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Departments Seeking Candidates for Specialty, Supervisorial Roles

Positions are in recruitment by the Department of Justice, the Employment Development Department, the California Department of State Hospitals and the Department of General Services.

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State departments are recruiting for a variety of technology positions centered on cloud, information security, server architecture and business analysis.

The California Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking an information security specialist (IT Specialist II) to direct “the largest and most complex projects and initiating key actions on a wide variety of complex security related tasks” within the department. The specialist will use “various security solutions for performing functions such as vulnerability testing for all DOJ systems and participating on the DOJ Incident Response Team,” the job posting says.

Duties include serving as a key participant on all technical matters and performing information security-related duties, working with the Electronic Recording Delivery System program and reviewing and analyzing regulations and processes and providing recommendations for compliance.

More details about the role can be found in the duty statement. The monthly salary range is $8,374 to $11,220, and the application deadline is Oct. 10.

The Employment Development Department (EDD) is seeking a senior enterprise cloud specialist (IT Specialist II) to perform maintenance, operations and enhancement tasks, as well as design modern application integration architectures, functional specifications, application testing and production migrations for business applications, the job posting says.

Candidates should have experience with on-premise and cloud environments and with AWS, VMware vSphere, vCenter and vSAN. More information about the role can be found in the duty statement. The monthly salary range is $8,374 to $11,220, and the application deadline is Oct. 5.

The California Department of State Hospitals (DSH) is seeking a server architect (IT Specialist III) to exercise expert-level strategic technical leadership and influence, to develop the enterprise IT architecture for DSH and to advise management on governance and policy.

Applicants must submit a statement of qualifications addressing the following: “Please describe a time when you had to design or re-architect an enterprise compute and storage solution to meet changing organizational needs or to incorporate new technologies. How did you ensure the solution aligned with both current and future IT infrastructure requirements? Please include the considerations you had to take into account such as business objectives, scalability, performance, budget and risk management.”

More information about the role can be found in the job posting and duty statement. The monthly salary range is $9,230 to $12,369, and the application deadline is Oct. 9.

The Department of General Services (DGS), the business manager for state government, is seeking a business analysis supervisor (IT Supervisor II) to manage the Project Analysis team of business analysts responsible for fulfilling the IT business needs of DGS customers.

Applicants must submit a statement of qualifications addressing their credentials, experience, project specifics and leadership. More details about the role can be found in the job posting and duty statement.

The monthly salary range for the position is $8,256 to $11,063, and the application deadline is Oct. 16.
Dennis Noone is Executive Editor of Industry Insider. He is a career journalist, having worked at small-town newspapers and major metropolitan dailies including USA Today in Washington, D.C.