Clarification from the agency

All United States Citizens. This is a Direct-Hire Public Notice. This vacancy is limited to 100 applicants and may close before the closing date if that limit is reached.

• Support System administration and subject-matter expert on high impact or highly complex projects, provide technical support, advice, and guidance to other staff or contractors and other operational areas on highly technical and complex systems engineering project. Tasks to include, but are not limited to Systems administration, managing SAN, websites, content management, active directory, users access, databases, commercial products on Windows and Unix, on-premises and in the Cloud, etc. Manage projects utilizing an agile delivery approach such Kanban or Scrum.
• Prepares reference materials for users on new systems and IT products by writing operating instructions. Assists with the training of staff on IT-related equipment. Maintains customer confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential. Assists in the setup, management and maintenance of all IT-related equipment (IPhones, laptops, desktops, etc.) in compliance with security protocols. Maintains hardware and software maintenance agreements to ensure integrity of operations processes. Supports end users with IT and IT security related problems in a responsive and service oriented manner.
• Assess and research new systems to improve the software/hardware quality and security, measure the risk, review its impact on the existing infrastructure design and recommend the best approach to implement the new systems (Cloud, Storage, Security/Encryption, Data Hub, COTS, Open Source, converged or emerging technologies, etc.)
• Resolves data retrieval issues and documents system changes and revisions. Assists in introducing processes to maintain a stable secure network environment. Develops and monitors performance levels of software and hardware and evaluates, recommends and proposes alternative methods of information processing. Assist with trouble shooting, installing, testing and implementing new systems and IT and Cyber products.
• Collaborate and coordinate in committees or working groups with department heads and other IT Division in the identification of information systems: collect data, classify data, process, analyze, distribute and make it available to customers. Manage and resolve issues related to data governance, data ingest, data preparation, data loading, data access, performance tuning, space usage and change request.
• Assists the Chief Data Officer developing and validating existing stakeholders’ conceptual data models, including socializing and implementing logical and physical data warehouse/datamart data models; identifies data sources and metadata to deliver analytic requirements.
• Assists and supports Data Lake; Data Provisioning Services; Data Virtualization; Data Visualization Tools; BI/Reporting Tools and Self-Service systems.
• Build highly interactive dashboard using Tableau and PowerBi for data visualization in an understandable form using maps, charts, tables, graphs and other interactive content.
• Demonstrates extensive abilities to interact with investigators (Cyber), Cyber and IT auditors, leaders, and other end-users to understand and document risk scenarios and functional requirements, data sources, metadata, and conceptual data models for complex projects. Support our Electronic Crimes Unit (ECU) as they proactively detect and investigate cyber crimes at banks and in the banking sector.
• Manage the life cycle of the IT products and security and cyber technologies, to include maintenance, upgrades, enhancements and optimization and assess risk as part of the life-cycle analysis. Maintain and protect the integrity and confidentiality of Systems Information in Databases and Network Files.
• Monitors agency network activities and cyber incident response activities. Analyzes evidence of suspicious behavior to identify and report events that occur or may occur within the network to protect the information, systems, and networks from threats. Advises top-level management on immediate and long-term measures that must be taken in accordance with the level of risk involved, including exploring new concepts and technologies.
• Performs real-time cyber defense incident handling (e.g., forensic collections, intrusion correlation and tracking, threat analysis, and direct system remediation) tasks to support the agency’s Cyber Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT).
• Evaluates and recommends the acquisition of IT security tools. Installs and configures new hardware, software, and peripheral equipment to support IT security tools in accordance with agency standards.
• Reviews data collected from various cyber defense tools (e.g., Intrusion Detection System (IDS) alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events within the operating environment and identify and mitigate threats and deter future security attacks. Responds to security alerts indicating possible cyber events.

Conditions of employment

Registration with the Selective Service.

U.S. Citizenship is required.  

Employment Conditions.

Completion of Financial Disclosure may be required.

High Risk Position – Background Investigation (BI) required

Qualifications

How you will be evaluated

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

This is a Direct-Hire Public Notice.  Applications will be accepted for the location identified in the public notice.  Veteran's preference and traditional rating and ranking of applicants DO NOT apply to positions filled under this public notice.

All complete applications (transcripts must be included) will be verified for eligibility requirements and will be submitted to the hiring official upon request.

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Upon the submission of your application package to USAJobs.gov, you will receive an automatic reply from OPM informing you that your application has been submitted, received and is being processed. If you provided an email address, you will receive an email message acknowledging the receipt of your application.  You will not receive any additional notifications, and your resume may not be reviewed for qualifications unless a position is requested to be filled by the hiring official. After you submit your application, you will be contacted only if further evaluation or interviews are required or upon your selection.

If requested by Management, your application will be reviewed to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements outlined in this announcement. Therefore, it is imperative that your resume contain sufficiently detailed information upon which to make the qualification determination. Please ensure that your resume contains specific information such as position titles, beginning and ending dates of employment for each position, average number of hours worked per week, and if the position is/was in the Federal government, you should provide the position series and grade level.

You do not need to respond separately to these KSAs. Your resume will serve as responses to the KSAs.

• Skill in presenting issues, results and recommendations.
• Skill to exchange information and ideas in ways that promote mutual understanding of organizational issues and initiatives and to ensure that effective decision making occurs in operations.
• Knowledge and skill in applying database management systems, operating systems, technical architecture, enterprise IT infrastructure and network system linkages to implement and interpret guidelines used by others as well as to anticipate future OIG IT requirements.
• Knowledge of professional computing system, IT industry trends, interrelationships between IT specialties as well as advanced IT data management principles, concepts, methods, standards and practices to make decisions and recommendations.
• Knowledge of the design and build of data integration strategies, transforms and techniques for both internal and external data sources to support data solutions.
• Knowledge at a level to assist in the application of a wide range of qualitative and/or quantitative methods for the OIG data analytics program.
• Knowledge of professional auditing standards and techniques, evaluation and investigative standards and techniques, accounting systems, financial systems, cyber-security requirements, administrative systems and management principles to develop technical designs, identify system requirements and validate data sources.
• Knowledge of common Cyber defense security systems, tools and methods used in a Security Operations Center to effectively detect, triage and respond to security events and incidents.