IT Professional 4 - Network Administration

State of Nevada•Carson City, NV

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) is hiring for an IT Professional 4 - Network Administration in Carson City, NV. NDOT’s Traffic Operations Division as a Network Team Supervisor leading the operation, reliability, and advancement of the agency’s OT/ITS communication networks. In this role, you will supervise complex network planning, design, configuration, monitoring, and maintenance to ensure critical transportation systems remain connected and maintain peak uptime. You’ll guide staff and contractors, review technical designs, oversee installations, and ensure network interoperability across IT, district and agency partners. You will champion industry best practices, support asset management processes, and drive adoption of new technologies that strengthen statewide transportation operations. This position also leads project coordination, contributes to procurement and contracting activities, and represents the division in committees and technical panels. The candidate selected for this position must have experience administering OT/ITS networks, including planning, configuration, and maintenance. Ability to design and review complex network infrastructure and supervise contractors. Skilled in coordinating with IT, regional offices, and partner agencies. Strong communication, project reporting, and cross agency collaboration abilities. This position is on-site and does not offer remote work options.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, management information systems, or closely related field and five years of professional IT experience relevant to the duties of the position which may include systems administration, network administration, database administration, applications analysis and development, and/or information security, two years of which were at the advanced journey level or in a supervisory or project management capacity.
OR Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, management information systems, or closely related field and five years of professional IT experience which may include systems administration, network administration, database administration, applications analysis and development, and/or information security, relevant to the duties of the position, two years of which were at the journey level in information security.
OR two years of relevant experience as an IT Professional III in Nevada State service.
OR an equivalent combination of education and experience as described above.
Experience administering OT/ITS networks, including planning, configuration, and maintenance.
Ability to design and review complex network infrastructure and supervise contractors.
Skilled in coordinating with IT, regional offices, and partner agencies.
Strong communication, project reporting, and cross agency collaboration abilities.
Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S.
Detailed knowledge of: the methodology for implementing distributed applications; network authentication; data storage networks; network security design and implementation; network communications hardware such as routers, switches, and firewalls; systems integration, hardware, and data communications; virtual private networks and virtual LANs; network performance trending and network utilization; data processing systems; network design and architecture.
Working knowledge of: network file and application servers, project management, directory services integration, intrusion detection/prevention systems logs, data encryption methodologies.
General knowledge of: supervisory practices if applicable to the assignment.
Ability to: configure and deploy firewalls, routers, and switches; present network design recommendations to management; implement network design changes; provide technical training, direction, and leadership; plan, organize, and direct projects; provide communications protocol analysis for large applications; design and configure virtual private networks; interpret authentication logs.

Responsibilities

Supervise complex network planning, design, configuration, monitoring, and maintenance.
Ensure critical transportation systems remain connected and maintain peak uptime.
Guide staff and contractors.
Review technical designs.
Oversee installations.
Ensure network interoperability across IT, district and agency partners.
Champion industry best practices.
Support asset management processes.
Drive adoption of new technologies that strengthen statewide transportation operations.
Lead project coordination.
Contribute to procurement and contracting activities.
Represent the division in committees and technical panels.
Conduct detailed alternative analyses and determine end-user requirements through consultation with end-users, technicians, vendors, management, and others.
Maintain documentation related to the assigned IT specialization’s architecture, operations, and other records of work activities as required.
Maintain current knowledge of technological trends and advancements in the IT field as well as security management practices, laws, policies, and ethics.
Participate in recommending and justifying resource allocations and expenditure decisions, tracking, and recording expenditures, preparing purchase requests, and writing technical requirements for grant proposals.
Perform related duties as assigned.
Supervise at least one IT Professional III or II or Master IT Professional.
Perform IT project management a preponderance of the time to include serving as the project leader; planning, organizing, and directing project activities; resolving design conflicts; data administration; resource allocation; contract negotiation; timeline development; critical path tracking; justifying the need for additional resources; and coordinating activities with other work units within and outside the organization as assigned.
Perform Information Security duties described at this level with at least 70% of the daily activities devoted solely to information security.
Perform technology planning and consultation duties within EITS. Technology planning and consultation duties include providing and/or performing: initial contact with agencies to assess their needs and develop their information technology plans; technical support for the Request for Proposal (RFP) process and software and hardware evaluations; guidance and technical assistance in completing appropriate Information Technology (IT) budget request forms; recommendations for feasible and cost effective technical solutions to customer agencies and reviewing agency IT project requests; research, information, testing and training for IT related issues to ensure viable, cost effective technology implementation; and enterprise-wide planning, policy and research.