Covered California, the state’s health exchange for Obamacare, is seeking an IT service chief (IT Manager II) who is a “strategic leader” capable of playing a pivotal role in several projects and initiatives.
Among the chief’s responsibilities is “guiding the Client Technologies and Enterprise Voice units through a transformative era marked by innovative projects and an evolving organizational framework,” the job posting says. “The appointed individual will play a pivotal role in spearheading the implementation of the Future of Work and Service Catalog/Configuration Management Database (CMDB) initiatives, advancing the service and educational capabilities of the Service Desk and participating on the Incident Management and Access Automation projects.”
Candidates must have “a comprehensive understanding of Service Desk operations, IT service delivery protocols, workstation management, utilization of collaboration tools, and oversight of asset management and ITSM tools, complemented by knowledge of IT procurement strategies,” the posting says.
More information about the role can be found in the duty statement. The monthly salary range is $11,056 to $13,439, and the application deadline is Oct. 19.
The Department of Health Care Services is recruiting for a senior portfolio project manager (IT Specialist III) to provide “mastery-level expertise in portfolio project management, technology solutions, system integrations, procurements, contract financials, and vendor management,” according to the job posting.
In addition, the manager will lead the planning and coordination of enterprise-level activities required to support interaction or integration with existing systems and will establish a master schedule to manage contracts, deliverables and coordination with divisions across DHCS. Other duties include assembling and directing teams of state staff and contractors to handle the workload, including systems software engineering, and providing guidance on architecture, security and complex technology modernization efforts.
More details about the role can be found in the duty statement. The monthly salary range is $9,230 to $12,369, and the application deadline is Oct. 21.
The California State Lottery is seeking an information security and privacy manager (IT Manager I) to “develop, implement and direct all necessary security policies, standards, and procedures required to staff for a comprehensive Information Security Management System (ISMS).”
According to the job posting and duty statement, this leadership position includes the following duties:
- Manage and supervise the Information Security and Privacy Office (40 percent)
- Provide oversight of the implementation of security-related practices to ensure Lottery’s adherence to security policies and standards (20 percent)
- Develop, implement, manage and maintain policies and procedures for the monitoring and reporting of incidents involving intentional, unintentional, or unauthorized access, disclosure, use, modification or destruction of Lottery assets (20 percent)
- Collaborate with Lottery’s IT security and enterprise architecture teams to manage the design and implementation of security and technical controls or threat countermeasures (15 percent)
- Participate in enterprise focus of change management to ensure compliance with approved Lottery policies and procedures, and perform other job-related duties as needed (5 percent)
The Lottery is also seeking a senior system analyst (IT Specialist II) to be responsible for “providing and enforcing procedures for incident handling, particularly for analyzing vendor and internal incident-related data.”
“The incumbent performs oversight of technology and design decisions to ensure quality while complying with and meeting current and future Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility guidelines, security regulations, and Lottery standards,” the job posting says. The analyst “will lead application development governance processes in the Development Operations (DevOps) Agile continuous delivery and integration pipelines to ensure consistent software development life cycle management.”
Desirable qualifications include:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and experience facilitating meetings, briefings and presentations to all levels of the organization.
- Ability to perform critical analysis of complex business problems and present findings to key stakeholders and technical staff.
- Experience in the development and implementation of written project documentation, policies, processes and standards.
- Strong knowledge of Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and best practices for system analysis, design, development, implementation and support.
- Expert knowledge in project management practices and ability to document business rules, processes, procedures and code-level comments.
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is seeking a senior information security analyst/engineer (IT Specialist II) to “work in a collaborative team environment where you will be a lead person, responsible for safeguarding the organization's information assets, systems, and infrastructure through expert-level analysis, correlation, investigation, reporting, and remediation.”
Desirable qualifications for the role, according to the job posting, include security certifications (e.g., CISSP and CEH) and:
- Knowledge of IT networking concepts, protocols and network security methodologies, and experience in event/log analysis and incident triage.
- Proven experience with tools such as Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), firewalls, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and vulnerability scanner.
- Expertise in patch and vulnerability management, server and desktop protections, and endpoint management.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team and collaborate with colleagues from various departments.
- Experience with virtual and cloud computing environments is a plus.
