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Tanium

Executive Protection Agent - FOG

Addison, TX · On-site

As an Executive Protection Agent, you will join the Executive Protection Field Operations Group, a team of motivated and highly skilled professionals who provide close protection and estate security ...

Tanium

Executive Protection Agent - FOG

Addison, TX · On-site

As an Executive Protection Agent, you will join the Executive Protection Field Operations Group, a team of motivated and highly skilled professionals who provide close protection and estate security ...

Tanium

Executive Protection Agent - FOG

Addison, TX · On-site

As an Executive Protection Agent, you will join the Executive Protection Field Operations Group, a team of motivated and highly skilled professionals who provide close protection and estate security ...

Crisis24

Executive Protection Field Agent

Houston, TX · On-site

$140K - $150K/yr

Your Mission As an Executive Protection Agent, you will be a critical component of our executive protection and emergency response framework. You will operate with precision and professionalism ...

Crisis24

Executive Protection Field Agent

Houston, TX · On-site

Your Mission As an Executive Protection Agent, you will be a critical component of our executive protection and emergency response framework. You will operate with precision and professionalism ...

Crisis24

Executive Protection Field Agent

Austin, TX · On-site

$45 - $60/hr

Your Mission As an Executive Protection Agent, you will be a critical component of our executive protection and emergency response framework. You will operate with precision and professionalism ...

GardaWorld

Executive Protection Field Agent

Austin, TX · On-site

Your Mission As an Executive Protection Agent, you will be a critical component of our executive protection and emergency response framework. You will operate with precision and professionalism ...

Walmart

Asset Protection Customer Host

Beaumont, TX · On-site

$14 - $27/hr

Hourly Wage: $14 - $27 per/hour *The actual hourly rate will equal or exceed the required minimum wage applicable to the job location. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance ...

Zona Facta

Level 3 ATM Armed Security Officer

Dallas, TX · On-site

$17.50 - $22/hr

Level III ATM Protection Agent Zona Facta Collective is seeking qualified Level III Armed Security Agents to support multiple security contracts across Texas. The immediate need is for agents to ...

Career Connections Inc

Protective Agent

Houston, TX · On-site

$75K - $139K/yr

Up to $75,000 We are expanding our national protective security division and seeking disciplined, professional individuals ready to operate in high-level security environments. This role offers the ...

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As of Jul 7, 2026, the average hourly pay for protection agent in Texas is $28.09, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $21.97 and $36.97 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are Protection Agents?

Protection Agents are security professionals responsible for ensuring the safety and security of individuals, often high-profile clients such as executives, celebrities, or dignitaries. Their duties may include assessing threats, planning secure routes, monitoring surroundings, and intervening in emergencies. They often work in both overt and covert roles and may travel with clients or secure locations in advance. Protection Agents must have strong situational awareness, physical fitness, and specialized training in defensive tactics and emergency response. The role can be demanding, requiring flexibility and discretion in a variety of environments.

What are the typical challenges faced by a Protection Agent when working in dynamic environments?

Protection Agents often work in fast-paced and unpredictable settings, such as public events or during travel with clients. One of the main challenges is quickly assessing and adapting to changing security risks while maintaining discretion and professionalism. Agents must stay vigilant, communicate effectively with team members, and use situational awareness to anticipate and mitigate threats. Balancing proactive security measures with the client's comfort and privacy is also a key aspect of the role.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a Protection Agent, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Protection Agent, you need expertise in risk assessment, surveillance, and emergency response, often backed by law enforcement or military experience and relevant security certifications. Familiarity with security technologies, communication devices, and incident management systems is typically required. Strong situational awareness, discretion, and excellent interpersonal skills set top professionals apart in this field. These skills are crucial for ensuring the safety of clients, maintaining confidentiality, and effectively responding to dynamic security threats.
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Executive Protection Agent - FOG

Executive Protection Agent - FOG

Tanium

Addison, TX • On-site

Full-time

Re-posted 23 days ago

Job description

The Basics:
As an Executive Protection Agent, you will join the Executive Protection Field Operations Group, a team of motivated and highly skilled professionals who provide close protection and estate security for the CEO's immediate family, the Executive Chairman, and other Tanium Executives as needed. Our ideal candidate will be a well-trained and experienced security professional that is proactive, motivated, and customer service oriented. It is imperative that agents taking this role practice consistent good judgement and maintain the trust of their leadership and those they protect.
What We're Looking For:
  • BA/BS and/or equivalent work experience preferred
  • Industry Experience: Government, Military, Law Enforcement, and/or 5+ years in a security role required
  • Specialty training or experience in Executive Protection and Estate Security required
  • Industry/Discipline Specific Credentials:
    • CPR/First Aid/AED required
    • Valid Driver's License
    • TX CPL required
  • Preferred Job Qualifications:
    • Successful completion of a recognized Executive Protection Course preferred
    • Successful completion of a recognized Tactical/Evasive Driving Course preferred
    • Emergency Medical Technician (BLS (Basic Life Support)) preferred
    • Demonstrated dependability, positive attitude, and good attendance
    • Authorized to work in the United States
    • Water Safety/Open water rescue/ lifeguard training to be completed within 90 days of hire

