City of Oklahoma City

The City of Oklahoma City is municipal government for Oklahoma's capital and largest city, serving a population exceeding 680,000 residents. Founded in 1889 and operating under a council-manager form of government, the city delivers a broad surface area of critical public services - police, fire, EMS, water and wastewater utilities, traffic control, public transit through EMBARK, and more. Each of those domains runs on operational technology, SCADA systems, and IT infrastructure that present distinct attack surfaces, from industrial control networks managing water treatment to the data systems backing emergency dispatch and municipal records. Cybersecurity roles here aren't theoretical. The threat model spans ransomware targeting public infrastructure, data exposure across citizen-facing portals, and the challenge of hardening legacy OT environments that weren't built for networked adversaries. The city's commitment to easing how residents navigate and obtain government services means expanding digital access - and expanding digital access means expanding the perimeter that needs defending. Careers span multiple departments, with cybersecurity work touching both enterprise IT and the operational technology layers that keep water flowing and traffic signals coordinated. This is public-sector security where the stakes are literal - utility outages, compromised emergency systems, and the trust of hundreds of thousands of residents who depend on services functioning without interruption.