Exempt to Permanent – IS Engineer-Principal (1044) Citywide (E161489)

Company Description

THIS IS A CITYWIDE RECRUITMENT FOR CURRENT CITY EMPLOYEES ONLY

This is an Exempt to Permanent position in accordance with Class-Based Test (CBT) Civil Service Rules. This recruitment is restricted to current exempt employees of the City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco Unified School District, or San Francisco City College, working within the 1044 Principal IS Engineer classification.

This is a Citywide Exam posting. Your application to this posting is an application to take a citywide exam. If you pass the exam, you will be emailed your score and ranking on the eligible candidate list. When a department has an open position with this job classification they may use this eligible list to hire for that position. Departments will contact candidates from this list to gauge interest in their specific roles. Learn more about the City’s hiring process here: https://careers.sf.gov/knowledge/process/

• Application Opening: November 10, 2025
• Application Deadline: No earlier than November 21, 2025
• Compensation Range: $165,334 to $207,974 (Classification and Compensation Info)
• Recruitment ID: E2P-1044-E161489
• FOR CURRENT CITY EMPLOYEES ONLY. This is an Exempt to Permanent position in accordance with Class-Based Test (CBT) Civil Service Rules. This recruitment is restricted to current exempt employees of the City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco Unified School District, or San Francisco City College, working within the posted classification

San Francisco is a vibrant and dynamic city, on the forefront of economic growth & innovation, urban development, arts & entertainment, as well as social issues & change. This rich tapestry of culture and ideas is sustained by our City's commitment to heighten the quality of life for the diverse population of San Franciscans and residents of the greater Bay Area. Our employees play an important role not only in making our City what it is today, but also in shaping the future of San Francisco.

Job Description

Under general direction, provides direct ongoing supervision to other IS Engineers. and/or provides technical leadership and direction and assumes technical responsibility for completion of major projects, or serves as the top technical authority for one or more related specialties. Performs and reviews complex work involving analysis, planning, designing, implementation, maintenance, troubleshooting and enhancement of complex large systems or networks consisting of a combination that may include mainframes, mini-computers, LANS, WANs and the physical and logical components that integrate these systems together as an enterprise networking backbone. Serves as the lead technical architect and systems integrator for large complex systems or networks.

Examples of Important and Essential Duties include but are not limited to the following:

1. Analyze and evaluate systems software, hardware and communications strategies. Research and conduct feasibility studies on new hardware and software. Provide cost and time allocation estimates. Make recommendations based on these studies.

2. Establish hardware and software standards. Participate in technical committees.

3. May monitor, coordinate and assist in developing the work unit's budget.

4. Analyze and recommend procedures consistent with departmental directives, policies and regulations.

5. Develop strategic plans to meet data processing and technology needs; conduct capacity planning studies to project hardware and software needs.

6. Direct and monitor technical support activities related to complex large systems or networks. Troubleshoot and support the system or network in order to maintain the system or network's integrity and reliability. Contact software and hardware vendors when necessary.

7. Provide problem determination, corrective measures and technical support to anyone utilizing services and functions provided by the system or network. This includes but is not limited to applications programmers, business analysts, operations staff, help desk staff, technicians, administrators, end users- and managers.

8. Oversee data backup and recovery; ensure that sufficient generations of backup are available for data restoration.

9. Determine requirements for the development or enhancement of large complex systems or networks that serve as a data processing backbone for the City and County of San Francisco's information technologies infrastructures. May research and conduct feasibility studies on new technologies.

10. Design, plan, integrate, test, implement, document and enhance the physical an