INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST III

• Responsible for the design, implementation, and support of large scale web farm infrastructure across multiple data centers supporting the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering.
• Help engineering implement new technologies in development for future production deployment.
• Working with team to analyze and design web farm infrastructure with 99.99% up-time with server virtualization, clustering, database, disaster recovery, and geographic redundancy.
• Provide technical guidance, knowledge transfer and mentorship to State Fund internal engineering peers as required and lead technical staff responsibilities.
• Reporting server farm operational status by gathering, prioritizing information
• Server Maintenance based on updates, system requirements, data usage, and antivirus requirements
• Build out a robust system to auto-scale our platform and work closely with our engineering team to diagnose how to build this, how to manage this and what triggers to measure.
• Actively monitor and administer the applications and hosting environment to increase efficiency, improve reliability, and minimize downtimes
• Triage and provide technical solutions to environment related issues encountered by new and existing applications in the environment
• Support developers with change requests, uptime, performance related issues, and access
• Application management for ASP, .NET, MSMQ and classic
• Documentation of work in regards to bug reports, systems analysis, application monitoring, and common task reporting
• Author internal documentation, such as environment diagrams, installation/configuration documents and release notes.
• Assist in establishing and implementing configuration management program and policies.
• Troubleshoot and debug environment and infrastructure problems found in the production and non-production environments.
• Measurement, optimization, and tuning of system performance and ensuring that systems will run reliably and are highly available in a 24/7 production environment.
• Automate systems monitoring tasks using standard monitoring tools.

Working Conditions

The successful candidate must reside in California upon appointment.

Selected candidate(s) hired may be required to attend in-person Onboarding at our Vacaville office with expenses for attendance paid by State Fund., Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, website searches, and third-party reviewers can be helpful in researching responses to the SOQ; however, by submitting your application for this position, you understand and acknowledge the SOQ you submit is your own work, in your own words, and accurately reflects your knowledge, skills, abilities, and experiences. Submitting an SOQ that is not your own may be cause for disqualification from the hiring process.

Application Instructions

Completed applications and all required documents must be received or postmarked by the Final Filing Date in order to be considered. Dates printed on Mobile Bar Codes, such as the Quick Response (QR) Codes available at the USPS, are not considered Postmark dates for the purpose of determining timely filing of an application. Final Filing Date: 5/30/2026

Who May Apply Individuals who are currently in the classification, eligible for lateral transfer, eligible for reinstatement, have list or LEAP eligibility, are in the process of obtaining list eligibility, or have SROA and/or Surplus eligibility (please attach your letter, if available). SROA and Surplus candidates are given priority; therefore, individuals with other eligibility may be considered in the event no SROA or Surplus candidates apply.

Do you have experience in vCenter?, Do you have a Bachelor’s degree?, This position will act as a primary technical principal and is responsible for delivery of Linux/Windows enterprise web farm infrastructure solutions within State Fund. This position focuses on expertise in IIS/Apache, web infrastructure support and middleware for a long term project engagement. This position will also work closely with engineering teams to create consistent and repeatable code and server deployments. An ideal candidate will have a strong operations background as well as some development experience. Candidates for this position must be able to, from day one, roll up their sleeves and hit the ground running, and bring their experience to the team to make the project deployments much smoother. Most importantly, the right individual will be with a positive, “can-do” attitude and a passion for delivering technical solutions in a fast-paced environment., In addition to evaluating each candidate’s relative ability, as demonstrated by quality and breadth of experience, the following factors will provide the basis for competitively evaluating each candidate:

Required Experience:

• Minimum of 7+ years of robust Windows system administration experience.
• Strong scripting skills in Windows PowerShell.
• Minimum 3 years software developer experience in .Net application.
• Fluent in basic T-SQL language is a plus.
• Familiarity with deploying and configuring Java and .Net applications.
• Experience with system automation and deployment tools such as Chef and Puppet.
• Strong background in networking, load balancing, and firewalls.
• Solid background in systems engineering and operations.
• 5- 7 years in installation/configuration of high end servers and storage hardware in data centers
• 3 - 5 Experience in working with management and maintenance of application running on IIS.
• 2 - 4 years experience installing VMWare products - ESX, ESXi, VSphere, vCenter, P2V&V2V conversions.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to apply them during business impacting incidents.

• Capable of mentor others and lead by example.

• 5+/- years of hands-on experience developing tools that empower the Engineering Organization

Qualifications and Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (e.g. Computer Science, IT, or similar disciplines).
• Equivalent work experience implementing and operating enterprise level data center and/or office networks.
• RHCE/RHCSA and CSA HP-UX 11i certifications desired.

Technical Skills The Consultant resource(s) shall possess most of the following skills:

• Thorough knowledge of Linus and Windows 2003, 2008 and 2010 Operating Systems
• Thorough understanding of IIS 6.x/7.x (or above)
• Hosting and running websites on a large scale environment
• Windows networking and hosting requirements
• Understanding of networks and firewall systems
• Deploy web products built on the Microsoft stack, including Windows Server 20XX and IIS 6.x/7.x (or above).
• Firm knowledge of virtualization technologies such as Amazon AWS, OpenStack, VMware, Xen and/or KVM
• Scripting experience and fluent in at least one scripting language: VB Script or Windows PowerShell. Fluent in basic T-SQL language is a plus.
• Experience with Flexpod is a plus
• Fluency with common network admin and intrusion detection tools such as Rancid, OpenNMS, Nagios, Ethereal/Wireshark, Nmap, Nessus, Netflow, etc.
• Good knowledge of Cisco IOS, both Cisco Nexus and non-Nexus series switches, Cisco routers and other Cisco networking gear.
• Solid understanding of data center related technology and collocation environment.

Pulled from the full job description

• Tuition reimbursement
• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Leadership training provided, State Fund employees are eligible for a number of benefits. Our benefit package includes: Health Benefits Program (CalPERS) Retirement (CalPERS) Employer Health and Consolidated Benefits Contributions Dental, Vision 401(k) and 457 Deferred Compensation Plans Employee Assistance Program Group Legal Services Insurance Holidays, Vacation/Sick/Other Paid Leave Flex Elect Reimbursement Program Wellness and Recognition Alternate Work Schedules Transit Pass Program Tuition Reimbursement Dependent Scholarship Program Leadership Training Mentoring Program https://www.statefundca.com//Home/StaticIndex?id=https://content.statefundca.com//careers/Index.asp

State Fund is California’s largest provider of workers’ compensation insurance. Established in 1914 by the state legislature, we offer diverse and comprehensive products and services that provide a strong and stable option for employers and injured employees with fast, reliable claims service and medical and indemnity benefits. Our culture centers on our purpose and values. We exist to provide fairly priced workers’ compensation insurance, make workplaces safe, and restore injured workers. To fully represent California, we are committed to our employees by embracing and celebrating our diverse workforce and fostering inclusion to make the workplace a dynamic environment for all. We recognize and reward high performance, yet value a healthy work/life balance.

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