Infrastructure Specialist

What We Need YOU To Do

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency wants you to be our newest infrastructure specialist in our Office of IT Services located at our Central Office in downtown Columbus, Ohio.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency wants you to be our newest infrastructure specialist in our Office of IT Services located at our Central Office in downtown Columbus, Ohio.

Finally. You're here!

In your new position, you will coordinate with DAS-managed firewall systems to maintain secure firewall and client rulesets. You will review and update network access controls as needed. You will interface with DAS, agency partners, and cloud providers to help manage DNS and firewall entries and you'll diagnose issues to ensure accurate name resolution and reliable network traffic across the enterprise network.

You will install, maintain, configure, upgrade, and administer client and network hardware and software independently in support of business continuity, information security, telecommunications, and network connectivity where technical work requires specific knowledge to evaluate, select, adapt, and modify standard procedures. You will create documentation of procedures and maintenance of system configurations, network diagrams, and data-flow processes. When it comes to cyber security duties, you will review and monitor enterprise security systems and take appropriate action and respond to alarms/alerts per agency policy and procedure.

You will also monitor and review alerts from logging systems, investigate anomalies, support vulnerability management activities, and contribute to incident response procedures according to agency plans.

• Coordinate with DAS-managed firewall systems to maintain secure firewall.
• Review and update network access controls.
• Install, maintain, configure, upgrade, and administer client and network hardware and software.
• Create documentation of procedures and maintenance of system configurations, network diagrams, and data-flow processes.
• Review and monitor enterprise security systems and take appropriate action and respond to alarms/alerts per agency policy and procedure.

Information Technology, Computer Literacy, Cybersecurity, Network Services, Network Administration, Equipment Operations, Customer Focus

• 60 mos. combined work experience in any combination of the following: evaluating effectiveness and risk of it processes, recommending changes in IT procedures to meet customer needs, and evaluating and/or researching hardware and/or software solutions and providing feedback to project team or higher-level staff including 12 mos. work experience in the primary technology specified by the agency in the position description & job posting.
• OR completion of associate core program in computer science or information systems; AND 42 mos. combined work experience in any combination of the following: evaluating effectiveness and risk of it processes, recommending changes in IT procedures to meet customer needs, and evaluating and/or researching hardware and/or software solutions and providing feedback to project team or higher-level staff including 12 mos. work experience in the primary technology specified by the agency in the position description & job posting.
• OR completion of undergraduate core program in computer science or information systems; AND 36 mos. combined work experience in any combination of the following: evaluating effectiveness and risk of it processes, recommending changes in IT procedures to meet customer needs, and evaluating and/or researching hardware and/or software solutions and providing feedback to project team or higher-level staff including 12 mos. work experience in the primary technology specified by the agency in the position description & job posting.
• OR equivalent of minimum class qualifications for employment noted above.
  
  Note:
  
  The official position description on file with the designated agency is to reflect the required, primary technology directly relating to the duties of the position. Only those applicants possessing the experience in the required, primary technology listed in the position description & job posting are to be considered for any vacancies posted. The job posting must list the required technology commensurate with the position in question.

Erika Carleski

Aug 3, 2026, 11:59:00 PM

Lazarus Government Center

United States of America-OHIO-Franklin County-Columbus

$41.81 - $61.49

Full-time

Classified

OCSEA

Computer Literacy, Network Administration, Equipment Operations, Information Technology, Network Services, Cybersecurity

Cloud Services Administration

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