Description

Overview:

The Texas Municipal Retirement System (TMRS) is a statewide public retirement system established in 1948 to provide retirement, disability and death benefits to employees and retirees of participating Texas cities. TMRS manages $40 billion in assets for 938 Texas cities. TMRS provides competitive compensation, a pension plan, medical, dental and vision insurance provided at no cost for employees, flexible scheduling, twelve paid holidays, a modern and centrally located office, a generous leave program, and remote work opportunities.

Job Summary: 

Texas Municipal Retirement System (TMRS) is seeking a Senior Security Engineer. The position will report to the Director of Information Security. Primary responsibilities include deploying, maintaining, and continuously improving security technologies. Additional responsibilities include escalated incident response, monitoring, control compliance, and informing enterprise architecture.

Salary: $140,000-160,000 dependent on experience and qualifications. 

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 3^rd 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.

Qualifications

Education, Experience & Skills: 

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.).

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.