SENIOR OPERATING SYSTEMS ANALYST/EMERGENCY APPOINTMENTS HOMELESSNESS

Full Job Description

We will begin accepting online applications on Wednesday, February 4, 2026, 8:00 AM (PT)

This examination will remain open until the needs of the service are met and is subject to close without prior notice

This announcement is a re-post to reopen the filing period

The LA County Board of Supervisors recently declared a local state of emergency for homelessness, and the County is working to revise and expand our response to help all who are affected.

We are looking for qualified and passionate individuals to help us in the mission of addressing issues like housing, mental health, and substance use.

If you are looking for a new career that will directly benefit the population of LA County, this may be the opportunity for you.The Department of Mental Health is seeking qualified candidates to fill emergency Senior Operating Systems Analyst vacancies related to the homelessness crisis.

Under the emergency order, applicants who meet the requirements may be hired for an initial period of up to 90 days, with an opportunity for permanent County employment.Before the end of your initial work period, you will be assessed on your work performance.

This assessment will be weighted 100%.

Requirements

• Responsible for the infrastructure architecture, design, management of one or more state-of-the-art, enterprise class technologies: operating systems, network, storage, server, application server, database, or security.
• Installs, configures, maintains, and upgrades operating systems
• Provides direction to lower level Operating Systems Analysts and Network Systems Administrator
• Uses network monitoring and management software to monitor system availability and performance and initiate corrective action
• Installs, services, and moves servers, networking devices, storage devices, and related equipment
• Provides technical consulting on long-range information systems planning and business continuity planning
• Assists in design and selection of disaster recovery solutions and leads implementation in a specific area of responsibility
• Leads the development of department-wide policies, procedures and documentation to improve overall server, disaster recovery and business continuity management
• Establishes quality assurance procedures and leads the development and maintenance of system documentation and operational procedures
• Creates and maintains complex custom scripts to improve server operation, application operation, and automation
• Performs risk assessment and impact analysis of vendor-provided patches and upgrades and recommends implementation accordingly
• Provides Tier-3 technical leadership or supervision and participates in the work of a team of system analysts and system engineers engaged in the installation, configuration, maintenance, and upgrades of hardware, operating systems, and associated system firmware and software
• Installs, configures and supports network equipment including routers, proxy servers, switches, WAN accelerators, VLANs, VoIP, DNS and DHCP
• Participates in research, evaluation, and integration of new network and telecommunication technologies, including wireless
• Leads network and operation projects or goals that are needed to be completed by the department.
• Serves as the technical expert for SDN, SAN and virtualization infrastructure.

Qualifications

SELECTION REQUIREMENTS:
Option I: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree* in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a closely related field, and two (2) years of recent**, full-time, paid experience in a centralized Information Technology organization*** configuring, analyzing, and maintaining complex systems, including configuring, planning, coordinating and implementing releases, upgrades, or changes to operating systems, servers, managed switches and related software, one year of which must be in a midrange or mainframe environment with formal change management, problem resolution procedures, and back-up and recovery plans. -OR-

Option II: Three (3) years of recent**, full-time, paid experience in a centralized information technology organization***configuring, analyzing, and maintaining complex systems, including configuring, planning, coordinating and implementing releases, upgrades, or changes to operating systems, servers, managed switches and related software, two years of which must be in a midrange or mainframe environment with formal change management, problem resolution procedures, and back-up and recovery plans.

You MUST meet the above requirement(s) at time of filing in order to be appointed to fill any vacancies related to this recruitment.

LICENSE: A valid California Class C Driver License or the ability to utilize an alternative method of transportation when needed to carry out job-related essential functions.

PHYSICAL CLASS 2–This class includes administrative and clerical positions requiring light physical effort that may include occasional light lifting to a 10 pound limit and some bending, stooping, or squatting. Considerable ambulation may be involved.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENT INFORMATION *In order to receive credit for the required Bachelor's degree or higher you MUST include a legible copy of the official diploma, official transcripts, or official letter from the accredited institution which shows the area of specialization, at the time of filing or within seven (7) calendar days from the date of filing application.

Please submit documentation to exams@dmh.lacounty.gov. We do not accept password-protected documents.