What You'll Do:
  • Incorporate Tanium Mission and Values into all decisions and actions
  • Responsible for making operational decisions that enhance safety for the principals
  • Support the Global Security mission, Executive Protection details, and Tanium Executives if needed
  • Demonstrate effective communication with the principals, visitors, and other team members
  • Be accountable for their decisions, actions, and communications
  • Responsible for safeguarding the CEO, his family, and their private property located at the residence
  • Promote and establish effective working relationships with principals, staff, and team members
  • Support EPFOG new hire and EPPAG cross-training
  • Collaborate on the development of EPFOG standard operating procedures
  • Maintain and input all pertinent info all security logs
  • Effectively perform transports for CEO's family
  • Ensuring EPFOG vehicles are maintained
  • Receive, document, and communicate all deliveries
  • Serve as the primary point of contact in place of EPFOG Team Lead, when needed
  • Ready and able upon request to support other teams within the Global Security mission to help safeguard Tanium's people, assets, and reputation
  • Responsible for providing transportation for the CEO's family upon request
  • Agents must always conduct themselves with Tanium's best interests
  • Other duties as assigned by Head of Executive Protection and Operations
  • Travel in support of the EPPAG
  • Monitor, Track, and assist with all movements of principals
  • Occasionally operate and assist in maintaining CEO boat
  • Occasionally perform duties in a corporate office environment

Core Competencies:
  • Ability to adapt and overcome technical and physical obstacles as they arise.
  • Demonstrates initiative and motivation
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Team player
  • Person of high ethics and integrity
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
  • Positive, can-do attitude is necessary

Tanium Competencies:
  • Demonstrates initiative and motivation
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Team player
  • Person of high ethics and integrity
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment

Work Requirements:
  • Travel Requirements: 10%
  • Mental Abilities
    • Analytical abilities: ability to analyze problem situations in depth; ability to show a probing mind.
    • Number facility: the individual must be able to perform basic mathematical calculations at a minimum.
    • Precision to detail: it is necessary that the individual be precise, detail-oriented, and exact.
    • Flexibility: the ability to juggle several projects simultaneously, to cope successfully with diversity and complexity, to integrate seemingly unrelated data, and to reduce complex notions into relatively simple terms.
    • Written and oral communication skills: ability to write memos, letters, and reports in clear, concise fashion with appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and word usage; ability to communicate effectively with superiors, peers, subordinates, and others on a one-on-one basis, using appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and word usage; includes clarity, organization of thought, and expressiveness are all part of this dimension.
    • Management skills: ability to achieve results through subordinates; ability to successfully recruit, conduct selection interviews, place people, give clear direction, train, develop people for promotion, build cohesive and effective teams, monitor performance thoroughly, give constructive and ongoing performance feedback, conduct annual performance appraisals
  • Physical & Mental Abilities and Demands
    • Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for Sedentary Work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for Light Work.
    • Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
    • Heavy work: Exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
    • Very heavy work: Exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
    • Balancing: maintain body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. This factor is important if the amount and kind of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
    • Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
    • Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
    • Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
    • Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
    • Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances.
    • Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
    • Use of Fingers/Hands: Typing, or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling.
    • Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detail or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
    • Hearing: Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machine parts.
    • Repetitive motions: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
    • Vision: The incumbent is required to distinguish between true colors, perceive depth, and partial field of vision is required at a minimum for the position.
  • Work Environment
    • The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.
    • The worker is subject to outside environmental conditions: NO effective protection from weather.
    • The worker is subject to both environmental conditions: Activities occur inside and outside.
    • The worker is subject to noise: There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level.
    • The worker is subject to hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.

About Tanium
Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. Driven by AI and real-time endpoint intelligence, Tanium Autonomous IT empowers IT and security teams to make their organizations unstoppable.
Many of the world's leading organizations trust Tanium's single, unified platform for endpoint management and security to innovate faster, stay resilient and move business forward with confidence, at scale. To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business - visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
On a mission. Together.
At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.
As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it's imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.
Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.
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Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.
Tanium is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected Veteran status, or other legally protected categories. If you require a reasonable accommodation in searching for a job opening, completing an application, interviewing, or completing any pre-employment testing or requirements, please contact accommodations@tanium.com. For more information refer to the "Know Your Rights" poster which is available here - https://www.eeoc.gov/poster.
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