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State Recruiting for Digital Investigator, Other Specialists

Departments seeking to fill IT positions include the California Department of Justice, the California State Lottery, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Managed Health Care.

A spate of recruitments has opened up, with state agencies seeking network engineers, specialists and a digital investigator.

The California Department of Justice (DoJ) is recruiting for a network information security manager (IT manager I) who will have “full management responsibility directing the Security Operations Center within the Network Information Security Unit in ensuring all daily tasks and issues are mitigated,” according to the job posting. The manager will oversee “the development, formulation, review and approval of the most complex IT security architecture/systems, such as System Security, Identity Management, User Account Management, Security Testing, Surveillance and Monitoring, Protection of Security Technology, Cryptographic Key Management, Malicious Software Prevention, Detection and Correction, Network Security, and the Exchange of Sensitive Data, some with zero downtime fault tolerance,” the posting says. The position has a monthly salary range of $8,016 to $10,742, and the application deadline is Oct. 22.

The DoJ is also recruiting for a digital forensic investigator (IT specialist II), which the job posting describes as “an exceptional career opportunity to work in an exciting program committed to providing outstanding electronic discovery, incident response and digital investigation services to a large, statewide law enforcement agency.” The position focuses on digital forensics, big data, cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), electronic information systems, and social media forensics. The monthly salary range is $7,365 to $9,869, and the application deadline is Oct. 22.

The California Department of Transportation is seeking a lead systems engineer (IT specialist I) to provide “leadership and expertise for the projects, administrative and technical design and support for capacity planning, monitoring (and) activities for data storage, data protection and disaster recovery-related architecture, hardware and software,” the job posting says. “This also includes monitoring the growth, recommending and managing changes to meet ongoing needs of the department.” The monthly salary range is $5,562 to $8,999, and the application deadline is Oct. 22.

The California State Lottery is recruiting for a systems administrator (IT specialist I) to provide “technical support and expertise in the areas of servers, storage, backup/data protection, cloud, and virtualization” within the Lottery infrastructure, according to the job posting. Duties of the position include providing “support for Active Directory, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, NTFS permissions, IIS Webservers, File\Print Servers, infrastructure services, virtualization systems, cloud services (Azure, Office 365, etc.) and Email system (Exchange Online),” according to the position’s duty statement. The position has a monthly salary range of $5,562 to $8,999, and the application deadline is Oct. 22.

The Department of Managed Health Care is seeking a network engineer (IT specialist I) who’s “eager to embrace new technologies to effect digital transformation” on a “newly energized and highly innovative team” in the department’s Office of Technology and Innovation. According to the job posting, the engineer is responsible for enterprise network services operations including firewalls, core, distribution and access switches, Wi-Fi, network monitoring tools, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), client VPN, network security systems and cabling. The engineer is also responsible for system engineering, architecture, design, configuration and administration of all network and cloud infrastructure for DMHC. The monthly salary range is $5,562 to $8,999, and the recruitment will remain open until the position is filled.

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.