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Below are two leadership positions with annual salaries that range above $100,000.
The Department of Health and Human Services seeks an IT team lead for ITEAMS “assisting with coordinating projects, operational support, and program support for application architecture, design and analysis work for applications supporting Laboratory and Infectious Disease Services division. Work involves overseeing the planning and analysis of user requirements, procedures and problems to architect, design and implement new software applications.”
Areas of qualifications include:
- Knowledge of the limitations and capabilities of software applications and the techniques used in the design of automated systems.
- Knowledge of agile methodology and approaches.
- Knowledge of project management.
- Knowledge of HL7.
- Knowledge of messaging and integration systems.
- Skilled in all phases of the software development life cycle and best practices.
- Skill in data analysis, interpretation and communication of findings.
- Skill in Java and Java scripting.
- Ability to plan, assign and monitor the work of others.
- Ability to coordinate and solve complex problems, work in a team environment, and handle multiple priorities.
Areas of responsibility include:
- Advanced analysis and design duties.
- Complex computer programming.
- Technical assistance to programming staff.
- May plan and assign the work of other technical staff.
- Train and mentor others.
- Provide technical/computer-related expertise to assigned program areas.
- Analyze all aspects of technical environments.
- Monitor technical tasks to meet user requirements.
- Develop technology acquisition plans.
Minimum requirements include:
- Seven years’ experience as a technical lead or an IT application development manager.
- Degree from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in a field relevant to the assignment is preferred.
- Related work experience may substitute for the education on a year-for-year basis with a maximum substitution of four years.
The position has a monthly salary range of $6,999 to $11,838, and the application deadline is Jan. 18.
The department also seeks a DevOps lead performing highly advanced application architecture, design and analysis work for applications supporting the Laboratory and Infectious Disease Services division. This position will head a combined production support and DevOps team supporting hundreds of thousands of users and will provide direction for the team responsible for seeding and growing DevOps culture in the organization for the software-as-a-service product offering.
Areas of qualifications include:
- Knowledge of industry best practices for DevOps.
- Knowledge of agile/scrum.
- Knowledge of source code management tools such as GitHub or Bitbucket.
- Knowledge of industry best practices for cybersecurity and related tools such as Black Duck or Vericode.
- Knowledge of continuous integration tools such as Jenkins.
- Knowledge of cloud (AWS, Azure or equivalent).
- Knowledge of containers such as Docker.
- Knowledge of automated testing tools such as Selenium or Squish.
- Knowledge of automated configuration tools such as Chef or Puppet.
- Skill in creating a solution prototype.
- Skill in developing software in Java or .Net.
Skills in troubleshooting, performance tuning and problem-solving include:
- Ability to accurately track time spent working on projects and the ability to accurately estimate changes or enhancements.
- Ability to work in a department of a Texas state agency that has statewide or broad oversight responsibilities.
Areas of responsibility include:
- Transform development processes into a Continuous Delivery-driven SDLC.
- Maintain infrastructure (mainly Azure) and software design, continuous delivery adoption/transformation, production and nonproduction support.
- Plan and coach.
- Develop incident response procedures, on-call rotations and accreditation documentation.
- Build bridges with counterparts in security, SRE and product.
Areas of qualifications include:
- Five-plus years of experience in DevOps.
- Three-plus years of team lead experience (including hiring, performance management, employee development and leadership) for a team of more than 10 preferred.
- Experience with Kubernetes and containers, bonus for experience with micro VMs preferred.
- Excellent understanding of SDLC, patching, releases and software development at scale, continuous integration and delivery approaches preferred.
- Strong knowledge of cloud providers offerings, Azure (in particular) and tools like Puppet and Terraform preferred.
The position has a monthly salary range of $6,999 to $11,838, and the application deadline is Dec. 12.
