The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Enterprise Architecture Office, located within its Office of Information Technology Services (OITS), is recruiting for an Enterprise Infrastructure Architect (IT Specialist III) to design and lead its technical team in implementing a robust, reliable and “fault-tolerant” department infrastructure.
The successful candidate will work under the direction of the chief information officer and will be the team lead and subject matter expert for the Network and Server Management Office, according to the job posting. As Enterprise Infrastructure Architect, the IT Specialist III is charged with development and maintenance of the Enterprise Architecture plan’s Technical Architecture component. The post requires extensive knowledge of department operations, projects and current issues as well as an eye for future trends.
The role and responsibilities of the IT Specialist III impact “the entire CDFA organization and all mission critical infrastructure systems,” according to the duty statement; and whoever is chosen must work “collaboratively with the OITS management team and staff, briefs and (advise) the manager.”
The position’s scope will include servers, networks, storage as well as related hardware, software and services. Its essential functions are 40 percent system engineering, including CDFA enterprise infrastructure planning, leading planning and development of new system architectures and serving as senior technical lead over the Network and Server Management Office; 40 percent IT service management operations, including ensuring stable “performance and operations of CDFA infrastructure, operating systems, and application software”; 15 percent infrastructure project management, including providing “lead technical input” and doing alternative analysis studies to “define the scope of infrastructure projects prior to initiating”; and 5 percent miscellaneous duties.
Per the class specification, the IT Specialist III is “the expert adviser level” and shows “strategic technical leadership, influence, and expertise that drive the organization's use of technology toward constant improvements.” Workers in that class “develop the enterprise information technology architecture direction of the organization and advise management and executive level staff on governance and policy.” They may also have “extensive decision-making authority” and lead the agency’s most complex projects “where the consequence of error may have a serious detrimental effect on the operating efficiency of the organization.”
The position has a monthly salary range of $7,732 to $10,362, and the application deadline is May 1.