The incumbent is a recognized cyber security expert with a proven record of successfully managing tier 3 level support to defensive cyber operations in a 24/7 environment. Must have a proven record of successfully leading digital forensics threat hunting at a national level, and extensive experience managing, developing, and mentoring federal and contract personnel conducting defensive cyber operations.

Duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Serving as the branch chief for Threat Hunt and partnering with ITSO and Security Operations leadership to build and maintain the threat hunt roadmap and branch budget.
2. Providing thought leadership in threat actor techniques, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) for the threat hunt team.
3. Planning, scoping, and monitoring threat hunt operations based on data sets and knowledge of the judiciary's environment (cloud and on-prem).
4. Briefing the status, results, and implications of threat hunt operations to ITSO leadership and other stakeholders on a regular cadence.
5. Recruiting, mentoring, supervising, and developing threat hunt engineers.
6. Developing and maintaining annual performance objectives for threat hunt engineers.
7. Developing contract quality and management standards as a contracting officer's representative (COR) for contracts within the branch.
8. Serving as the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) for relevant software and service contracts.
9. Monitoring and driving proactive threat detection development derived from threat research and hunt operations.
10. Liaising with threat intel and vulnerability management teams to develop threat hunt hypotheses.
11. Developing standard operating procedures and reporting templates for threat hunt operations.
12. Producing and reviewing weekly, monthly, and ad-hoc reporting.
13. Developing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the threat hunt branch.
14. Maintaining awareness and knowledge of ongoing operational security incidents, utilizing the information to build more comprehensive threat models and threat hunt hypotheses.
15. Fostering collaboration and promoting technical excellence.
16. Developing work force development plans.
17. Coordinating an on-call rotation, if required.
18. Developing and maintaining a prioritized backlog of threat hunt hypothesis to be used for structured threat hunts.

Conditions of employment

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

1. All information is subject to verification. Applicants are advised that false answers or omissions of information on application materials or inability to meet the following conditions may be grounds for non-selection, withdrawal of an offer of employment, or dismissal after being employed.
2. Selection for this position is contingent upon completion of OF-306, Declaration of Federal Employment during the pre-employment process and proof of U.S. citizenship for competitive status positions or conversion to a competitive status position with the AO. If non-citizens are considered for hire into a temporary or any other position with non-competitive status or when it is confirmed by the AO Human Resources Office there are no qualified U.S. citizens for a competitive status position (unless prohibited by a law or statue), non-citizens must provide proof of authorization to work in the U.S. and proof of entitlement to receive compensation. Additional information on the employment of non-citizens can be found at USAJOBS Help Center | Employment of non-citizens/. For a list of documents that may be used to provide proof of citizenship or authorization to work in the United States, please refer to Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification.
3. All new AO employees will be required to complete an FBI fingerprint-based national criminal database and records check and pass a public trust suitability check.
4. New employees to the AO will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights/responsibilities, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/.
5. All new AO employees are required to identify a financial institution for direct deposit of pay before appointment.
6. You will be required to serve a trial period if selected for a first-time appointment to the Federal government, transferring from another Federal agency, or serving as a first-time supervisor. Failure to successfully complete the trial period may result in termination of employment.
7. If appointed to a temporary position, management may have the discretion of converting the position to permanent depending upon funding and staffing allocation.

Qualifications

Applicants must have demonstrated experience as listed below. This requirement is according to the AO Classification, Compensation, and Recruitment Systems which include interpretive guidance and reference to the OPM Operating Manual for Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions.

Specialized Experience: Applicants must have at least one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience which is in or directly related to the line of work of this position. Specialized experience is demonstrated experience as a lead or manager performing threat hunt operations.

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 resume and supporting documentation and compare this information to your responses on the occupational questionnaire to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications for this job. If you meet the minimum qualifications for this job, we will evaluate your application package, to assess the quality, depth, and complexity of your accomplishments, experience, and education as they relate to the requirements listed in this vacancy announcement.

You should be aware that your ratings are subject to evaluation and verification. If a determination is made that you have rated yourself higher than is supported by your resume and/or narrative responses, you will be assigned a rating commensurate to your described experience. Failure to submit the mandatory narrative responses will result in not receiving full consideration and/or rating credit. Deliberate attempts to falsify information may be grounds for not selecting you, withdrawing an offer of employment, or dismissal after being employed.