It Professional - Database Administration

This recruitment is for an IT Professional 3 with the State Public Charter School Authority (SPCSA). This incumbent will serve as the Nevada Student Information System (currently Infinite Campus) liaison for the SPCSA to the Nevada Department of Education, charter schools in the SPCSA portfolio, and the Infinite Campus vendor. This position is also responsible for providing Infinite Campus support, training, and guidance to charter schools in the SPCSA portfolio.

Finally, this position will design, implement, and maintain local database systems to house Infinite Campus, SPCSA, and state student data to facilitate data collections, validations, analyses, and reporting.

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.

Eligibility:
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, management information systems, or closely related field and three years of professional IT experience relevant to the duties of the position which may include computer operations, systems administration, network administration, database administration, applications analysis and development, and/or information security, one year of which was at the journey level; OR one year of relevant experience as an IT Professional II in Nevada State service;

OR an equivalent combination of education and experience as described above.

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 general direction, incumbents perform advanced journey level duties and may train, supervise, and evaluate the performance of subordinate staff and/or serve as a project leader as assigned. Incumbents may function as a unit leader to include directing the activities of a branch IT support unit, overseeing projects of limited scope, and coordinating activities with other work groups. This is a supervisory level for Computer Operations and the journey level for Information Security positions.

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.

• Detailed knowledge of: physical and logical database structure and design; database backup and recovery scenarios and methodologies; database security management and data integrity.
• Working knowledge of: computer and network operating systems, computer hardware, and communications systems; database and operating system performance tuning monitoring; business practices and procedures; customer service standards and procedures; business software, systems analysis, systems design, system development lifecycle, and information architecture to effectively design and create databases; structured query language.
• Ability to: coordinate system design, applications and software programming, and computer operations activities relative to the database environment.

Recruiter Contact Information:
Susan Ashley - q.ashley.gov