Remote Work is available with only 1-2 days per month of physical presence in the office required. When physical presence is required, employees are responsible for travel expenses to their office site. Additional Hybrid Telework and Alternative Work Week Schedules are also available.

University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) employees may qualify to transfer their current and previous employment credit to State of California employment through CalPERS. Human Resources can help with this process upon employment or you can reach out to CalPERS for inquiries at (888) 225-7377.

Under general supervision of the Information Technology Supervisor II, the Information Technology Associate (ITA) supports the department Information Security Office (ISO). The Department of Health Care Access (HCAI) and Information (Department) must comply with federal and state security regulations including California State Administration Manual Information Security Sections and compliance with NIST Security requirements.

The ITA will be committed to adopting the best practices of information security industry as promulgated by the private, state and federal entities in order to secure confidential and sensitive information, to counteract hacker attacks, and to protect against malware infection throughout the organization. The mission is to ensure a secure computing environment that will provide availability, confidentiality, and integrity of information for HCAI and the Health Care Payments Data Program (HPD). The ITA works within the ISO unit which is comprised of security analysts and technologists to support the performance of a wide array of security related tasks.

The Information Security Office program elements include the following:

1. Promote awareness through Information Technology (IT) security training / education, and adherence to IT security policies and best practices.
2. Coordinate the IT security incident response team to respond to and resolve incidents.
3. Perform IT security monitoring and event correlation of systems and networks.
4. Perform periodic IT security assessments of systems and network components.
5. Assist customers with IT security related compliance with State and Federal requirements to ensure a secure environment for networks, servers, applications, interfaces and user data requirements.

Develop and implement governance and ensure compliance standards are met.

Do you have the following education or experience?

Eighteen months as an Information Technology Technician; or

Two years of general information technology experience performing technical, analytical, or support tasks for computer systems or services in any of the six domains or emerging information technology fields; or

60 semester units (or 90 quarter units) from an accredited college or university including at least 15 semester units (or 22.5 quarter units) of information technology or closely related course work; or

Any equivalent combination of experience and education.

When using education to meet minimum qualifications, education must include the specified information technology or closely related course work.

If so, you may meet the minimum qualifications. Apply today!