Information Technology Specialist at San Diego County Sheriff's Office

Salary - $43,908.80 - $94,099.20 Annually

Location - County of San Diego, CA

Job Type - Regular - Full time

Job Number -

Department - Sheriff

Division - Management Services

Opening Date - 07/23/2025

Closing Date - 8/1/2025 11:59 PM Pacific

Are you a service-oriented technology problem-solver with a zest for learning new systems and technologies?

We’re Hiring for the position of INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST

Read On…This may be the role for you!

• June 2026 – 4.49% increase to base pay (3% Across-the-Board + 1.49% Market Adjustment)
• June 2027 – 4.49% increase to base pay (3% Across-the-Board + 1.49% Market Adjustment)

Information Technology Specialists perform a variety of technical support duties pertaining to computer systems and related equipment and may serve as a first responder for computer, network, and hardware/software issues. Information Technology Specialists may serve as the technical representative and liaison between departments and the information technology (IT) service provider to provide effective technical support for network services and IT business processes.

The IT Specialist offers technical support to staff and diagnoses errors, installs, and updates computer hardware/ software; analyzes and resolves system/application-related support requests, including specialties such as Help Desk, Web, and ERP. The current opening for this position is with the Sheriff’s Office.

Job offers for selected candidates will be made shortly after interviews. Candidates should be prepared to immediately complete background paperwork, upon receipt of a job offer.

The timeline for this recruitment is outlined below. Please note that dates are approximate and are dependent upon the successful completion of each step of the process.

• Job Offer and Background Process begins:
  Shortly after the interviews.
• Pre-employment Medical Screening:
  Approximately 3 days following successful background investigation results.
• Anticipated
  
  Start Date:
  
  Start date will be based upon the successful completion of medical screening or other mutually agreed upon date.

If you are not selected for this interview process, you may have the opportunity to compete for future vacancies. The eligible list of qualified candidates established from this recruitment may be used for vacancies in various County of San Diego departments IT Specialists may be utilized in different ways depending on the department in which they are placed. You will learn more if you are invited to an interview.

The ideal candidate for IT Specialist must have working knowledge of relevant operating systems and technological products/ services with a vision for using those tools to improve the overall user experience and customer service. An effective IT Specialist will possess problem-solving and critical thinking skills, along with a desire to implement new processes and recommend enhancements to current systems, and the ability to identify troubleshoot, and resolve system and application issues.

The ideal candidate for the IT Specialist position will have good organization, time management, and prioritization skills to work on a wide array of competing projects.

You will be exposed to computer screens in an office environment. Depending on the Department you are placed with, this position may require on-call support of systems for the County s 24/7 computing environment.

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