories. It's a Gold-level certified Veteran-Friendly Employer, and its bridge from service to civilian tech careers runs through DoD SkillBridge internships, the Army PaYS guaranteed-interview program, and its internal Veteran Network Group (VETNG) for mentorship and peer support. Veterans land in IT, networking, cybersecurity, and automated validation engineering roles that draw on experience with complex electronic and signal systems, and the Ford-Lincoln Veteran Careers Program pairs digital eLearning with hands-on training centers for advanced vehicle systems.
Location: Englewood, CO
TTEC builds customer experience technology that combines human support with AI, analytics, and cloud-based CX platforms across customer engagement, technical support, fraud prevention, and CRM. The company describes its purpose as bringing humanity to business through technology, which shapes both its product and its approach to hiring.
The company’s Veterans & Military Spouse Jobs program explicitly recognizes leadership, performing under pressure, and teamwork as strengths veterans bring to the role. Its talent acquisition team helps map military backgrounds from any branch to civilian qualifications, and the company leans into remote and flexible scheduling — a meaningful benefit for veterans and military spouses navigating relocation. TTEC hires heavily into tech-oriented customer support, desktop troubleshooting, and digital assistance roles that require only foundational IT interest, then backs new hires with paid training and a track record of internal promotion into quality assurance, IT analysis, and specialized digital operations, making it a realistic entry point into tech for veterans without a traditional technical background.
Location: Round Rock, TX
Dell is one of the world's major technology companies, with a portfolio that now spans client devices, servers, networking, storage, and infrastructure built for the AI era. Its stated purpose — driving human progress through technology — plays out across a workforce that touches nearly every layer of enterprise IT.
Dell has built a comprehensive veteran transition model for new entrants into civilian life. The company’s Veteran Integration Success Program (VISP) is paired with partnerships like DoD SkillBridge and the Hiring Our Heroes Corporate Fellowship Program, which offers fellowships and hands-on corporate training before service members formally exit the military. Its careers portal includes a military translation search tool that matches MOS/AFSC codes directly to open roles, and the Boomi Veteran Academy offers specialized, self-paced training tracks toward industry-recognized tech certifications. An active Veterans Employee Resource Group provides ongoing peer mentorship, and Dell extends its transition support to military spouses as well, addressing nearly every stage of the journey, from skills-matching through long-term workplace community.
Location: Austin, TX
Oracle is one of the most established enterprise technology companies in the world, built around databases, enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, and AI at massive scale. That scale creates deep demand for cloud, data, and infrastructure talent, and Oracle has built a technology-specific pathway to fill it with veteran talent.
Its military and veteran programs include Department of Defense SkillBridge fellowships with the potential to become full-time roles, a 12-week Washington Vets2Tech program covering cloud infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, and data center operations, and the Oracle Veteran Academy, which trains participants for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure roles. A quarter-long veteran internship adds hands-on experience and onboarding support, while Oracle’s Military Affiliated Veteran Employee Network provides mentoring, networking, and leadership opportunities.
Location: Beavercreek, OH
SierTeK is a Dayton-area technology and professional services company providing IT, cybersecurity, software development, enterprise architecture, and research services, primarily to federal and Department of Defense customers. Its work spans mission-critical systems for agencies including the Air Force Research Laboratory and Wright-Patterson AFB, putting technical talent directly in service of defense missions.
The company actively recruits and values military veterans across its technical, administrative, and program management roles. As a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB), SierTek's leadership understands the transition back to civilian life. The company offers operational flexibility (scheduling practices designed to accommodate the unique obligations of veterans, active reservists, and military families), fair compensation, and support systems tailored to the realities of transitioning service members or those with ongoing reserve commitments. For veterans, that means walking into an organization where leadership, mission focus, and defense-sector fluency are shared experiences rather than something to explain in an interview.
Location: Dayton, OH
Oscar Six Security is a cybersecurity firm that brings an enterprise- and defense-grade security discipline into organizations that could not otherwise afford it, most commonly small businesses, schools, and local governments. Its services include security assessments, attack simulations, and other defensive work aimed at showing smaller organizations exactly what an attacker would see.
Oscar Six was started by veterans who spent their careers securing critical military assets, including founders holding CISSP and CISSO certifications and more than 30 years of combined IT and security operations experience. It's a small, lean team, so formal multi-month onboarding programs aren't part of the model; what veterans get instead is direct mentorship from founders who understand the transition firsthand and broad, hands-on exposure to real security tools rather than a narrow corporate lane.
Location: Howell, MI
Karhu Cyber is a veteran-owned cybersecurity provider focused on protecting small and mid-size businesses and local governments with 24/7 security operations, threat detection and response, vulnerability management, penetration testing, and virtual CISO services. Its mission is to become the security team smaller organizations could never build on their own.
Karhu's leadership built its security practices defending government and defense networks against real adversaries, and that discipline shapes how the company approaches every client engagement. As a small team (11–50 employees) founded in 2022, Karhu offers veterans direct mentorship from leadership rather than layers of corporate bureaucracy. Its day-to-day work — SOC monitoring, incident response, penetration testing — maps closely onto military cyber and intelligence career fields, offering an opportunity for those with specialized military cybersecurity experience to apply their skills directly.
Location: Remote
Shift5 builds operational intelligence and cybersecurity technology for some of the world's most critical transportation and defense systems — planes, trains, and tanks. Founded in 2019 by former U.S. Army officers who helped establish Army Cyber Command and pioneered weapons-system cyber assessments, Shift5 turns previously unused operational technology data into actionable intelligence that improves both performance and cyber resilience.
Military experience is part of Shift5's DNA, not an add-on. The company's mission explicitly includes protecting the service members who defend the country and securing the systems the economy depends on, and it offers a DoD SkillBridge internship for transitioning service members alongside open technical roles in data science, data engineering, field engineering, hardware engineering, and systems integration. Because leadership and core teams come out of the military themselves, veterans joining Shift5 find a workplace that speaks their language from day one — familiarity with defense systems and field operations is treated as an asset.