State of California - California Employment Development Department

Job Description and Duties

THIS POSITION MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR A HYBRID WORK SCHEDULE. THE AMOUNT OF TELEWORK IS AT THE DISCRETION OF THE DEPARTMENT AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AS BUSINESS NEEDS ARISE.

The Employment Development Department (EDD) has an immediate opening for a Cybersecurity Architect (Information Technology Specialist III). This role involves applying state-of-the-art cybersecurity, fraud, and vulnerability management best practices to design and develop enterprise-wide protection architecture that can identify, address and mitigate fraud and vulnerability risks.

Key responsibilities include: being able to communicate well as a technical project lead and mentor, developing technical requirements, designing secure solutions, developing detection and prevention tools, collaborating on security risk assessments and audits, developing and maintaining documentation, security systems configuration and administration, enhancing operations, conducting fraud and forensic investigations, monitoring system capabilities, vulnerability and threat testing, incident response, staff training, and EDD modernization.

The Cybersecurity Architect:

• Follows administrative direction from the Cybersecurity Operations Section Chief with a high degree of independence and expertise.
• Has an advanced enterprise-wide level of understanding of EDD's information technology (IT) architecture.
• Applies a master-level of technical IT expertise to connect strategic intent and practical technical application in the development of a full range of fraud detection, threat detection and prevention, vulnerability management, incident response, resiliency, recovery policies, cybersecurity standards, analytics and concepts governing methods for data storage to support incident and fraud detection.
• Collaborates with IT Branch Divisions and EDD business units in the planning, designing, testing and implementing a cybersecurity threat detection and mitigation architecture.
• Develops prerequisites for networks, firewalls, routers, and other network devices.
• Performs vulnerability and fraud assessments, security testing, and risk analysis.
• Continuously researches and implements updated security standards and best practices in compliance with applicable state and federal laws, rules and regulations.
• Recognizes the criticality of understanding human behavior and its role in creating possible fraud, threats, and vulnerabilities, and addresses them in the architecture framework.
• Mentors and coaches technical staff in the Cybersecurity Operations Section in the field of cybersecurity as needed.

This position may be eligible for a hybrid work schedule. The amount of telework is at the discretion of the Department and is subject to change as business needs arise. Employees are required to report to their headquarters office on their assigned in-office days. Travel expenses to and from the assigned headquarters are the responsibility of the employee.

Effective July 1, 2025, specific Bargaining Units and associated Excluded State employees are subject to a salary reduction between 2% - 4.62% in exchange for hours in the Personal Leave Program 2025 (PLP 2025) per month. For more details, please click here to visit the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) website.

Position exists at 1416 9th Street Sacramento, CA 95814 ARU 390

If you have questions about the actual position, please contact the “Hiring Unit Contact” listed below under Contact Information

You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement.

Benefits

Benefit information can be found on the CalHR website, www.calhr.ca.gov, and the CalPERS website, www.calpers.ca.gov.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The State of California is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.

It is an objective of the State of California to achieve a drug-free work place. Any applicant for state employment will be expected to behave in accordance with this objective because the use of illegal drugs is inconsistent with the law of the State, the rules governing Civil Service, and the special trust placed in public servants.