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IT SYSTEMS TECHNICAL SPECIALIST

Recruitment #16-004488-0005

Introduction

The Maryland State Treasurer's Office, Information Technology division is seeking a qualified, ambitious individual to fill a vacancy for an IT Systems Technical Specialist.

GRADE

19

LOCATION OF POSITION

Annapolis, Maryland

Main Purpose of Job

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

This position engages in every aspect of network administration, network design, application support, information security, and configuration management. In addition to traditional IT functions the applicant will also have to work directly with Treasury Management, banking, investments, accounting and insurance by providing on the spot technical expertise and solutions that are customized to their needs. Due to the small size of our agency, tasks required of this position cover a wide variety of systems and users, and duties from low level to high level.

The applicant should be prepared for a challenging role that will include providing the broad range of IT support needed to update and replace existing IT systems as well as maintaining legacy systems and providing operations support. In addition, this individual will be instrumental in researching, recommending, and executing the Strategic Plan that will determine the direction that the State Treasurers Office will follow in order to implement secure technology solutions that are adaptable enough to carry the office into the future.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Computer Information Technology, Management Information Systems or other information technology-related field to include coursework in application, communication, database or operating systems software technology.  

Experience: Three years of experience designing, developing, testing, implementing and maintaining application, communication, database or operating systems software.

Notes:

1. Graduation from an accredited high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate and thirty credit hours from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Computer Technology, Management Information Systems or other information technology-related field to include coursework in application, communication, database or operating systems software technology may be substituted for the required education.  

2. Graduation from an accredited high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate and one additional year of experience designing, developing, testing, implementing and maintaining application, communication, database or operating systems software may be substituted for the required education.  

3. Experience operating computer systems; or scheduling, controlling input and output to process data on computer systems; or evaluating, implementing and maintaining computer hardware and software; or converting data from project specifications by developing program code using generally accepted computer programming languages may be substituted for high school education on a year- for-year basis.

4. Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a commissioned officer in the Computer Systems Operations classifications or Computer Systems Operations specialty codes in the Information Technology field of work on a year-for-year basis for the required experience and education.

SELECTIVE QUALIFICATIONS

Two of the required three years must be in configuring and implementing devices such as firewall, proxy server, IDPS, routers, switches, virtual machine hosts or any comparable network/security/server devices.  

One of the required three years of experience must be in configuration management, customer service/help desk, and general IT support functions.

DESIRED OR PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience understanding, interpreting and implementing IT security, principles into practice (e.g. NSA Top 10 IA mitigation strategies, SANS 20 Critical Security Controls, NIST 800-53)

Experience with a variety of operating systems such as Unix, Linux, MAC, etc.

Experience implementing a virtual environment such as VMware, hyper-V, Xen, etc.

Experience administering a Windows Server environment

Experience implementing cloud based solutions in an enterprise environment

Experience building and managing back end database environments such as SQL, MySQL, Oracle, etc.

Experience implementing VPN and remote access technologies

SELECTION PROCESS

Applicants who meet the minimum and selective qualifications will be admitted to examination for the classification.  Successful candidates will be ranked as Best Qualified, Better Qualified, or Qualified and placed on the employment (eligible) list for at least one year.  Only those individuals whose applications reflect the necessary education and experience will be considered, so please describe all relevant experience and education in detail. Please be sure to submit your transcripts with you application (unofficial is adequate) or list relevant coursework on the employment application.

EXAMINATION PROCESS

The examination will consist of a rating of your education, training and experience related to the requirements of this position.  All information concerning your qualifications must be submitted by the closing date.  We will not consider information submitted after this date.

BENEFITS

FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS

The online application process is STRONGLY recommended.  If you do not have access to the Internet and need to fill out a paper application, please forward to:

Maryland State Treasurer's Office 80 Calvert Street, Room 109  Annapolis, Maryland  21401Attention:  Human Resources or hr@treasurer.state.md.us or Fax:  410-260-4090

General questions can be directed to the STO Personnel Office at 410-260-6382 or 410-260-7078.

We thank our Veterans for their service to our country, and encourage them to apply.

TTY Users:  Call via Maryland Relay

As an equal opportunity employer, Maryland is committed to recruiting, retaining and promoting employees who are reflective of the State’s diversity.




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