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IT Cybersecurity Specialist (INFOSEC/DATAMGMT), GS-2210-15

Employer
USAJobs
Location
Washington, D.C
Closing date
Nov 19, 2019

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Duties

Summary

This position is located in the Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard, Assistant Commandant for C4IT (CG-6), Office of Enterprise Architecture & Technology Innovation (CG-67), Washington, DC.

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Responsibilities

The incumbent of this position serves as the agency expert for the planning, development, implementation, and administration of systems for the acquisition, storage, and retrieval of data. The incumbent serves as the authoritative expert and advisor to senior management on expanding the Coast Guard's use of data as a strategic enabler of agency goals and objectives through assessing the implementation of emerging and disruptive technology into the Coast Guard's production environment.

Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team.

Typical work assignments include:

• Defining and applying principles and theories of common enterprise architecture (business, application, data, technical, and security) approach to include purpose (duty to protect), mission need (risk assessment), and controls (design controls to protect) throughout the planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE) cycle.
• Defining, planning, and applying architectural elements (including data management) in the analysis, planning, design, implementation, documentation, assessment, and management of the enterprise security architecture that is aligned with IT strategy and agency mission, goals, structure, and processes.
• Identifying emerging and updated standards that must be implemented in the CG IT environment and teams with other operational requirements lead to translate standards into technical security design requirements through sound design methodology, adequate security control application, and effective configuration practices.
• Ensuring secure architectural solutions are incorporated into every aspect of the enterprise architecture supporting an organization's key business processes and organizational operational and support missions.
• Providing the interface between the Enterprise Architect and the Information System Security Engineering as detailed in NIST SP 800-37.
• Architecting counter-measures to contain, control and recover from dynamic cybersecurity events.
• Maintaining integrity of information/data and availability of systems, while maintaining continuity of business operations.
• Building architectures that align to missions essential requirements enabling the nexus between physical data and business.
• Using knowledge about current threats to identify flaws and weaknesses in the composition of system designs and defenses for the mission and mission critical data. Specifies solutions and verifies solutions that have been implemented.
• Rapidly adjusting designs based on new defense, threat, and attack information

Travel Required

50% or less - May be required to be in a travel status for 6-10 nights per month.

Supervisory status
No

Promotion Potential
15

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

  • U.S. Citizenship is required.
  • This position requires a Top Secret/SCI.
  • Must complete a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI).
  • You will be required to undergo random drug testing.
  • A final offer of employment is contingent upon a negative drug test result.

All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.

Qualifications

To qualify at the GS-15 level, applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-14 level in the federal service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.

