Top IT Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Leads the strategy, engineering, delivery, and operations of global enterprise infrastructure across networking, cloud platforms, on-premises systems, data centers, identity, and automation. Manages Network Engineering, Cloud Platform Engineering, and IT Infrastructure Engineering organizations; establishes service-management practices, resiliency standards, security controls, budgets, vendor relationships, and operational metrics. Partners with cybersecurity and business teams to deliver scalable, secure, cost-efficient infrastructure and leads major incident response and modernization initiatives.

Manage full-lifecycle recruiting for technical and IT roles, including sourcing passive candidates, building talent pipelines, partnering with hiring managers, screening applicants, conducting initial interviews, and guiding candidates through the hiring process. The role also provides market intelligence on IT talent and compensation while recruiting for positions such as program managers, AI architects, AI engineers, technical product managers, and product owners.

Lead enterprise automation and agentic AI initiatives, owning the automation and integration stack and Center of Excellence. Build secure, reusable workflows and integration frameworks using platforms such as Zapier, Claude, and Glean. Establish governance, standards, documentation, and prioritization practices while partnering with IT, innovation teams, engineers, business stakeholders, and executives. Identify operational inefficiencies, develop automation roadmaps, and deliver scalable systems with secure data handling, access controls, human oversight, and measurable business impact.

Designs, implements, and operates multi-region cloud and hybrid networking infrastructure. Develops Terraform modules and infrastructure standards, supports AWS architectures, cloud migrations, and data center exits, and contributes to architecture reviews, compliance-aware delivery, CI/CD enablement, documentation, and observability. Collaborates with platform, security, architecture, compliance, and engineering teams to improve scalability, automation, reliability, and operational efficiency.

Teaches undergraduate and graduate information systems courses in an online and blended environment. Develops syllabi, lesson plans, course materials, assignments, and examinations; facilitates learning through technology; grades consistently; provides timely feedback; supports students; and integrates responsible AI practices. Requires a doctorate, relevant graduate credits, applied information systems experience, technical expertise, and strong communication skills.

Supports identity and access management, troubleshoots internal business systems, resolves technical tickets, validates system functionality, manages engineering escalations, supports critical incidents, automates workflows, and documents resolutions. The role works across Salesforce, Amazon Connect, Okta, Jira, and other tools while partnering with support, product, and engineering teams to improve system reliability and user experience.

Supports identity and access management, troubleshoots technical issues across Salesforce, Amazon Connect, Okta, and internal systems, and resolves tickets for internal support teams. The role validates system functionality, manages Jira escalations, partners with engineering during incidents, automates workflows, documents solutions, and identifies recurring issues for systemic improvement. It requires strong technical troubleshooting, communication, organization, and the ability to interpret code, logs, and system configurations.

Leads a Citizen IT team supporting Salesforce and PEGA applications through configuration, administration, troubleshooting, reporting, workflow management, training, and change management. Oversees Salesforce business analysts, partners with development and service leadership, improves data quality and processes, monitors performance, establishes KPIs, manages stakeholders, and drives platform adoption, productivity, and client satisfaction.

Supports People Operations and IT logistics for a remote company, including equipment shipping and tracking, onboarding and offboarding coordination, HRIS and ATS data maintenance, documentation, timecard and I-9 support, and general administrative projects.

Leads the creation of Seeq’s IT and enterprise go-to-market capability, including buyer strategy, positioning, offers, messaging, commercialization, campaigns, sales plays, executive engagement, and cross-functional execution. The role develops measurement frameworks, influences product and portfolio decisions, supports enterprise sales, and builds the operating model and team structure needed to scale the function.

Supports corporate IT operations through help desk ticket triage, hardware setup, account provisioning, onboarding and offboarding, network troubleshooting, endpoint management, AV support, inventory tracking, documentation, and cloud infrastructure tasks. The intern assists with LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, VPN, switches, firewalls, MDM tools, AWS, and Azure under senior staff guidance while communicating with users and collaborating through Jira and team communication platforms.

Provides first-line technical support for hardware, software, operating systems, networks, user accounts, and company applications. Responsibilities include onboarding and offboarding employees, managing access permissions, administering collaboration and conferencing tools, handling IT procurement and inventory, documenting solutions, maintaining support records, and training users. The specialist supports Windows, macOS, JumpCloud, Google Workspace, Atlassian applications, Slack, and Zoom Rooms.

Provides frontline IT support across hardware, software, access, networking, and account issues. Configures and deploys devices, supports onboarding and offboarding, manages Google Workspace accounts and permissions, assists with endpoint security and device management, maintains asset inventories, documents solutions, and escalates complex issues. The role supports lab and office sites in Watsonville, with occasional travel to South San Francisco.

Lead strategy and operations for high-availability enterprise platforms (HP NonStop, Stratus, mainframe, Linux/x86). Drive modernization, resiliency, capacity planning, incident/problem management, security and compliance, vendor and budget management, and engineering leadership for 24x7 mission-critical infrastructure. Present metrics to executives and coordinate cross-functional initiatives.

Supports IT solution design and implementation, analyzes cybersecurity protocols and recommends improvements, and collaborates with data science teams to analyze data and generate actionable insights. The internship provides hands-on experience, mentorship, professional development, and exposure to aerospace technology. Candidates must be enrolled in a relevant bachelor's or higher degree program, maintain a 3.0 GPA, and graduate in December 2027 or later.

Summer intern assisting with IT solution design and implementation, supporting cybersecurity initiatives through security protocol analysis, and collaborating with data science teams to analyze data and generate actionable insights. The role offers hands-on experience, mentorship, and professional development within Honeywell Aerospace. Candidates must remain enrolled in a relevant degree program, maintain at least a 3.0 GPA, and meet U.S. person requirements.

Summer 2027 interns will support IT solution design, cybersecurity initiatives, and data science projects at Honeywell Aerospace. Responsibilities include implementing business-focused IT solutions, analyzing security protocols and recommending improvements, and collaborating with data science teams to generate actionable insights. Interns receive hands-on experience, mentorship, professional development, relocation benefits, and short-term housing when eligible. The role is available at multiple U.S. locations.

Designs, implements, secures, and maintains enterprise cloud and on-premises infrastructure supporting Department of Defense missions. Responsibilities include Azure and Microsoft 365 administration, virtualization, networking, troubleshooting, system hardening, vulnerability remediation, disaster recovery, infrastructure upgrades, documentation, architecture reviews, and cybersecurity compliance. Provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, collaborates with government customers, and supports highly available enterprise environments.

Owns identity, access, device, SaaS, automation, and IT systems for a remote organization. Responsibilities include Okta administration, macOS and Windows MDM, employee lifecycle workflows, ticketing, Zoom and Zoom Phone, AI governance, SaaS discovery, 1Password, security controls, documentation, dashboards, and SOC 2 evidence. The role combines hands-on IT support with systems architecture, integrations, automation, and security-minded operational ownership.

Own IT internal audit projects and portions of the SOX program, including ITGC and ITAC testing, risk assessment, controls evaluation, remediation, and audit reporting. Partner with audit, finance, engineering, process owners, external auditors, and co-sourcing partners. Help establish an AI audit methodology and implement AI-enabled audit efficiencies while maintaining quality, independence, and reliability.

Develop and advance ServiceNow ITSM workflows, automations, scoped applications, service catalogs, CMDB structures, integrations, and platform governance. Configure and troubleshoot REST/SOAP APIs, IntegrationHub, MID Servers, data imports, upgrades, cloning, and Automated Test Framework execution. Collaborate with product owners and technical stakeholders in Agile/Scrum environments, contribute to solution design and proposals, lead ceremonies, mentor staff, estimate work, and improve delivery methodologies.

Leads complex CMS healthcare operations programs supporting Affordable Care Act policy and implementation. Manages remote teams, workflows, schedules, metrics, reporting, governance, regulatory tracking, continuous improvement, client relationships, stakeholder communications, and team development. Requires extensive CMS experience, healthcare policy expertise, team leadership, and familiarity with JIRA and Confluence. This is a remote role with 10–25% travel and Public Trust eligibility requirements.

Owns current- and target-state architecture for enterprise IT Management capabilities. Develops cross-functional capability roadmaps spanning systems, workflows, data, processes, and modernization initiatives. Partners with business and technology stakeholders to align standards, dependencies, sequencing, investments, and operating models. Guides delivery teams toward coherent enterprise outcomes and supports architecture governance. The role requires extensive architecture experience, stakeholder influence, regulated-environment knowledge, BIZBOK capability modeling, and TOGAF ADM knowledge.

Provides cybersecurity, vulnerability management, and Splunk administration support for DOE business applications. Responsibilities include developing security policies and logging standards, creating Splunk dashboards and queries, analyzing security events, conducting vulnerability scans, securing applications and databases, investigating issues, and documenting systems and procedures. The role requires collaboration with system owners and application teams to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities while supporting compliance with government security mandates.

Leads the strategy, architecture, and implementation of enterprise AI-assisted and cloud-native software development capabilities. Evaluates AI tools, establishes engineering standards, develops proof-of-concept solutions, guides technical architecture, and coaches engineering teams. The role requires full-stack development, cloud platforms, CI/CD, DevSecOps, secure coding, distributed systems, and experience delivering mission software across complex programs.