Why Texas Association of School Boards
FY2024 · Form 990Its mission and biggest programs, as filedSupports Texas school districts through advocacy, leadership training, and administrative services, including cooperative purchasing, to promote educational excellence and reduce government burdens.
- Tasb risk management fund - through a service agreement, tasb provides overall management and program administration to the tasb risk management fund (fund), an intergovernmental risk sharing pool for Texas School districts and other educational-related governmental entities. The fund offers…$31.3M spent in FY2024
- Cooperative purchasing - the local government purchasing cooperative (purchasing cooperative) is an administrative agency of cooperating local governmental entities organized under the Texas interlocal cooperation act. Through a service agreement with the purchasing cooperative, tasb provides administrative services relating to…$12.8M spent in FY2024
- Tasb offers School districts and other governmental entities the opportunity to participate in a wide array of programs and services that lessen the burdens of government. Basic member services to Boards of Texas School districts include, but are not limited…$9.1M spent in FY2024
Before you apply
FY2023 · Form 990Independent: from IRS data, not the orgAbout the role
The org's own posting, as writtenPrincipal Network Engineer Why Texas Association of School Boards Established in 1949, TASB has grown alongside Texas to meet the evolving needs of the school boards it serves. Today, 500 employees work together to promote educational excellence for Texas public schoolchildren. TASB offers high-quality services that help 1,023 school districts operate more efficiently and effectively in serving more than 5.5 million public school students statewide. We feel privileged to work alongside talented team members who are passionate about putting people first and empowering local school district leaders. The TASB team is adaptable and responsive to the needs of our members.
Our culture is reflected in TASB Together, which guides the way we work and encourages employees to learn, grow, and contribute in alignment with our TASB Mission: The Texas Association of School Boards promotes educational excellence for Texas schoolchildren through the advancement of good governance, valuable learning experience for school leaders, and public school advocacy. We also provide high-quality services and programs to school districts – helping them operate more efficiently and effectively .
As part of its commitment to employee growth and development, TASB offers competitive pay and rich benefits, including a 2:1 match of retirement contributions up to 5% after one year, (which means that if you contribute 5% to the plan, TASB will contribute 10%), onsite daycare, onsite gym, wellness program, tuition reimbursement, remote and hybrid work options for certain roles, flexible schedules, and more. Every role at TASB thoughtfully complements our commitment to supporting school boards and championing public education across Texas. If you consider your work exceptional and share the values that help TASB support school boards, keep reading!
About You As a Principal Network Engineer, you will serve as TASB's most senior individual-contributor authority on enterprise networking, owning both the architecture and the hands-on engineering of a multi-entity, hybrid Azure/on-premises environment with compliance-sensitive segmentation requirements. You will build the multi-year network modernization roadmap and personally implement it, leading TASB's platform migration from Cisco to Juniper while keeping the existing Cisco environment fully stable throughout the transition.
A Typical Day Own and evolve enterprise network architecture and the multi-year technology roadmap, including platform standards, topology design, and lifecycle planning for switching, routing, and security infrastructure Lead the design, planning, and execution of the Cisco-to-Juniper platform migration, including risk assessment, cutover planning, and post-migration validation Collaborate with the Information Security team on network security policy, firewall rule management, and traffic flow analysis, and mentor supporting network staff If you’re still reading, we’d love to meet you! How You’ll Make an Impact…
About Texas Association of School Boards
From its Form 990- Budget $103.8M · Education
- Staff 564 · founded 1999
- Pays its leaders $238K–$576K (12 reported)
- Open jobs 5 · Jobs at Texas Association of School Boards · Full 990 report