Specialized experience includes the following:
  • Demonstrated expertise evangelizing and convincing senior management and staff on implementing new processes and technology to improve mission effectiveness and efficiency.
  • Demonstrated expertise recommending and implementing emerging and disruptive technology at the right time in the right place.
  • Demonstrated expertise evaluating new technology trends and Service information needs, directing development of IT investment plans, advising senior Agency or Service management on how to meet future business information needs.
  • Demonstrated expertise in the management and integration of existing and emerging Department of Defense (DOD) or equivalent Joint Information Environment, IT Reform and DOD Modernization Initiatives. These include but are not limited to state-of-the art secure network gateways (Joint Regional Security Stack (JRSS)), Office 365 email, e-messaging, video conferencing, file sharing, print sharing, collaborative technology, business intelligence and big data analysis, artificial intelligence, machine learning, block chain, graphics processing units, quantum computing knowledge¸ and cloud computing.
  • Demonstrated expertise with overseeing tradeoffs of maintaining, upgrading, or replacing systems including the implementation new, emerging, and disruptive technologies into the mission.
  • Demonstrated expertise in the planning and execution of data analytic methods including developing and implement data management to include authoritative data sources, data tagging traditional and big data analysis and providing information anywhere anytime securely in a full, degraded and disconnected environment
  • Demonstrated expertise with agile development and SecDevOps
  • Demonstrated expertise in understanding and implement ITIL and/or DESMF.
  • Demonstrated expertise in understanding and implementing continuous diagnostics and mitigation capabilities.
  • Demonstrated expertise automating test scripts to support enterprise architecture review and compliance.
  • Demonstrated expertise defining the target to-be state, documenting the current as-is state and building and implementing the transition plans.
  • Demonstrated expertise in develop and implementing secure multifactor authentication mobility platforms and applications.
  • Demonstrated expertise integrating and implementing applications, services, networks, messaging systems, monitoring and management systems, security systems, identity and credentialing systems, and wireless communication technologies.
  • Demonstrating expertise in architectural concepts and frameworks.
  • Demonstrated expertise with the application of the laws, regulations, policies, and ethics as they relate to cybersecurity and privacy.
  • Demonstrated expertise ensuring that IT services are in full compliance with all applicable laws, policies, guidelines, and best practices, such as NIST, FISMA, and DISA STIGS.
  • Demonstrated expertise developing strategies and planning objectives for Agency-wide IT that focus on lifecycle support and modernization of IT platforms.
  • Demonstrated expertise communicating orally and in writing to management and policy officials both inside and outside an Agency or Service.
  • Demonstrated expertise developing plans and/or specifications necessary for the implementation of new components of the enterprise IT architecture.
  • Demonstrated expertise expressing complex technical issues in clearly written documents, which can be understood by non-technical managers.
  • Demonstrated expertise evaluating the adequacy, cost effectiveness, and appropriateness of specifications to satisfy IT requirements.
  • Demonstrated expertise developing and evaluating strategies for acquiring IT resources and services.
  • Demonstrated expertise analyzing, evaluating, and providing recommendations on major aspects of proposed procurement(s), which resulted in positive impacts to the business or enterprise architecture of an Agency or Service.
  • Demonstrated expertise in the acquisition, implementation, and integration of cloud services.
  • Demonstrated expertise with developing and evaluating cloud architectures, cloud security architectures, data architectures, and network architectures.
  • Demonstrated expertise to combine authoritative technical information and judgment to develop IT engineering guidance that provides insight on significant enterprise IT issues.
  • Demonstrated expertise with DoD or equivalent Risk Management Framework (RMF).
  • Demonstrated expertise to independently establish technical priorities, define operating guidelines, and oversee the management of the broad spectrum of technologies that expand and sustain mission execution.
  • Demonstrated expertise overseeing the development and updates to enterprise services lifecycle estimates.
  • Demonstrated expertise working on diverse integrated product teams and working groups such as military, civilian employees, and contractors.
  • Demonstrated expertise establishing governance of emerging and existing IT activities, including the review and approval of IT strategy artifacts, policies, implementation and sustainment plans, system design documents, and reference architectures.
  • Demonstrated expertise in managing enterprise-level initiatives requiring project and change management.
  • Demonstrated expertise with developing cost estimates, price determinations, and specifications for procurement, modification, operations and maintenance of IT infrastructure, applications, and cloud services.

  • In addition to the qualification requirements above, applicants must have IT-related experience demonstrating each of the four BASIC COMPETENCIES listed below:

    Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.

    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.

    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.

    Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.

    National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (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. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

    Education

    This position does not have a positive education requirement. If you are including education on your resume, report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. See Required Documents section for detail.

    FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application. See Recognition of Foreign Qualifications click here

    Additional information

    Applicants will be required to complete questions contained on the Declaration for Federal Employment (OF-306) at the time a tentative job offer is made. Certain responses on the form could pose a problem with suitability for employment determinations. If you receive a conditional offer of employment for this position, you will be required to complete/make updates to the OF-306 and to sign and certify the accuracy of all information in your application, prior to entry on duty. False statements on any part of the application may result in withdrawal of offer of employment, dismissal after beginning work, or imprisonment.

    DHS uses e-Verify, an Internet-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States. Learn more about e-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities at click here

    Recruitment incentives may be authorized.

    This is a TERM appointment not to exceed 3 years. However, an extension is possible up to 4 years.

    All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments made by direct deposit.

    The Department of Homeland Security encourages persons with disabilities to apply, to include persons with intellectual, severe physical or psychiatric disabilities, as defined by 5 CFR § 213.3102(u), and/or Disabled Veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30 percent or more as defined by 5 CFR § 315.707. Veterans , Peace Corps / VISTA volunteers , and persons with disabilities possess a wealth of unique talents, experiences, and competencies that can be invaluable to the DHS mission. If you are a member of one of these groups, you may not have to compete with the public for federal jobs. To determine your eligibility for non-competitive appointment and to understand the required documentation, click on the links above or contact the Servicing Human Resources Office listed at the bottom of this announcement.

