IT Professional 4 - Network Administration

State of Nevada•Carson City, NV

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Nevada Department of Transportation is hiring for an IT Professional 4 - Network Administration in Carson City, NV. This position serves as a senior technical resource for firewall engineering and network security policy administration across NDOT's on-premises, cloud, and secure access environments. This role is responsible for designing and maintaining firewall policies, segmentation controls, VPN-related security controls, logging, monitoring, high availability, capacity planning, configuration standards, and related network security services. The position reviews firewall and access requests for business need, security impact, least-privilege access, routing dependencies, operational risk, and compliance with standards. The incumbent develops implementation plans, testing and rollback steps, change records, technical documentation, and validation evidence to support reliable operations and approved change-management processes. The position coordinates closely with network architecture, security, infrastructure, cloud, service desk, application, project, vendor, and business teams, and provides technical consultation, recommendations, and documentation for complex firewall and network security initiatives. The candidate selected for this position will have experience designing, administering, and lifecycle-managing enterprise firewall and network security policy environments · Experience reviewing firewall or network access requests for least privilege, business need, routing dependencies, security impact, and operational risk. Experience supporting cloud network security controls or hybrid cloud connectivity. Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S, we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time. Please note that this position is on-site and does not offer remote work options. The Job Duties section listed in this announcement reflects the Statewide Class Specifications for all positions and do not fully correlate with the specific duties of this position. Information Technology (IT) Professionals analyze, develop, implement, maintain, and modify computer operations, systems, networks, databases, applications, and/or information security. Incumbents may perform duties in one or more IT specialization areas depending on the needs of the agency.

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 designing, administering, and lifecycle-managing enterprise firewall and network security policy environments.
Experience reviewing firewall or network access requests for least privilege, business need, routing dependencies, security impact, and operational risk.
Experience supporting cloud network security controls or hybrid cloud connectivity.
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.
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.

Nice To Haves

General knowledge of: supervisory practices if applicable to the assignment.

Responsibilities

Designing and maintaining firewall policies, segmentation controls, VPN-related security controls, logging, monitoring, high availability, capacity planning, configuration standards, and related network security services.
Reviewing firewall and access requests for business need, security impact, least-privilege access, routing dependencies, operational risk, and compliance with standards.
Developing implementation plans, testing and rollback steps, change records, technical documentation, and validation evidence to support reliable operations and approved change-management processes.
Coordinating closely with network architecture, security, infrastructure, cloud, service desk, application, project, vendor, and business teams.
Providing technical consultation, recommendations, and documentation for complex firewall and network security initiatives.
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.
Under administrative direction, incumbents either: 1) perform duties described at this level and supervise at least one IT Professional III or II or Master IT Professional; or 2) perform duties described at this level within the Enterprise IT Services (EITS) Division for enterprise- level IT systems utilized by multiple departments; or 3) 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; or 4) perform Information Security duties described at this level with at least 70% of the daily activities devoted solely to information security; or 5) 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.