Ensure documents are unlocked before attaching to your application or send to the examinations unit at their email address.

Foreign degrees must be evaluated for equivalency to United States accredited institutions standards by an academic credential evaluation agency recognized by The National Association of Credential Evaluation Services or the Association of International Credential Evaluators, Inc. (AICE). See Employment Information under Accreditation Information.

**Recent experience are considered experience within the last five (5) years.

***A centralized Information Technology organization, is defined as, under the direction or guidance of the coordinated executive command structure for the department or major organizational unit, for providing comprehensive IT services including analysis, design, acquisition, and/or development, implementation, maintenance, or support of information systems; and in which the work performed is in direct relationship to the IT requirements and initiatives of the department or major organizational unit.

Additional Information

EXAMINATION CONTENT: Under the emergency order, applicants who meet the requirements may be hired for an initial period of up to 90 days, with an opportunity for permanent County employment.

Before the end of your initial work period, you will be assessed on your work performance. This assessment will be weighted 100%. Those who successfully pass the assessment will be considered for permanent appointment.

SPECIAL INFORMATION
Past and present mental health clients and family members are encouraged to apply.

APPLICATION AND FILING INFORMATION
Apply online by clicking on the green "Apply" button located on the top right corner of the screen.

Plan to submit your online application well in advance before the deadline as you may be required to verify your email address. This only needs to be done once per email address, and if you already have a job seeker account on www.governmentjobs.com/careers/lacounty, you can verify at any time by logging in and following the prompts. This is to enhance the security of your online application and to ensure you do not enter an incorrect email address.

Many important notifications will be sent electronically to the email address provided on the application. It is important that you provide a valid email address.

Please add exams@dmh.lacounty.gov as well as Selections@dmh.lacounty.gov, Recruitment@dmh.lacounty.gov, noreply@governmentjobs.com and info@governmentjobs.com to your email address and list of approved senders to prevent email notifications from being filtered as spam/junk/clutter mail.

Applicants have the ability to opt out of emails from LA County. If you unsubscribe, you will not receive any email notification for any examination for which you apply with Los Angeles County.

Regardless of whether you choose to unsubscribe, you can always check for notifications by logging into governmentjobs.com and viewing your profile inbox, which saves a copy of all emailed notices.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• Please note that ALL information included in the application materials is subject to VERIFICATION at any point during the examination and hiring process, including after an appointment has been made.
• FALSIFICATION of any information may result in DISQUALIFICATION or RESCISSION OF APPOINTMENT.
• Utilizing VERBIAGE from Class Specification and/or Selection Requirements serving as your description of duties WILL NOT be sufficient to meet the requirements. Doing so may result in an INCOMPLETE APPLICATION and you may be DISQUALIFIED.

FAIR CHANCE INITIATIVE:

The County of Los Angeles is a Fair Chance employer.

Except for a very limited number of positions, you will not be asked to provide information about a conviction history unless you receive a contingent offer of employment.

The County will make an individualized assessment of whether your conviction history has a direct or adverse relationship with the specific duties of the job, and consider potential mitigating factors, including, but not limited to, evidence and extent of rehabilitation, recency of the offense(s), and age at the time of the offense(s).

If asked to provide information about a conviction history, any convictions or court records which are exempted by a valid court order do not have to be disclosed.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with County Fair Chance Policies and the Fair Chance Act (Gov. Code Section 12952).

SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER LANGUAGE
Please include your Social Security Number for record control purposes. Federal law requires that all employed persons have a Social Security Number.

NO SHARING OF USER ID AND PASSWORD
All applicants must file their applications online using their own user ID and password. Using a family member or friend's user ID and password may erase a candidate's original application record.

COMPUTER AND INTERNET ACCESS AT LIBRARIES
For candidates who may not have regular access to a computer or the internet, applications can be completed on computers at public libraries throughout Los Angeles County.

DEPARTMENT CONTACT
Department Contact Name: Celia Yeung, Exam Analyst
Department Contact Phone: 323-970-4249 or 213-972-7034
Department Contact Email: exams@dmh.lacounty.gov

ADA Coordinator Phone 213-972-7034
Teletype Phone 800-735-2922
California Relay Services Phone 800-735-2922