IT CYBERSECURITY SPECIALIST (NETWORK/INFOSEC)

Duties

• IS Security Certification: Evaluating IS security features against requirements. Includes developing certification and accreditation plans/procedures, documenting deficiencies, reporting corrective actions, and recommending security improvements.
• Network and System Admin: Monitors network systems/servers to ensure service availability. Troubleshoots hardware, software, phone, and security system malfunctions to resolve operational issues and rapidly restore services.
• Perform touch-labor support (e.g., port configuration, port security lockouts, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) reservations, encryptor setups) and troubleshoot physical links/outages.
• Configure, set up, and maintain communications security (COMSEC) equipment and encryptor configurations to ensure secure data communications across classified and unclassified networks.
• IT Program Management: Coordinated management and oversight of multiple IT projects. Integrates dependent schedules, deliverables, and related activities to ensure alignment and program-wide success.
• Requirements Management: Identifies, analyzes, specifies, and manages functional/infrastructure requirements. Translates functional needs into technical designs and presents alternative technologies or approaches.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.
• This national security position, which may require access to classified information, requires a favorable suitability review and security clearance as a condition of employment. Failure to maintain security eligibility may result in termination.
• In accordance with the DoD 8140 policy series, the position is subject to completing Foundational Qualifications in 9 months and completing Residential Qualification requirements overall in 12 months.
• This is a drug tested position.
• This position requires an OGE Form 450, Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, upon appointment and may be required to file annually.
• This position requires a Top Secret/ Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance.

Qualifications

In order to qualify for this position, you must meet the requirements described below.

Basic Requirements:
Attention to Detail - experience reviewing my own information technology-related work or data to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency with standards. My work or the data that I produce is typically reviewed by my supervisor or another colleague.
Customer Service - experience having brief contact with customers to provide information about available information technology products and services and providing customers with standard products or routine services to address information technology needs
Oral Communication - experience informing my supervisor and other IT staff of the status of information technology systems, projects, or daily operations, including the status of information technology systems, projects, or daily operations, including the communication of basic technical information to a non-technical audience
Problem Solving - identifying or selecting from a number of alternatives to address routine information technology-related issues by gathering and applying information from standard sources that provide a limited number of solutions.

Qualifying Experience:
To qualify at the GG-11/12, your resume must describe at least one year of experience that demonstrates the competencies necessary for immediate success in the position. Experience refers to any paid or unpaid experience, including volunteer work and Military service, that would be considered equivalent to work normally performed at the next lower grade level in the federal service.

For this position, qualifying experience is defined as: To qualify at the GG-11 level, applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience which demonstrates: (1) Network Administration & Operations Support: Experience performing daily operations and touch-labor support for local area networks (LANs), including configuring client/server software, troubleshooting physical links, and executing standard tasks such as port configurations, port security lockouts, and maintaining DHCP reservations. (2) Network Security & COMSEC: Experience assisting with network security measures, including installing and maintaining standard communications security (COMSEC) equipment and encryptor configurations to protect data communications. (3) Project Coordination & Requirements Gathering: Experience collaborating on IT project deliverables, gathering functional requirements, and responding to technical support inquiries from staff or vendors to restore services and maintain network availability.

To qualify at the GG-12 level, applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience which demonstrates: (1) Advanced Network Engineering & Diagnostics: Experience designing, configuring, and maintaining complex local area network (LAN) environments, virtual switching networks, IP routing, VPNs, and VoIP systems; and analyzing network traffic, diagnostics, and performance to direct network software upgrades and fixes. (2) Information Systems Security & Compliance: Experience evaluating IT systems and networks for compliance with security policies, developing security certification and accreditation documentation, and coordinating with Information Assurance Managers (IAM) to protect, restore, and secure systems across diverse platforms. (3) IT Program & Project Management: Experience providing project oversight, managing multiple integrated IT projects, coordinating dependent schedules and deliverables, and monitoring server/network administration to ensure continuous service availability. (4) Requirements Analysis & Acquisition Support: Experience translating complex business and functional requirements into technical design specifications; and assisting with IT acquisitions by drafting requirements, market research, and Statements of Work (SOWs).

Candidates must describe how they meet the qualifying experience and/or selective placement factor(s) within the body of their resume. All qualifications must be met within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement.

Education

GG-11 Substitution of Education for Experience: Three full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree may be substituted to meet the qualifying experience requirement. . If you are using education to substitute for the qualifying experience, you must submit transcripts at the time you apply.

There is no substitution of education for the qualifying experienceat the GG-12 grade level.

To be creditable, education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university. You must report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions that are recognized by the .

Foreign Education: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services at the time of application. .

Additional information

• This position is in the Excepted Service and does NOT convey eligibility to be converted to the Competitive Service. It is being recruited under 10 U.S.C. 1599f into the Cyber Excepted Service (CES) personnel system.
• If you are a current Federal Career/Career-Conditional employee, you will be placed on an Excepted appointment.
• This appointment does not confer eligibility to be non-competitively converted to an appointment in the competitive service.
• A three year trial period may be required if you have not previously completed a trial or probationary period in the excepted or competitive service.
• Telework availability will be based upon the mission requirements and supervisory determination
• Individuals tentatively selected for drug testing designated positions at the Defense Information Systems Agency will be required to submit to urinalysis for illegal drugs prior to appointment or placement.
• This is a covered position and the person selected for this position must complete an OGE Form 450, Confidential Financial Disclosure Report within 30 days of appointment pursuant to 5 CFR 2634.903(b) (DoD 5500.7).
• We may use this announcement to fill additional vacancies within 90 days of the closing date.
• Moving costs MAY be paid.
• The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 makes certain reimbursements/payments taxable. For information on these changes and the Relocation Income Tax Allowance (RITA), for which some appointees are eligible, click .
• Recruitment, relocation, or retention incentives MAY be authorized.
• This position is covered under DoD Manual 8140 which will be subject to future Cyber Workforce requirements as defined by the Manual.
• The Department of Defense (DoD) policy on employment of annuitants issued March 18, 2004 will be used in determining eligibility of annuitants. It applies to former Federal civilian employees receiving a retirement annuity from the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund that are hired within the DoD on or after November 24, 2003. The policy also applies to annuitants (appointed in DoD on/or after November 24, 2003) who move from one position to another within DoD through voluntary reassignment, promotion, change to lower grade or transfer between military departments. Please see this policy .
• Because this position is in the Cyber Excepted Service, Veterans' Preference will be applied to preference eligible candidates, as defined by Section 2108 of the Title 5 U.S.C. in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 3005, "CES Employment and Placement." If you are a veteran claiming veteran's preference, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., you must submit documents verifying your eligibility with your application package.
• For more information on the Cyber Excepted Service Personnel System, click .
• For more information on veterans' preference, click .
• For more information regarding qualifications requirements, click .
• All applicants are encouraged to apply electronically. If you are unable to apply on-line, you may contact 317-212-0454 for assistance.
• If selected, the authorized rate of pay may exceed the stated maximum salary rate range under certain circumstances.