The California Department of Technology (CDT) is seeking a deputy director for platform services (Career Executive Assignment), who will be responsible for managing CDT’s Office of Technology Services (OTech) statewide IT infrastructure.
The director oversees the “development and maintenance of high-level policy affecting all facets of IT for the state, development and implementation of IT policy governing existing and future IT systems, and establishing statewide IT standards, security policy implementation and project oversight,” the job posting says. The director serves on the OTech executive staff and the CDT senior staff.
Responsibilities of the position include:
- Direct the planning, development, implementation, and maintenance of a comprehensive IT infrastructure that continuously meets customers’ dynamic business needs.
- Guide and direct the implementation of statewide enterprise services, such as mainframe processing, relational databases and data storage.
- Establish high-level statewide and departmental policies that impact day-to-day IT operations at every level and affect Californians.
- Advise and collaborate with the top leaders in CDT as well as with the California Government Operations Agency, the Governor’s Office, customer departments, the federal government and other key stakeholders.
- Resolve high-level risk and issues associated with IT applications and systems utilizing the state’s technology infrastructure.
Desirable qualifications include:
- Well-developed interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
- Experience in obtaining buy-in and providing leadership to a large group of multidisciplinary team members who do not report directly to the incumbent.
- Ability to anticipate and manage complex issues affecting many organizations, including the ability to develop policy and integrate all aspects of a strategy to assure resolution of issues.
- Proven track record of gaining the confidence and trust of individuals in key positions in the office’s customer base.
- Ability to evaluate products from multiple perspectives (customers, stakeholders, vendors, best practices) in order to develop standards for product approvals.
More details about the role are available in the duty statement. The position has a monthly salary range of $11,102 to $13,226, and the application deadline is Oct. 19.
CDT is also recruiting for a DevSecOps manager (IT Manager I) to oversee the development, security and operations engineering team and to be responsible for the hiring process, to recommend training needs and to oversee and implement standards, policies, procedures and business process improvements.
According to the job posting, desirable qualifications for this position include:
- Experience designing and implementing secure automation solutions for development, testing and high-availability production environments in either public or private cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, etc.) and experience with network, security, deployment, automation and serverless technologies.
- Experience working with agile development teams in continuous integration/continuous release cycles models such as DevOps Build Server, Ansible, Circle CI, Jenkins, and Puppet to maximize efficiency.
- Experience with cloud platforms, virtualized platforms container systems (Docker) and container orchestration (e.g., EC2 Container Service, Kubernetes, OpenShift etc.).
- Experience with Logging and Monitoring (e.g., Splunk, Kibana, Monitis, Microsoft Sentinel CloudWatch, New Relic, SolarWinds, Datadog, etc.)
- Experience in infrastructure automation/configuration management, including Ansible, CloudFormation, PowerShell, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Vagrant and Azure Resource Manager.
In addition, candidates should be familiar with CDT’s business areas and understand best practices for project management.
More details about the position can be found in the duty statement. The role has a monthly salary range of $8,591 to $11,512, and the application deadline is Oct. 20.
The California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), part of the California State Transportation Agency, is seeking a deputy director/chief information officer (IT Manager I) for the IT Division, responsible for planning, organizing and directing all digital services activities for the statewide traffic safety program.
Candidates should have extensive knowledge of IT systems hardware, software and practices; must be able to monitor and resolve complex problems with these systems; and must be knowledgeable in their analysis, development, implementation and support.
“In-depth comprehension of network administration, information security, technical documentation and data backup and recovery are required, along with an understanding of data processing concepts, practices and methods, and knowledge of project management procedures and practices,” the job posting says.
Duties of the role include:
- Serve as chief information officer for OTS and oversee the planning, organizing, directing and managing of activities and resources in the IT Division (40 percent).
- Plan and direct work activities and priorities including hiring, coaching, developing staff, measuring staff performance and succession planning (25 percent).
- Promote the department’s strategic plans with focus on customer service, enterprise IT solutions, adoption of best practices, and delivery of cost-effective IT services and solutions for business partners. Formulate, review, analyze and provide guidance on legislative bill analysis and evaluate the impact to systems and resources (15 percent).
- Develop and maintain effective communication and working relationships within the department, government entities, commercial organizations and outside stakeholders (15 percent).
- Other tasks as needed (5 percent).
The position has a monthly salary range of $8,591 to $11,512, and the application deadline is Oct. 13. More details are available in the duty statement.
The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) is seeking an application development manager (IT Manager I) to set departmental policy for the management and development of IT software solutions and to serve as the lead developer.
GO-Biz serves as an advocate for job growth and economic development efforts in California. It offers a range of services to business owners including attraction, retention and expansion; site selection; permit streamlining; clearing of regulatory hurdles; small-business assistance; international trade development; and assistance with state government.
The app development manager supervises, plans, organizes and oversees the work of IT specialists responsible for “evaluating, designing, developing, building, installing, testing, modifying and maintaining complex systems,” according to the job posting. “The incumbent, serving as a technical manager, may be assigned to and responsible for management of multiple projects concurrently.”
Key functions of the position include managing the software development staff and resources (35 percent), managing projects (30 percent), serving as lead developer (30 percent), and overseeing methodologies, standards and training (5 percent). The manager reports to the GO-Biz CIO.
More details about the role can be found in the duty statement. The position has a monthly salary range of $8,591 to $11,512, and the application deadline is Oct. 9.
