Cloud Developer and Database Administrator

Job Description and Duties

This position supports the California Department of Public Health’s (CDPH) mission and strategic plan by creating customer focused solutions that are responsive and agile; supporting modern infrastructure, tools, architecture, and standards; to effectively provide efficient services following service level agreements. The Information Technology Services Division (ITSD) leverages data and technology to create sustainability across CDPH by creating efficient solutions that meet customer expectations and reduce waste. As well as creating innovative solutions, strengthening partnerships and collaborations, and embracing technology.

Under general direction of the Information Technology Manager (ITM) I, Chief, Informatics Data Exchange and Applications Section (IDEAS), the Information Technology Specialist (ITS) II serves as a solution architect developing and supporting multiple information technology (IT) systems, applications and databases, on-premises and cloud solution. The ITS II is responsible for planning, designing, developing, implementing, and supporting solution architectures for existing and new applications and databases, networking, data integrity and information security. The ITS II performs as an experienced cloud developer, develops new cloud solutions and/or existing solutions, migrates on-prem solutions to cloud, maintains and supports. The ITS II acts independently in a highly complex technical specialist position and leads IT systems support and projects. The ITS II maintains working knowledge of various industry trends and technology solutions.

The ITS II proactively learns new concepts, understands system-to-system relationships and interfaces, and maintains cooperative working relationships with business partners and the IT team to identify goals and objectives. The ITS II possesses strong organizational, analytical, and verbal/written communication skills; works both independently and in a team environment; participates in meetings, documentations, and provides status reports; and completes work assignments in an effective, accurate, and timely manner. The ITS II keeps up with current and industry trends, standards and best practices related to system engineering.

The ITS II ensures application architecture and enterprise-wide shared on-premise and cloud application services align with CDPH standards and vision by designing technology solutions that enable the department’s ability to make key service decisions that are backed by data and are focused on public health outcomes, while ensuring the most complex/critical information interoperability is established between other CDPH programs, state departments, Federal programs, and external vendor Software as a Service (SaaS) service and in-cloud platform providers.

The ITS II performs duties within the Software Engineering, System Engineering, and Business Technology Management domains.

In July 2025, the State of California implemented the Personal Leave Program (PLP) 2025. This program temporarily reduces employees’ monthly base pay in exchange for paid leave credits. This position is subject to PLP 2025 and will have a monthly base pay reduction of 3% in exchange for 5 hours of leave credits through June 2027. The salary ranges shown on this job posting do not reflect the salary reduction.

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Working Conditions

Telework Information:

This position may be eligible for telework. The amount of telework permitted is at the discretion of the Department and is subject to change, consistent with CDPH’s Telework Program. All employees who telework are required to be California residents in accordance with Government Code 14200. Candidates who reside outside of the state of California may be interviewed; however, the selected candidate must have a primary residency in the state of California prior to appointment (and continue to maintain California residency) as a condition of employment. Failure to meet this requirement may result in the job offer being rescinded.

Travel may be required for this position. Reimbursement for travel takes into consideration an employee’s designated headquarters, as reflected in the duty statement, and is subject to regulations and bargaining unit contract provisions. All commute expenses to the designated headquarters office will be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

The headquarters office location for this position is identified in the attached duty statement.

Special Requirements

For experience/education to qualify during the application screening process, and to ensure that minimum qualifications can be determined, applicants should include all employment history on the Employment Application (STD 678) and/or Resume, including detailed job descriptions, hours worked per week , and start/end dates (MM/DD/YYYY) . Application packages without this information will experience delayed processing times and your eligibility for this position may be impacted.

A completed State application (STD. 678) and any other relevant documents (e.g. unofficial transcript, copy of degree, resume, etc.) should be submitted electronically via your CalCareers Account. Please reference Job Control #(529475) and indicate the basis of your eligibility in the Examination(s) or Job Title(s) section. SROA and surplus candidates should submit a copy of their letter with their application . Please remove any confidential information (i.e. social security number, date of birth) from your documents prior to submission.

Complete Application Packages (including your Examination/Employment Application (STD 678) and applicable or required documents) must be submitted to apply for this Job Posting. Application Packages may be submitted electronically through your CalCareers Account at Submitting an electronic application through your CalCareers account is strongly recommended since electronic applications will be received/processed faster than other methods of filing. Please submit only one application.

If you are unable to submit your application electronically through your CalCareers account, please email [email protected] for assistance and a CDPH Human Resources Division staff member will contact you to assist with the online application process or, a hard copy application package may be submitted through an alternative method as explained in the How to Apply section below. When submitting your application in hard copy, a completed copy of the Application Package listing must be included.

Desirable Qualifications

In addition to evaluating each candidate's relative ability, as demonstrated by quality and breadth of experience, the following factors will provide the basis for competitively evaluating each candidate:

• College degree in relevant IT field.

Expert working knowledge and experience with:

• Enterprise System Development Architecture and Security.
• Cloud hosting services and offerings at the California Department of Technology Management Cloud Services data center, AWS, and Azure.
• Clustered multi-node platform support, Failover and Disaster Recovery Design and Architecture, database administration.
• Product support of Linux, Windows server and network-based platforms, services, and technologies.
• Various programming language and tools (e.g., APIM, Azure Data Factory, Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Azure DevOps, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Snowflake, Databricks, SQL Server, Power BI, Windows Server, Visual Studio, ASP.NET, C#, Python, PowerShell, Kusto, SQL).
• Researching, adapting to new technology, problem solving, and resolving challenging technical issues.
• Project Management.

• State IT policies, guidelines, and procedures.

• IT industry best practices and emerging technology trends.

• Systems development lifecycle and Agile methodology.

Benefits

Benefit information can be found on the CalHR website and the CalPERS website.

Statement of Qualifications (SOQ) Instructions:

The SOQ must be titled “Statement of Qualifications” at the top of the first page, typed in a minimum of 12-point font, single spaced, on standard sized paper (8.5" X 11"), and no more than 2 pages in length. Cover pages, cover letters, and resumes do not take place of the SOQ. Applications submitted without the required SOQ will be considered incomplete and will not be considered for this position. Please answer the questions in the order as they appear.

Statement of Qualifications Instructions:

1. Describe how your education, training, experience, and skills meet the desirable qualifications and duties described to qualify you for the position. Please include an example of an enterprise project you worked on involving technologies listed under desirable qualifications and level of your contributions to that project.
2. Describe your experience with cloud architecture, design, solution development, support, and maintenance including standards, procedures, and best practices. What best practices did you follow for CI/CD pipelines development in a cloud environment?
3. Describe your experience in data management activities and tools used including data warehouse, data migration, code repository and ETL (extract/transform/load). Please include whether your related experience is in cloud or on-prem support.

Required Application Package Documents

The following items are required to be submitted with your application. Applicants who do not submit the required items timely may not be considered for this job:

• Current version of the State Examination/Employment Application STD Form 678 (when not applying electronically), or the Electronic State Employment Application through your Applicant Account at All Experience and Education relating to the Minimum Qualifications listed on the Classification Specification should be included to demonstrate how you meet the Minimum Qualifications for the position.
• Resume is required and must be included.
• Statement of Qualifications - Please see Statement of Qualifications instructions below at end of posting . Any applications received that do not provide a written response to the SOQ may be rejected .