Supervisory IT Specialist (Sysanalysis/Network)

Air Force Elements, U.S. Special Operations Command • MacDill AFB, FL

12d

About The Position

This is a first-level supervisory position in the USSOCOM Enterprise Defensive Cyberspace Operations Branch. The incumbent plans, directs, organizes, and controls the work of nonsupervisory employees while ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and meeting customer needs.

The position provides planning, management, and technical direction for 24x7 defensive cybersecurity operational readiness, the Cybersecurity Service Provider, and the Cybersecurity Incident Response Team. These services support Special Operations Forces personnel operating around the world across four networks and more than 1,100 deployed satellite ground and shipboard units. The incumbent serves as the branch’s senior technical expert on defensive cyberspace operations for the USSOCOM Special Operations Force Information Environment and ensures that classified national information protection disciplines are covered from policy and programmatic perspectives to meet mission requirements.

The role is designated mission-essential and key. It may require work outside normal duty hours, shift work, overtime or irregular hours, travel to military installations and operational locations in and outside the continental United States, and maintaining classified and unclassified network connectivity while away from headquarters. Advanced education and cybersecurity certification are conditions of employment; the cybersecurity certification must generally be obtained within six months, with a possible one-time six-month waiver.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI).
• Must meet the IT-related experience competencies of Attention to Detail, Customer Service, Oral Communication, and Problem Solving.
• At least one year of specialized experience at the GS-13 level or equivalent, applying advanced IT systems analysis and applications software concepts, functions, techniques, and capabilities to evaluate emerging cybersecurity methods and principles; assess proposed systems and applications software projects; maintain cyber defense systems and applications software; and ensure integration with existing and anticipated database-environment infrastructure.
• Merit promotion applicants must meet the GS time-in-grade requirement: one year at the GS-13 level for the GS-14 level, where applicable.
• Expert knowledge of DoD Cyber Security Service Provider objectives, security architectures, incident response, security tool interdependencies, and current and emerging IT, information operations, telecommunications, and intelligence systems, and the ability to relate this knowledge to SOF user requirements.
• Expert knowledge of DoD and USSOCOM operational support, strategic planning, programming and budgeting, and acquisition-management policies, processes, and procedures as they apply to cybersecurity service provider, IT security, and interdependent telecommunications systems.
• Expert knowledge of enterprise-scale security IT, enterprise cloud integration, and the USSOCOM Special Operations Force Information Environment sufficient to develop requirements, procedures, policies, standards, and practices for SOF use.
• Ability to lead a small-to-medium organization or working group in identifying problems, developing alternatives, selecting a course of action, and implementing solutions.
• Ability to adjust work objectives to changing programs and negotiate effectively with management to implement recommendations.
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing to identify, direct, or coordinate actions, establish priorities, and develop executable plans.
• Ability to gather facts, use analytical and evaluative methods, plan actions, make sound decisions, solve IT problems, analyze component interrelationships, and evaluate network systems and computer applications from an operational perspective.
• Must pass initial and periodic short-notice drug testing.
• Must obtain the required cybersecurity certification within six months; one six-month waiver may be granted. Failure to obtain it may result in removal.
• May be required to serve a one-year probationary period or a two-year trial period, depending on appointment type.
• This is a mission-essential and key position; the position may not be vacated during a national emergency or mobilization.
• Must be removed from the Ready Reserve and cannot become a member of the Ready Reserve.
• May be required to perform temporary duty travel of varying duration, including travel on military and commercial aircraft.
• May occasionally be required to work outside normal duty hours; shift work, overtime, and irregular hours may be required.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, and direct the activities of the USSOCOM Enterprise Defensive Cyberspace Operations Branch, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and meeting customer needs.
• Exercise supervisory personnel management responsibilities.
• Plan, manage, and provide technical direction for 24x7 defensive cybersecurity operational readiness, the Cybersecurity Service Provider, and the Cybersecurity Incident Response Team.
• Support Special Operations Forces personnel executing operations around the world across four networks and more than 1,100 deployed satellite ground and shipboard units.
• Serve as the branch’s senior technical expert on defensive cyberspace operations for the USSOCOM Special Operations Force Information Environment.
• Ensure classified national information protection security disciplines are covered from policy and programmatic perspectives to meet mission requirements.
• Travel to other military installations and to operational locations in and outside the continental United States as required.
• Maintain unclassified and classified network connectivity when away from headquarters, potentially using a mobile device.

Benefits

• Federal employees and their families have access to a comprehensive federal benefits package; specific benefit eligibility depends on the position type.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed