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State Agency Seeks Bureau Director; City Seeks CISO

The California Department of Justice position oversees three branches within the Enterprise Service Bureau — Cybersecurity, Enterprise Support, and Project Management and Procurement. The CISO recruitment is for the city of Riverside, the state's 12th-largest city.

A state agency and a large Southern California municipality are recruiting for key leadership roles in the IT realm.

The California Department of Justice is recruiting for a director of the department’s Enterprise Services Bureau (ESB), who will oversee the bureau’s three branches: Cybersecurity, Enterprise Support, and Project Management and Procurement. The position is classified as a Career Executive Assignment (C.E.A.) Level B.

The director “serves as the principal administrator of the centralized IT services by defining the primary business strategies and policies that guide the IT desktop management for the department,” the job posting says. “The position serves as the key policy maker leading the ESB to define and develop an open system framework of processes, documents, database objects, components, services and modules to achieve flexibility, scalability, speed of development, and operational cost savings. The Bureau Director is responsible for advocating legislative solutions and representing the Bureau and Division before the Legislature, governmental agencies, and public and private organizations.”

The bureau director also “establishes a strategic vision for the coordinated planning, acquisition, and development of cost-effective information technology solutions to business problems,” the posting says.

The position has a monthly salary range of $10,360 to $12,341, and the application deadline is July 1.

The city of Riverside is recruiting for a chief information security officer (CISO) to direct and oversee Innovation and Technology (IT) Security programs and operations citywide, including the member-owned Riverside Public Utilities Department.

“The CISO will set the city’s cybersecurity vision,” the job posting says, and will “develop policy, mitigate risk, train others on security policies and practices, ensure systems and data are working and be an IT security business partner for our 17 departments, chief innovation officer, and executive leaders. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on participative leader with extensive experience writing and optimizing IT security policy and procedures, mitigating risk, and serving as a subject matter expert and business partner to the organization. Our CISO should be creative, agile, flexible, and forward thinking to stay on the forefront of IT security.”

The CISO position has an annual salary range of $122,052 to $163,500, and the application deadline is July 9.

In addition to being the citywide CISO, this position will also serve as the CISO for Riverside Public Utilities, the city’s largest department.

Riverside’s Innovation and Technology Department, led by Chief Information Officer George Khalil, has 54 staff and an approximate annual budget of $13 million. The city has an overall budget of $1.1 billion for fiscal year 2019-2020 and a staff of 2,400. The city provides services to more than 330,000 constituents.

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.