Chief Information Technology Officer jobs in Santa Maria, CA

Proven experience planning, directing, and coordinating infrastructure technology activities and corresponding multi-million, multi-year investment countywide. Responsibilities include:

• Creation, design, management, monitoring and support of all IT infrastructure and services.
• Proven experience leading a large multi-disciplinary team of compute, storage, backup, network, and radio communications experts and vendors to support and continuously improve the County’s robust and resilient network, compute, and radio communications environments to ensure reliable services to 3,000 employees by effectively monitoring and managing the performance of over 900 servers, 180 network locations, 4,000 VoIP phones, 100 miles of fiber, 20 radio communication sites, 2,000 daily radio subscribers, and over 10,000 total devices active on the network day in and day out.
• A personable, knowledgeable, critical thinker who can effectively build and maintain strong relationships with 26 County departments and executives, local law enforcement agencies, the State of California, Tier 1 vendors, and negotiate and manage multi-million-dollar, multi-year contracts while searching for opportunities to leverage our investments.
• Capable of building a three-to-five-year broadband, cloud, and hosted infrastructure strategic and operational roadmaps, corresponding ongoing operational cost and return on investment.
• A dedicated, caring, good listener leader, who is committed to implementing creative ways to train, retrain, and retain talent and maximize the use of internal and external resources. 

A combination of education, training, and experience resulting in the required knowledge, skills, and abilities. An example of qualifying education and experience includes:

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, business administration or other closely related field, AND; 
• Eight years of progressively responsible experience in information systems management which includes experience in a variety of IT disciplines and/or accountability for strategic and fiscal planning.

Certain positions within this classification may require driving. When driving is an essential function of the position, a valid CALIFORNIA driver license will be required at the time of appointment and must be maintained throughout employment.