Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Summary

The Senior DevOps Engineer is an expert in the design, automation, security, and reliability of the platforms that deliver TMRS applications. 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.

Key Responsibilities

- Expert understanding of CI/CD engineering; architect, implement, and maintain end-to-end pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps.

- Define pipeline templates, environment promotion models, and release controls that scale across development teams.

- Own infrastructure as code implementations and reusable Terraform modules for repeatable provisioning of cloud environments.

- Architect and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure, including provisioning, auto-scaling, load balancing, network segmentation, and disaster recovery.

- Design and operate deployment strategies including blue/green and canary releases.

- Establish 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.

- Define SLO, SLI, SLA, error budgets, and operational readiness criteria for application and platform services.

- Design and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tooling such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, and native AWS and Azure monitoring.

- Embed security into the delivery lifecycle (DevSecOps), including static and dynamic analysis, software composition analysis, and policy as code.

- Implement and govern identity and access management, secrets management, certificate lifecycle, and encryption across pipelines and environments.

- Partner with Infrastructure, Network, and Database teams on capacity planning, high availability, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery testing.

- Drive cloud cost and capacity optimization using FinOps practices; forecast consumption and report variance.

- Mentor and coach mid-level and junior engineers; establish DevOps practices and drive adoption across teams.

- Work with IS Managers and Business Analysts to estimate and architect solutions.

- Investigate and suggest new technologies and assess their viability and usefulness in current and future projects.

- Document technical procedures, configurations, runbooks, and the architecture of implemented solutions.

- Support security assessments, external audits such as SOC examinations, and requests from Internal Audit; produce control evidence aligned to NIST and state security standards.

- Coordinate backup and recovery strategies, policies, and disaster recovery procedures.

- Contribute new viewpoints and strategies to stimulate growth.

- Ability to use and integrate approved AI solutions

- After hours support as needed, including participation in an on-call rotation

- Other duties as assigned

- Follow all applicable policies and procedures including all security policies.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

Required

- Bachelor’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.

- Demonstrated ownership of platform architecture decisions and demonstrated leadership of incident response and root cause analysis.

Preferred

- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, or HashiCorp Terraform Associate

- Experience migrating legacy or monolithic Java application workloads, for example WebSphere, to modern or cloud-native platforms

- Database exposure (Oracle RDBMS, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL) and understanding of entity relationship diagrams

- Expert understanding of Oracle database design; architect and maintain schemas, tables, indexes, partitions, views, materialized views, sequences, types, and packages supporting enterprise applications.

- Site reliability engineering practice including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and capacity modeling

- FinOps-informed cloud cost and capacity management

- Write, optimize, and maintain complex PL/SQL including packages, stored procedures, functions, and triggers supporting core application logic and high-volume batch processing.

- Partner with Infrastructure Database Administrators on capacity planning, high availability, backup and recovery validation, and disaster recovery testing.

- Public sector, pension administration, or financial services environment subject to SOC or NIST-based control requirements

- Waterfall, Agile, and other development methodologies

Hands-on experience with

- CI/CD tooling and pipeline design (GitHub and GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps)

- Infrastructure as code and configuration management primarily Terraform

- Cloud platforms (AWS and Azure), including networking, identity, and disaster recovery design

- Observability and application performance management (Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, native cloud monitoring)

- Scripting and programming (Bash, YAML, Java, PL/SQL)

- Linux and Windows server administration

- DevSecOps practice: vulnerability scanning, secrets management, IAM, and encryption

Qualities We Are Looking For

- Confident and mature skills

- The highest level of character and integrity

- Executive presence and strength of character

- Excellent interpersonal and relationship skills; the ability to deal with constituents at all levels

- Public service mindset. You are dedicated to public service and TMRS’ mission to positively impact the lives of our members, retirees, and beneficiaries.

- Intellectual curiosity and determination. You are smart, intellectually curious, and grasp complex subjects quickly.

- Team 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.

- Effective communicator. You listen carefully, ask questions effectively, and articulate your thoughts and ideas clearly and concisely.

Physical Requirements

Sedentary 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.

TMRS Overview

Texas 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.

At 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.

Compensation and Benefits

- Starting base salary (based on experience and qualifications)

- Participation in TMRS pension plan, with a 2:1 organization match

- Optional participation in a 457(b) deferred compensation plan

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance at no cost to employees

- Hybrid work opportunities; 12 paid holidays; generous leave

- Modern, centrally located Austin office

- Onsite presence required a minimum of three days per week; remote work opportunities exist, but this is not a remote position

TMRS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.