It Professional - Network Administration

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.

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.

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…