The Office of Legislative Counsel (OLC) is seeking a desktop configuration engineer (IT Specialist II) to “lead in the creation of final configuration software images for deployment involving operating systems and application settings where the consequence of errors will have a high to extreme impact on the business success.”
OLC’s mission is “to provide responsive nonpartisan and confidential legal services and information technology support services to the California State Legislature and in support of the legislative process.”
According to the job posting, duties of the engineer role include:
- Create software deployment packages for enterprise updates and deployment.
- Provide support and problem management and produce a final configuration image, which is used to rapidly configure several thousand client devices during a new device deployment.
- Lead in recommending, installing, upgrading, configuring, and maintaining software and hardware and lead in the design, development and testing of the deployment of desktop OS images, acting as a lead for hardware and software desktop solutions including feasibility and compatibility for project implementation.
- Document and maintain a comprehensive testing environment that will become the standard for evaluating desktop hardware, image development and deployment; configure operating systems and hosted applications; and implement service packs and patches and perform security configurations.
- Schedule and report on the execution of the testing and validation effort as a part of a formal release management process.
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is recruiting for a business analyst/architect (IT Specialist II) to advise and collaborate in the development and implementation of IT initiatives, including production support, project management and data standards development, and makes recommendations on important IT production-related decisions.
“The incumbent drives the development of IT automation and associated operational strategic plans; leads efforts in developing strategies to achieve organizational goals; understands organizational strengths and weaknesses; identifies external threats and opportunities; and adapts to changing business conditions,” the job posting says. The incumbent “drives the development of IT standards … and leads section efforts to ensure compliance with current standards.”
Desirable qualifications for the role, according to the posting and the duty statement, include:
- General experience in IT including software development, design, architecture, production support, etc.
- Experience in working with enterprise architecture and governance bodies and in organizing and leading strategic workgroups to identify opportunities and resolve issues.
- Experience working within organizational support roles for operations/production to document issues, communicate with technical resources, investigate issues, triage issues, develop solutions, and communicate with users.
- Exposure to health-care data as it relates to information storing with health-care institutions, formatting of data per data exchange standards, and secure methods for technical exchange of data.
- Knowledge of the following: providing standards expertise, Health Level 7 (HL7), Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA), Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR), United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) standards and clinical data formats for data used in the broader health-care technology environment.
- Describe your experience in vision and leadership for developing and implementing IT initiatives, including software development, production support, project management, and data standards development.
- Describe your specific experience developing and/or working with governance boards. What were your specific role and responsibilities in support of and/or within the organizations?
- Describe your experience with health-care electronic exchange standards. Describe any experience relative to design and implementation of standards.
