SUPERVISORY IT SPECIALIST (INFOSEC/NETWORK)

Summary THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION. This National Guard position is for a SUPERVISORY IT SPECIALIST (INFOSEC/NETWORK), Position Description Number NGD2330000 and is part of the MD 175th ANG, National Guard. Responsibilities 1. Exercises supervisory personnel management responsibilities. Advises and provides counsel to employees regarding policies, procedures, and directives of management. Selects or recommends selection of candidates for vacancies, promotions, details, and reassignments in consideration of skills and qualifications, mission requirements, and EEO and diversity objectives. Develops, modifies, and/or interprets performance standards. Explains performance expectations to employees and provides regular feedback on strengths and weaknesses. Holds employees responsible for satisfactory completion of work assignments. Appraises subordinate workers performance ensuring consistency and equity in rating techniques. Recommends awards when appropriate and approves within-grade increases. Hears and resolves employee complaints and refers serious unresolved complaints to higher level management. Initiates action to correct performance or conduct problems. Effects minor disciplinary measures such as warnings and reprimands and recommends action in more serious disciplinary matters. Prepares documentation to support actions taken. Identifies employee developmental needs and provides or arranges for training (formal and on-the-job) to maintain and improve job performance. Encourages self-development. Approves master leave schedule assuring adequate coverage for peak workloads and traditional holiday vacation time. Discharges security responsibilities by ensuring education and compliance with security directives for employees with access to classified or sensitive material. Recognizes and takes action to correct situations posing a threat to the health or safety of subordinates. Applies EEO principles and requirements to all personnel management actions and decisions, and ensures all personnel are treated in a manner free of discrimination. Periodically reviews position descriptions to ensure accuracy, and the most effective utilization of personnel resources. Explains classification determinations to subordinate employees. (30%)2. Plans, organizes, and oversees the activities of a CPT, ICS, ACD, C3MS, or NMT operations section. Develops goals and objectives that integrate organization and CYO objectives. Plans work for accomplishment by subordinate teams. Sets and adjusts short-term priorities, and prepares schedules based on consideration of difficulty of requirements and assignments to ensure the experience, training, and abilities of the staff are effectively utilized to meet organization and customer needs. Provides direction and advice regarding policies, procedures, and guidelines. Reviews work and management techniques of subordinates. Makes decisions on work problems presented by subordinate operators. Coordinates with representatives of other Section Supervisors and the Operations Officer and Commander in the oversight of operational events, exercises, assessments and projects. Oversees management of CYO Weapon System tools. (30%)3. Prepares Unit Training Assembly, Annual Training and currency training events for Mission Ready Cyberspace Operators and is prepared for events in order to optimize training time available. Monitors assigned military members' go-no-go readiness status and ensures deficiencies are recognized. Works with scheduling section to provide opportunities for assigned members, to maintain full mission readiness. Ensures training for each event has been prepared and is ready. Coordinates with maintenance section to ensure all assigned equipment is in good working condition and ready for each training and mission event. (30%)4. Performs cyberspace operations that protect the nation (or assess the capability to protect and defend) information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. Provides for mission assurance of information systems by incorporating protection, detection, and reaction capabilities. Conducts risk and vulnerability assessments of DoD information systems to identify associated vulnerabilities, risks and protection needs. Provides technical and subject-matter expertise to improve the defenses of assessed missions and systems. Defends missions and systems against adversary exploitation. Operates in-garrison and deployed cyberspace weapon systems. At a minimum, maintains currency as a qualified Cyberspace Operator. (10%)Performs other duties as assigned. Requirements Conditions of Employment NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED. If you are not sure you are eligible for military membership, please contact a National Guard recruiter prior to applying for this position. This is an excepted service position that requires membership in a compatible military assignment in the employing state's National Guard, required prior to the effective date of placement. Selectee will be required to wear the military uniform. Acceptance of an excepted service position constitutes concurrence with these requirements as a condition of employment. Applicants who are not currently a member of the National Guard must be eligible for immediate membership and employment in the National Guard in the military grade listed in this announcement. Males born after 31 December 1959 must be registered for Selective Service. Federal employment suitability as determined by a background investigation. May be required to successfully complete a probationary period. Participation in direct deposit is mandatory. Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/Special Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) eligible security clearance with counter-intelligence polygraph. Must be certified IAW DOD 8570.01-M, Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002, Clinger Cohen Act of 1996 and current AF directives. Qualifications Military Grades: O-1 TO O-4 SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Optimal applicants have a CYBERCOM work role qualification or NSA equivalent. Must be a validated graduate of the Air Force Cyberspace Weapons Instructor Course. Must have at least 36 months of specialized experiences as a technical expert in cyberspace weapons and tactics techniques and procedures (TTPs) that ensured the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of cyber Series mission systems, networks and data through the enhancement of Department of Defense(DoD) information systems security programs, policies, procedures and tools. Experiences included comprehensive evaluations of DOD cyber terrain with focus on network security. Competent in conducting assessments of security postures and processes that identifiedareas of vulnerability or inadequate security for mitigation and improvement. Experiences may have included the discovery of advanced persistent threats in DOD cyber systems, replicated adversary cyber threat tactics and protection of priority DOD missions for a specified duration. Experienced as a Weapons and Tactics Officer for Cyber Protection Teams or Industrial Control Systems Team missions on DoD information systems. Skilled competency with a demonstrated mastery knowledge level of Information Technology (IT) security methodology used to protect assigned cyber key terrain by selecting appropriate TTPs that were used by various teams. Experienced and skilled in establishing required TTPs used to secure computer systems and to protect them from cyber exploitation. Experienced in collaborating with the Cyber Tactics community that developed and facilitated tactical improvements and advanced the operational capability of weapon system, the unit, and the broader COS community. Competent in conducting extensive research of tools used to attack or gain unauthorized access to information networks. Experiences included analyzing and testing specific tools on training ranges to determine these tools' levels of effectiveness, stability, and scope. Experienced in delivering assessed changes to higher-level policies, standards, directives or operations manuals that provided impacts on unit plans, policies, programs or operations. Must have experiences in the Cyberspace Weapon System's regulations, procedures, policies, and guidelines. Skilled in presenting formal and informal briefing and written reports in regard to the Cyberspace program's greater cyber tactics community to provide training to the unit on emerging weapon system capabilities and TTPs. Skilled competencies in evaluating and assessing mission networked systems' vulnerabilities that included application server hardware and operating system software; along with mastery of information systems security protocols and peripheral network equipment such as, routers, bridges, switches, attached cabling system, network interface cards, modems, multi-plexers, and concentrators. Skilled in conducting evaluations that ensured compliance with applicable standards. Competent in managing system backups that provided effective and expedient database restoration for the respective network equipment to include customer network boundary protection devices. Experienced in identifying advanced persistent threats in DOD Cyber systems and protecting DOD priority missions for specified durations. Skilled in discovering, detecting, and characterizing advanced adversarial tradecraft. Experiences included work in monitoring target systems and networks for unusual activities that resulted in the identification and removal of adversary activities that evaded routine security measures on assigned cyber terrain. Competent in replicating tactics, techniques, and procedures of specific cyber threats used to evaluate cyber defenses and DOD defensive cyber operations. Quality of Experience - Length of time is not of itself qualifying. Candidates' experience should be evaluated on the basis of duties performed rather than strictly on the rank of the individual; however, established compatibility criteria/assignments must be followed. The applicant's record of experience and/or training must show possession of the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to fully perform the duties of the position. Education If you are using Education to qualify for this position, 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree Degree must be in computer science, engineering, information science, information systems management, mathematics, operations research, statistics, or technology management You must provide transcripts or other documentation to support your Educational claims. To receive credit for Education, you must provide documentation of proof that you meet the Education requirements for this position. Additional Information If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency (Register | Selective Service System : Selective Service System (sss.gov)).