Clarification from the agency

This position is open to current employees of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.

The incumbent of this position will serve as the NSSA Branch Chief and will oversee comprehensive assessments of national program office (NPO) information technology systems. This includes ensuring that the assessments are properly scoped, results documented in the Judiciary's enterprise class assessment and management tool (currently CSAM), effectively performed, and that the assessments occur consistent with the assessment methodology of the NSSA Branch Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). The assessment methodology mirrors NIST SP 800-53A Appendix F, NIST SP 800-53, and NIST SP 800-115. The incumbent will also provide technical, operational and management expertise combined with knowledge of the Judiciary so that the comprehensive assessments are thorough and so that risk is evaluated based upon Judiciary specific factors.

Duties of the position include, but are not limited to:

1. Performing the full range of technical and administrative supervisory duties and responsibilities with respect to assigned personnel and plans work to be accomplished by subordinates.
2. Providing leadership and technical supervision to subordinate personnel responsible for planning, operations and maintenance within the National Systems Security Assessment (NSSA) Branch; ensuring adherence to all IT operations and management policies.
3. Developing and maintaining the schedule, production and distribution of the annual National System IT Security Scorecard, and ensures that it continues to evolve the by completing data analysis of trends and managing the governance process.
4. Planning, scheduling, managing and providing oversight of IT security assessments of National Program Office (NPO) IT systems to identify vulnerabilities, provide recommendations for their remediation, and to assist system owners in implementing effective safeguards. Vulnerabilities must be analyzed, and risk rated. Risk statements must be clearly stated and capture the specific business impact to the judiciary if a deficiency is exploited.
5. Managing the Cyber Security Assessment and Management (CSAM) tool, to include user access, the maintenance of the NPO system inventory and overall maintenance of the system and vulnerability management.
6. Ensuring security assessment results are populated into CSAM directly, on schedule, and mirroring the NSSA Branch SOP assessment methodologies.
7. Developing Risk Management Reports for enterprise systems.
8. Utilizing standard reporting templates and methodologies, automated security tools, and cross-functional teams in support of NSSA service offerings. Incorporating "lessons learned" into the established processes to achieve continuous improvements and efficiencies for NSSA services and work products.
9. Serving as the subject matter expert for the development, management, and execution of NSSA services and work products. This includes outreach to service consumers, project planning, service delivery, and reporting. Testing includes application, database, and host (OS) level security testing performed across a diverse suite of platforms and supporting infrastructures as well as comprehensive assessments of management, technical, and operational security controls associated with NPO deployed IT systems.
10. Overseeing validation testing of corrective actions taken by the consumers of testing services. Work products include security assessment plans, reports, written and oral presentations, and webinars, which are tailored for and consumable by multiple levels of technical and non-technical management.
11. Performing research to identify potential vulnerabilities and threats to existing web, applications, database, and operating system technologies, and provide timely, clear, technically accurate notification to management of the risk potential; and options for remediation.
12. Providing assessment services for new or emerging technologies being considered for judiciary use.

Conditions of employment

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

1. AO employees are required to attest to their vaccination status. New employees are required to complete a Certification of Vaccination Form. The information provided on the form will be treated as confidential information and will be managed by the AO Human Resources Office.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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/.
6. All new AO employees are required to identify a financial institution for direct deposit of pay before appointment.
7. 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.
8. 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 performing 'hands-on" technical systems administration across a diverse platform of technologies (e.g., servers, layer 2 devices, applications, virtual technologies, mobile).

Applicants With any of the Following Certification(s) are Highly Desirable:

• ISC2
• Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC)
• ISACA
• CompTIA
• Cloud Security Alliance

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.