The State Controller’s Office is seeking a section chief (IT Manager I) to assume management responsibility for planning and overseeing the work of the Technology Advocacy Section.
Responsibilities of the position, according to the department’s job posting, include:
- Identify and leverage section resources to meet ongoing operations and maintenance, assignment, and project needs.
- Assist in the development, communication and maintenance of security-related IT policies and procedures.
- Ensure that proper tools, techniques, security measures and best practices are in place as they relate to IT systems’ compliance with state, federal and departmental requirements and standards.
- Ensure that security and internal control policy and practices are followed.
- Provide direction concerning changes in priority, scope and schedule of IT system projects and assignments.
- Manage, direct and control the planning, development, implementation and maintenance of enterprise IT systems in support of business operations.
The California Highway Patrol is recruiting for a senior security engineer (IT Specialist II) to manage and maintain “a library of security audit tools and corresponding processes that can be used for system security testing, internal audits, forensic analysis, incident response and diagnosis of security-related system issues as part of the department’s Information Security Program,” according to a new job posting.
The expectations are high for this position, calling for “extensive knowledge and experience of network infrastructure, information security principles, authentication and security protocols, security engineering, infrastructure and application-level vulnerability testing and auditing, incident response, network protocols and packet analysis tools, instruction detection/prevention and web content filtering.”
In addition, applicants should have “digital forensics skills/experience, security certifications, and strong analytical and problem-solving skills to enable effective security incident and problem resolution flexibility with the ability to handle multiple situations simultaneously.”
The senior security engineer “oversees execution of approved information security projects, provides security engineering analysis on a variety of information systems, monitors trends in information technology and security that could have an impact on the security of departmental applications and infrastructure, manages security alerts, events, and security incidents, including forensic analysis, and reports details of system related breaches to the Office of Information Security (OIS) within the California Department of Technology,” the job posting says. “The ITS II position will provide expert technical advice in performing the most complex technical security functions for the protection of the California Highway Patrol’s infrastructure.”
The position has a monthly salary range of $7,014 to $9,399, and the application deadline is June 28.
