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This role owns the CI/CD toolchain, infrastructure as code standards, and cloud operating practices spanning on-premises and multi-cloud environments. This role will work within the IS Department partnering with Software Engineers, Database Administrators, Infrastructure and Network teams, and Information Security.\nKey Responsibilities\nExpert understanding of CI/CD engineering; architect, implement, and maintain end-to-end pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps.\nDefine pipeline templates, environment promotion models, and release controls that scale across development teams.\nOwn infrastructure as code implementations and reusable Terraform modules for repeatable provisioning of cloud environments.\nArchitect and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure, including provisioning, auto-scaling, load balancing, network segmentation, and disaster recovery.\nDesign and operate deployment strategies including blue/green and canary releases.\nEstablish and report software delivery performance measures - deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and failed deployment recovery time - and drive improvement against documented baselines.\nDefine SLO, SLI, SLA, error budgets, and operational readiness criteria for application and platform services.\nDesign and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tooling such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, and native AWS and Azure monitoring.\nEmbed security into the delivery lifecycle (DevSecOps), including static and dynamic analysis, software composition analysis, and policy as code.\nImplement and govern identity and access management, secrets management, certificate lifecycle, and encryption across pipelines and environments.\nPartner with Infrastructure, Network, and Database teams on capacity planning, high availability, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery testing.\nDrive cloud cost and capacity optimization using FinOps practices; forecast consumption and report variance.\nMentor and coach mid-level and junior engineers; establish DevOps practices and drive adoption across teams.\nWork with IS Managers and Business Analysts to estimate and architect solutions.\nInvestigate and suggest new technologies and assess their viability and usefulness in current and future projects.\nDocument technical procedures, configurations, runbooks, and the architecture of implemented solutions.\nSupport security assessments, external audits such as SOC examinations, and requests from Internal Audit; produce control evidence aligned to NIST and state security standards.\nCoordinate backup and recovery strategies, policies, and disaster recovery procedures.\nContribute new viewpoints and strategies to stimulate growth.\nAbility to use and integrate approved AI solutions\nAfter hours support as needed, including participation in an on-call rotation\nOther duties as assigned\nFollow all applicable policies and procedures including all security policies.\nQualifications\nEducation & Experience\nRequired\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, CIS, MIS, Mathematics, Engineering or related field and a minimum of 6 years of hands-on experience across software delivery and infrastructure, including at least 2 years designing and operating CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure at production scale.\nDemonstrated ownership of platform architecture decisions and demonstrated leadership of incident response and root cause analysis.\nPreferred\nAWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, or HashiCorp Terraform Associate\nExperience migrating legacy or monolithic Java application workloads, for example WebSphere, to modern or cloud-native platforms\nDatabase exposure (Oracle RDBMS, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL) and understanding of entity relationship diagrams\nExpert understanding of Oracle database design; architect and maintain schemas, tables, indexes, partitions, views, materialized views, sequences, types, and packages supporting enterprise applications.\nSite reliability engineering practice including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and capacity modeling\nFinOps-informed cloud cost and capacity management\nWrite, optimize, and maintain complex PL/SQL including packages, stored procedures, functions, and triggers supporting core application logic and high-volume batch processing.\nPartner with Infrastructure Database Administrators on capacity planning, high availability, backup and recovery validation, and disaster recovery testing.\nPublic sector, pension administration, or financial services environment subject to SOC or NIST-based control requirements\nWaterfall, Agile, and other development methodologies\nHands-on experience with\nCI/CD tooling and pipeline design (GitHub and GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps)\nInfrastructure as code and configuration management primarily Terraform\nCloud platforms (AWS and Azure), including networking, identity, and disaster recovery design\nObservability and application performance management (Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, native cloud monitoring)\nScripting and programming (Bash, YAML, Java, PL/SQL)\nLinux and Windows server administration\nDevSecOps practice: vulnerability scanning, secrets management, IAM, and encryption\nQualities We Are Looking For\nConfident and mature skills\nThe highest level of character and integrity\nExecutive presence and strength of character\nExcellent interpersonal and relationship skills; the ability to deal with constituents at all levels\nPublic service mindset. You are dedicated to public service and TMRS’ mission to positively impact the lives of our members, retirees, and beneficiaries.\nIntellectual curiosity and determination. You are smart, intellectually curious, and grasp complex subjects quickly.\nTeam orientation. You bring integrity and a strong work ethic to your work. You value collegiality and kindness and can work with a wide variety of people. You value working as part of a team.\nEffective communicator. You listen carefully, ask questions effectively, and articulate your thoughts and ideas clearly and concisely.\nPhysical Requirements\nSedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force. Ability to perform the essential job functions safely and successfully consistent with federal, state, and local standards.\nTMRS Overview\nTexas Municipal Retirement System (TMRS) is a trusted partner to more than 940 cities across Texas, providing retirement, disability, and survivor benefits to over 260,000 public servants and their families. We are proud to be recognized as an example of fiduciary excellence through our management of more than $44 billion in Trust Fund assets.\nAt TMRS, every role supports our mission: providing secure lifetime income to our members. Our work gives back to communities across Texas, and we take pride in doing it with integrity, accountability, and a commitment to excellence.\nCompensation and Benefits\nStarting base salary (based on experience and qualifications)\nParticipation in TMRS pension plan, with a 2:1 organization match\nOptional participation in a 457(b) deferred compensation plan\nMedical, dental, and vision insurance at no cost to employees\nHybrid work opportunities; 12 paid holidays; generous leave\nModern, centrally located Austin office\nOnsite presence required a minimum of three days per week; remote work opportunities exist, but this is not a remote position\nTMRS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7617,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":6,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Hybrid work","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Pension & Sovereign Wealth Funds"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-21T00:04:43Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"Filed H-1B visas in the last two years","filings_12m":0,"filings_prev_12m":1,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":6,"expected_fill_days":28,"reasons":["conf:19","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-27T05:46:45Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/texas-municipal-retirement-system-senior-devops-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/texas-municipal-retirement-system-senior-devops-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-28T01:35:06Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1997,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-29T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":707420},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=707420"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ftexas-municipal-retirement-system-senior-devops-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Ftexas-municipal-retirement-system-senior-devops-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Ftexas-municipal-retirement-system-senior-devops-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/texas-municipal-retirement-system-senior-devops-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ftexas-municipal-retirement-system-senior-devops-engineer"}]}