Cybersecurity Operations Engineer
The University of Texas at Austin2 hours ago
Austin, TX, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$115k - $115k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and securely operate shared DevOps infrastructure across on-premise and cloud environments.
- Configure, harden, and maintain systems using configuration-management tooling such as Ansible.
- Tune systems for scale, performance, and resilience.
- Build and operate secured, sandboxed environments for AI agents and automated workflows.
- Integrate AI tooling into development and operations workflows.
- Advise on infrastructure and service architecture and security reviews.
- Create documentation, runbooks, and reusable patterns for team knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with UTISO and the Regional Security Operations Center to support enterprise cybersecurity operations.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship, U.S. residency, or officially recognized asylee status, plus eligibility to access classified information as required by the project.
- At least 2 years of experience building and integrating systems with enterprise source-code management and automation tooling, including Python and/or Bash scripting and Ansible.
- At least 4 years of Linux system administration experience or advanced understanding of operating systems and common operating environments.
- Demonstrated fluency with modern AI tooling, such as coding agents or LLM-assisted development workflows, and experience or experimentation with AI in operations or security contexts.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to coordinate with multiple groups and manage engagement scope.
- General networking and security troubleshooting knowledge, including firewalls, routing, and NAT.
- Interest in or affinity for information security.
- Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, containerization and orchestration, cloud security posture management, secrets and credential lifecycle management, AI-agent infrastructure, monitoring and observability, clustered or highly available systems, and securing systems at scale.
Benefits
- Hybrid, remote-eligible position based in Austin, Texas, with flexible work arrangements and typically a 40-hour work week.
- Health premiums are covered at 100% for employees and 50% for family members, with voluntary vision, dental, life, and disability insurance options.
- Generous paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays.
- Teacher Retirement System of Texas defined-benefit retirement plan with employer matching funds, plus optional 403(b) and 457(b) plans.
- Flexible spending accounts for medical and childcare expenses.
- Free LinkedIn Learning access and professional conference opportunities.
- Exclusive incentive pay program for qualifying UTISO employees.
- Tuition assistance and employee discounts, including athletic tickets.
- Free access to UT Austin libraries and museums and free rides on UT Shuttle and Austin CapMetro buses with a staff ID.
- Employees must maintain internet service and a mobile phone with voice and data plans when required for work.