    More than 1 selection may be made from this announcement if additional identical vacancies in the same title, series, grade, and unit occur within 45 days from the date the certificate was issued.

    If you need a reasonable accommodation for the application and hiring process, please contact 202-795-6351. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis. Visit Reasonable Accommodation

    How You Will Be Evaluated

    You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

    We will review your résumé and supporting documentation to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements. If you meet the minimum qualifications, your experience, education and training will be rated using the on-line self assessment questions that are based on the following competencies or knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to perform this job:
    • Knowledge of and skill in applying information systems security concepts and methods.
    • Knowledge of enterprise IT architecture.
    • Knowledge of and skill in applying information systems security principles, concepts, and methods.
    • Knowledge of infrastructure protection environments.
    • Skill in building and maintaining interrelationships of multiple IT disciplines.
    • Knowledge of and skill in applying the Federal IT security hierarchy.
    • Knowledge of systems security principles, methods, regulations, and policies.
    • Knowledge of IT security theories and concepts, practices, and emerging issues; project management methods and concepts.
    • Knowledge of and skill in applying database management concepts and techniques; data mining, storage, and warehousing methods; data management concepts and techniques.

    Your resume and responses to the self-assessment questions are an integral part of the process for determining your qualifications for the position. Therefore, you must support your responses to the self-assessment questions by providing examples of past and present experience in your resume.

    If you are best qualified, you may be referred to the hiring manager for consideration and may be called for an interview.

    To preview questions please click here .

    Background checks and security clearance

    Security clearance
    Sensitive Compartmented Information

    Drug test required
    Yes

    Required Documents

    1. Your resume
    2. Your responses to the online questionnaire
    3. Current or former federal employees, submit a copy of your most recent SF-50, Notice of Personnel Action, that demonstrates your eligibility for consideration, e.g., length of time you have been in your current/highest grade. Examples of appropriate SF-50s include promotions, with-in grade increases. Performance award are not acceptable.
    4. If you are qualifying based on education, submit a legible copy of your unofficial college transcript from an accredited college/university. The transcript must reflect the college/university name and/or logo. Applicants are highly encouraged to proactively order a copy of their official transcripts to be delivered to their home address so transcripts will be readily available if selected. If selected, official transcripts are required prior to establishing your start date. Foreign education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet education requirements if you can show that it is comparable to education received in U.S. accredited institutions. Provide proof with your application. Please see click here.
    5. If you are claiming special priority selection rights under the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP), you must submit a copy of your agency notice, most recent performance rating and most recent SF-50, noting your current position, grade level and duty location. If you have never worked for the federal government, you are not ICTAP eligible. To be considered eligible, you must be placed in the well-qualified category for this position. Please see ICTAP eligibility.
    6. If you are requesting consideration as a 30% Disabled Veteran, you must submit the Member 4 Copy DD-214(s), which includes Character of Service, and VA Disability Letter with percentage of disability OR documentation of disability determination from a branch of the Armed Forces which reflects a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more.
    7. If you are requesting consideration under Executive Order 13473 , you must submit proof of eligibility. At a minimum to confirm eligibility for purposes of appointment based on relocation under these provisions a spouse of a service member must provide a copy of the marriage certificate or other documentation verifying marriage and a copy of the military PCS orders assigning the service member to a certain post. The PCS orders must state the member's spouse was authorized on the military orders. Proof of eligibility based on disability and deaths resulting from active duty service is outlined here.
    8. OPM must authorize employment offers for former or current Political Appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C or Non-Career SES employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information. Submit proof of your former or current status, such as your SF-50. Please see here.

    Current or former political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employees must submit a copy of your applicable SF50, along with a statement that provides the following information regarding your most recent political appointment: Position title; Type of appointment (Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES, or Presidential Appointee); Agency; and beginning and ending dates of appointment."

    All documentation as outlined above must be received by the closing date of the announcement. If you are unable to submit your documents electronically, you may fax or mail the documents. A fax cover sheet will be provided to you from the system with fax number and instructions. Required documents will also be accepted by mail and must be received by the closing date of the announcement. The mailing address is COMMANDANT (CG-123HQ), ATTN OFFICE OF CIVILIAN HUMAN RESOURCES (JOBS), US COAST GUARD, 2703 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR AVE SE STOP **XXXXXX**, WASHINGTON, DC 20593-7912.

    If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

    Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education .

    Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.

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