IT PROFESSIONAL 4 - NETWORK ADMINISTRATION

State of Nevada; Carson City (NV); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Vacation Leave

Sick Leave

Paid Holidays

Public Service Pension (PERS)

Job summary

State of Nevada, through its Nevada Department of Transportation, is seeking an IT Professional 4 - Network Administration in Carson City or Las Vegas. The role focuses on firewall design/administration, policy enforcement, VPN security, and secure access across on-prem and cloud environments.

The incumbent collaborates with architecture, security, infrastructure, and business teams, ensuring compliant change management and robust network security implementations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and five years of IT experience in relevant duties.
• Two years at the advanced journey level or in supervisory/project management role, or equivalent.
• Experience designing, administering, and lifecycle-managing enterprise firewall and network security policies.

Responsibilities

• Conduct analyses to determine end-user requirements.
• Maintain architecture and operation documentation.
• Stay current with IT trends, security management practices, and ethics.
• Prepare purchase requests and grant-related technical requirements.
• Perform related duties and participate in project leadership as assigned.

Skills

Firewall engineering

Network security policy

Cloud and on-premises networks

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / MIS or related field

Tools

Firewall management tools

VPN technologies

Job description

• No Nevada state income tax.

Job Summary

The Nevada Department of Transportation is hiring for an IT Professional 4 - Network Administration in Carson City or Las Vegas. 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.

Essential Qualifications

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.

Job Duties

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.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

This job specification lists the major knowledge, skills and abilities of the job and is not all inclusive. Incumbent(s) will be expected to have knowledge, skills and abilities from a previous level.

Network Administration

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.

Benefits Include

• Health Insurance: Medical, dental, life, and disability insurance programs for employees and their dependents/family are offered through the Public Employees’ Benefits Program (PEBP).
• Vacation: Accrual of three weeks of annual leave each year.
• Sick Leave: Accrual of three weeks of sick leave each year.
• Holidays: 12 paid holidays per year.
• Retirement: Participation in the Nevada Public Employees Retirement System (PERS). Employees do not contribute to Social Security but will contribute to PERS if their position is at 50% or more full-time equivalency. For more information on how PERS service may impact Social Security benefits, visit the SSA publication.
• Deferred Compensation: The State offers a voluntary Deferred Compensation Program.
• No Nevada state income tax.
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness: Eligible due to public sector employment.
• Longevity Payments Eligibility: Employees who have received a performance rating of “standard” or better and have completed eight (8) or more years of continuous service are eligible for longevity pay.

Additional benefits

may apply to employees covered under a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), depending on their designated bargaining unit. For more information, visit the Labor Relations Unit (LRU).

For more details about your rights and responsibilities as a State of Nevada employee, please review the State of Nevada Employee Handbook (PDF).

• State Holidays The holiday schedule for State employees is established by the Legislature.

The Following Are Legal Holidays

January 1.............................................. New Year's Day

Third Monday in January.................. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday

Third Monday in February................ Washington’s Birthday

Last Monday in May........................... Memorial Day

June 19................................................ Juneteenth Day

July 4.................................................... Independence Day

First Monday in September.............. Labor Day

Last Friday in October....................... Nevada Day

November 11........................................ Veterans' Day

Fourth Thursday in November........ Thanksgiving Day

Friday following the Fourth Thursday in November...................... Family Day

December 25........................................ Christmas Day

When January 1, June 19, July 4, November 11, or December 25 falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday is the observed legal holiday. If these days fall on Sunday, the following Monday is the observed holiday. Eligibility for holiday pay is covered by the provisions of NAC 284.255