INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST (SECURITY/SYSTEM ANALYSIS)

Job Overview

Summary

Your experience must reflect skill in the following areas: attention to detail, customer service, oral communication, and problem solving. Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail. IT-related experience demonstrating this competency include: Collaborating both internally and externally to investigate, analyze and develop recommended courses of action to ensure both current and future cyber operational readiness Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services. IT-related experience demonstrating this competency include: formulating courses of action for correcting configuration management problems that may exist with internal and external providers and stakeholders. Oral Communication - Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately. IT-related experience demonstrating this competency include: recommending improvements to identify areas of potential risk or resistance to change and develops specific plans to mitigate them. Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations. IT-related experience demonstrating this competency include: developing approaches to correct existing or anticipated release discrepancies or problems. Additionally, your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: evaluating cybersecurity programs by identifying hardware and software security vulnerabilities to develop and implement plans ensuring required software or hardware security patches are applied to maintain operational readiness of systems or platforms. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/2200/information-technology-it-management-series-2210-alternative-a/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Duties

You will manage and track cyber readiness for Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CNSP) platforms to ensure compliance with higher level directives and requirements.You will perform Navy Qualified Validator role for afloat Authority to Operate requirements.You will track subordinate command operational execution to include completion of all the requisite training to execute, comply with, and sustain cyber hygiene standards and operational readiness.You will communicate technical findings that serve as a barrier to compliance and develop courses of action and corrective plans.You will investigate, analyze, and develop recommended courses of action that ensure current and future cyber readiness.You will perform analysis of equipment and software and prepare reliability reports to identify and define problem areas and establish minimum performance levels.You will serve as a Primary Assistant (PA) for CNSP claimants, to provide reviews, analysis, evaluations, reports, briefs, advice and recommendations for cyber baseline/warfare mission areas on emerging Fleet requirements.You will plan, implement, administer, and manage the shipboard Information Assurance (IA) program to meet current and future organizational requirements.You will Monitor Cyber Directives and Information Assurance Vulnerabilities Assessments (IAVA) for afloat applicability and ensure required software updates are applied and/or promulgated as necessary for appropriate systems or platforms.You will provide monitoring and reporting of hardware, communication and software security vulnerabilities or incidents, as required.You will develop, coordinate, and maintain Risk Management Framework (RMF) packages for afloat systems.