This position serves as the Executive Director, Security Operations, in Washington, DC within VA's Office of Information Technology (OIT), Office of the VA Chief Information Officer (CIO). This position reports to the Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) for Office Information Security. The responsibilities include, but not limited to the following:

• Serves as the expert authority for coordinating agency and government-wide compliance with current agency, federal and presidential directives regarding information security operations and continuity of government activities.
• Leads the planning, development and coordination of agency and governmental level information security programs, strategies, and operations, using IT security theories and concepts, project management methods, concepts, and practices, to ensure protection of the Department's IT infrastructure and information.
• Leads the response to emerging issues and the development of continuing requirements for the SOC.
• Leads the coordination of efforts for security operations with other federal agencies.
• Leads the organization's security operations professionals, who provide incident response and active security monitoring of the Department's critical information resources and business continuity operations.
• Leads the planning, developing and execution of budget activities and obtaining necessary resources to enable the information security operations program to effectively complete its assigned objectives.
• Represents VA leadership to external entities such as interagency groups, public forums, congressional requests and briefings, in order to obtain understanding and support for the information security operations program.
• Leads the development of the VA's information security operations policies and represents the VA's interest and policies to external federal, state and local governments and agencies, as well as, corporate entities.
• Monitors work status through formal and informal means to evaluate progress toward objectives using surveys, statistical analysis, internal metrics and reports. Conducts personal evaluations, as well as, informal means for evaluating program and operational effectiveness.

Conditions of employment

• US citizenship is required.
• One year probationary period required for initial SES appointment.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Successful completion of background investigation and drug screening.
• Public Financial Disclosure Report (SF-278) is required.
• May be subject to reassignment geographically or organizationally.
• Top Secret (SCI) Clearance with TK and Gamma Caveats

To meet the minimum qualifications, applicant must possess the following technical and executive core qualifications. These qualifications would typically be gained through progressively responsible management or executive level assignments such as director of a regional office, medical facility or program manager. An individual's total experience, education and volunteer work experience must demonstrate the ability to perform the duties of the position.

Qualifications

To meet the minimum qualifications, applicants must possess all of the necessary requirements for this position, you MUST SHOW in your resume and written narrative responses that you possess the Technical Qualifications and the five Mandatory Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) as outlined in the announcement. Eligibility will be based on clear and concise accomplishments that emphasize your level of responsibilities, scope and complexity of programs managed, program accomplishments (with results), policy initiatives and level of contacts. Your resume must not exceed FIVE pages, and your Technical qualifications must not exceed two pages per each response and ten pages for your Executive Core Qualification. Any information in excess WILL NOT be considered or evaluated. Applicants can obtain a sample resume along with additional information regarding the Executive Core Qualifications on the Internet at http://www.opm.gov/ses/recruitment/qualify.asp.

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.

MANDATORY EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs): All applicants must submit a written narrative response to the following ECQs. Your narrative must address each ECQ separately. Additional information on ECQs is available at: http://www.opm.gov/ses/recruitment/qualify.asp. Applicants are encouraged to follow the Challenge, Context, Action and Results model outlined in the guide. It is recommended that you draft your ECQs in a Word document and then upload into the system.

1. Leading Change: The ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment.

2. Leading People: The ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts.

3. Results Driven: The ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks.

4. Business Acumen: The ability to manage human, financial and information resources strategically.

5. Building Coalitions: The ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, state and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION (TQ)s: In addition, all applicants must submit a written narrative response to the following TQ(s). Please give examples and explain how often you used your skills, the complexity of the knowledge possessed, the level of people you interacted with, the sensitivity of the issues you handled managing a large public or private sector organization that administers complex, rules-based benefits or services, etc. It is recommended that you draft your TQ(s) in a word document and then upload into the system.

TQ1: Ability to plan, design, develop, deploy, and manage security, and incident response including, but not limited to, audit management and overseeing the development of consistent policies and procedures to mitigate findings.

TQ2: Demonstrated experience in managing security operations center processes that include the integration of cloud security.

TQ3: Demonstrated experience in overseeing cyber intelligence and threat analytics through the implementation of cyber security strategies and reporting tools to gather, identify, and mitigate Advanced Persistent Threats.

How you will be evaluated

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

Step 1: ECQ qualifications

Step 2: Technical Qualification(s)

Step 3: VA Executive Resources Board

Step 4: Nominating Organization may conduct interviews

Step 5: Approval by the Selecting Official (may include additional screening)

Step 6: OPM Qualifications Review Board certification