State departments and agencies have opened multiple recruitments in recent days that are of interest to those in the IT community.
The California Department of Technology is seeking a devops engineering/solutions architect (IT specialist II) to oversee “technical support for all OET (Office of Enterprise Technology) and other business requests, including DevSecOps Consulting, Infrastructure/Configuration Management, Automation for ‘Build and Release’ Engineering, database and data," according to the job posting. The architect “optimizes and applies architecture solutions for the benefit of the overall organization (and) plays a major role in advising management or formulating information technology strategy within the organization, with a strong focus on DevOps principles.” Additional details about the position are available in the Duty Statement. The position has a monthly salary range of $7,365 to $9,869, and the application deadline is Oct. 10.
California Correctional Health Care Services is seeking an Office 365 systems engineer (IT specialist II) who has “in-depth knowledge of leadership and expertise” and can perform a wide variety of complex tasks in support of the O365 Security Operations/System Engineering domain. The engineer will optimize and apply architecture solutions and play “a major role in advising management or formulating IT strategy and policy within the organization,” according to the job posting. Additional details are posted in the Duty Statement. The position has a monthly salary range of $7,365 to $10,165, and the application deadline is Oct. 9.
The California Department of Public Health is seeking a systems management engineer (IT specialist I) to lead “desktop-related hardware/software implementation, systems management, analyzing business impact and exposure based on emerging security vulnerabilities, and recommend technological solutions for management review.” According to the job posting, “the ITS I prioritize(s) work, resolves the advanced technical hardware/software and connectivity issues, and provides an advanced level of support.” The position has a monthly salary range of $5,562 to $8,999, and the application deadline is Oct. 9.
The State Controller’s Office is recruiting for an IT supervisor I to “lead and supervise a team of six technical staff in support of the State Controller’s Office (SCO) Production Operations (PO) unit,” according to the job posting on the office website. “The PO unit is responsible for processing the State Controller’s Office Employment History, Payroll, and Financial batch systems from a dedicated computer, which is located at the California Department of Technology.” The monthly salary range is $6,606 to $8,852, and the application deadline is Oct. 16.
The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) is seeking a production services unit supervisor (IT supervisor II) to help manage the section that “performs application program updates, batch processing, job setup, production turnover, application monitoring and verification and output distribution,” according to the job description. “The section serves as the single point of contact between CalPERS customers and IT services.” Desirable qualifications include customer service experience, two years of IT batch scheduler experience, IT project/process Lead Role experience and documentation/procedure manual creation experience. The position has a monthly salary range of $7,263 to $9,731, and the application deadline is Oct. 12.
The Department of Fish and Wildlife is recruiting for IT procurement and asset management technician (IT technician) to provide support with IT centralized purchasing, act as IT buyer for the department using the FI$Cal system and ensure that all IT procurements follow policies and procedures, according to the job posting. The technician will also work with the IT procurement team to maintain and implement internal IT procurement procedures and policies to streamline the IT procurement process. The position has a monthly salary range of $5,562 to $8,999, and the application deadline is Oct. 12.
The California Public Utilities Commission is seeking a section chief for client solutions (IT manager I) to be responsible for Client Solution Section operations including Service Desk, Desktop Software Distribution, Audio/Visual (A/V) Production Services and Asset Management, according to the job posting. “The incumbent will plan, organize, direct, and control the activities of Technical Support analysts including, but not limited to, intake and processing of user IT service requests, and the installation, maintenance, repair, and servicing of computer hardware, software technologies and audio/visual conferencing, with a level of leadership that ensures services are delivered timely and professionally.” The position has a monthly salary range of $8,016 to $10,742, and the application deadline is Oct. 5.
The Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) is seeking a network specialist (IT specialist I) with experience in installing, monitoring and maintaining complex WAN/LAN; troubleshooting, analyzing and optimizing performance of network and security hardware and software; network equipment and software vendor support; and with servers, switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, wireless access points, wireless controllers, SDN controllers, IDS/IPS devices and device backup, according to the job posting. The position has a monthly salary range of $5,562 to $8,999, and the application deadline is Oct. 9.
The Department of Social Services is seeking a network security architect (IT specialist I) to serve as the technical lead focusing on system security administration, including operation and configuration management tasks for both on-premise and infrastructure in the cloud. According to the job posting, “Responsibility includes … implementation of secure baseline configurations, develop and maintain security standards compliance, technology recovery plan (TRP), track changes to systems hardware/software to maintain current configuration documentation and to facilitate the integration into the computing environment. Monitoring networks, applications, security, and system logs to proactively remedy potential performance, security incident and threats.” The position has a monthly salary range of $5,562 to $9,267, and the application deadline is Oct. 6.
The Department of Water Resources is recruiting for a senior database administrator (IT specialist I) to “serve as a senior Oracle database administrator on a variety of software development projects,” according to the job description. The administrator is “responsible for the performance, integrity and security of enterprise databases,” it notes. “Duties include the planning and development of databases, development of standards, processes, and best practices for analysis, design, implementation and maintenance of critical databases.” The position has a monthly salary range of $5,562 to $8,999, and the application deadline is Oct. 5.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is recruiting for two IT specialist I positions. The first position will “serve in the communications, coordination, management, and monitoring of various tasks involving CDCR customers, IT staff, various program areas and the public,” according to the job posting. “The incumbent has responsibility for supporting, planning, and implementing service programs, studies, or other work independently given administrative direction with assignments in terms of broadly defined missions or functions by the supervisor.” The position has a monthly salary range of $5,562 to $8,999, and the application deadline is Oct. 9. The second position is “responsible for planning, designing and carrying out design analysis and other work-related tasks that relate directly (to) servers, services, storage and virtualization activities,” according to the job posting. “The incumbent must have extensive technical knowledge and experience in designing, implementing, and managing large and complex server-based computer systems with an in-depth knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server Operating System platforms, utilities, tools and applications, in server virtualization technologies and services, in storage area networks (SANS) and storage arrays, in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), in backup and recovery administration.” This position has a monthly salary range of $5,562 to $8,999, and the application deadline is Oct. 9.
