Who We Are
The Texas Municipal Retirement System (TMRS) is an award-winning statewide public retirement system that provides retirement, disability, and death benefits to more than 220,000 employees, retirees, and their beneficiaries of 938 participating Texas cities. TMRS staff is passionate about providing Texas public servants, who have contributed so much to their communities and improved the lives of so many, with a secure lifetime monthly retirement benefit.
Duties/Responsibilities
- Deploy and maintain security technology including vendor management, installation and configuration, ongoing maintenance, and continuous improvement.
- Research and stay informed of information security technology and best practices to advise on the selection, deployment, integrations and continuous improvement of solutions.
- Test, implement, deploy, maintain, and administer cybersecurity infrastructure hardware and software.
- Respond to escalated security/fraud events and requests from Internal Audit as needed.
- Perform security reviews, identify gaps in security architecture, and develop security risk management plans.
- Develop appropriate controls and mitigations.
- Conduct or support 3rd party penetration tests and vulnerability assessments.
- Coordinate with other teams to manage configurations for security purposes.
- Perform targeted threat-hunting activities as requested.
- Assist in the development of security-related policies.
- Develop and document standard operating procedures.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualities We Are Looking For
- A Passion for Public Service. You are passionate about public service and TMRS’ mission to positively impact the lives of our Members.
- Intellectual curiosity and determination. You are smart, intellectually curious, and grasp complex subjects quickly.
- A Great Colleague. You are a person of integrity, work hard, value collegiality, and can work with a wide variety of people. You value working as part of a team.
- Effective communicator. You listen carefully, ask questions effectively, and articulate your ideas clearly and concisely.
- You are a neighbor. You live within a commutable distance to TMRS’ office and will work in the office at least three days per week.
Education And Experience
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information security, or related field and a minimum of ten years dedicated system engineering experience, plus hands-on experience with:
- New and emerging cybersecurity in information technology
- Firewall, IPS, WAF, SIEM, and EDR technologies
- Network access, identity and access management.
- Defense in depth and zero-trust architectures
- Cloud security tools and concepts
- Designing countermeasures to security risks.
- System, network, and OS hardening techniques.
- Vulnerability scans and recognize vulnerabilities in security systems.
- Network security architecture concepts including topology, protocols, components, layer 2/3 network segmentation, and principles.
Additional applicable industry experience may be substituted for college degree.
Preferred Qualifications
- CISSP or CISM certification.
- Detailed oriented with excellent time management and organizational skills
- At least one additional vendor certification (i.e. Microsoft, Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet, etc.).
What You Can Expect
In addition to the opportunity to contribute to a secure future retirement for hundreds of thousands of Texas city employees, you will receive competitive compensation, a pension plan, medical, dental and vision insurance provided at no cost, flexible scheduling, twelve paid holidays, a modern and centrally located office, free parking, tuition reimbursement, training opportunities, a generous leave program, and remote work capabilities among other benefits.
Compensation range is: $140,000 - $160,000 dependent on experience and qualifications.
Physical Requirements
Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force. Ability to safely, and successfully, perform the essential job functions consistent with federal, state, and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.