The incumbent of this position is critically important in meeting AO goals of protecting the security of Judiciary assets and accelerating the efforts to improve the security posture of nation and court unit systems and initiatives throughout the AO. The incumbent will perform multiple and varying assignments under the Chief of the Security Architecture Management Branch and possess the skills needed to be a senior leader overseeing, participating in, budgeting for, directing, and inspecting/reviewing the work performed by a skilled contractor Cyber workforce to continuously improve the judiciary's security posture.

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

1. Leading the Blue Team to safeguard security, confidentiality, and integrity of US court information systems by detecting vulnerabilities and profiling/discovering threats.
2. Collaborating with heads of NPOs, Court units, and judiciary stakeholders to negotiate, decide, and/or coordinate work-related changes affecting the judiciary.
3. Finding and implementing ways to eliminate or reduce significant bottlenecks and barriers to production, promoting team building and improving business practices.
4. Determining the best approach (method and manner) for achieving the objectives; managing the quality and means of task delivery, determining the depth of individual resource commitment to assignments, and directing the technical approach to be taken by assigned government and matrix team members.
5. Serving as a senior computer security specialist and performing analyses and project management tasks relative to information system and network security support to the agency and its constituents.
6. Implementing, maintaining, and analyzing procedures and security requirements to determine overall technical features and security protection for systems and networks processing all sensitivity levels of information.
7. Developing and implementing proactive strategies to defend the judiciary from emerging and existing threats and address capability gaps in the security enterprise architecture.
8. Developing technical articles and hosting webinars supporting Judiciary security awareness.
9. Conducting liaison activities across functional teams.
10. Providing senior technical guidance to judicial stakeholders.
11. Providing timely, clear, technically accurate notification to impacted judiciary stakeholders of the risk potential associated with IT security events and options for remediation.
12. Interfacing with clients and management to understand their security needs and overseeing the development and implementation of procedures to accommodate them.
13. Performing the tasks and meet the skills, knowledge and abilities as described in NIST Special Publication 800-181 National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Cybersecurity Workforce, NIST Special Publication 800-30 Risk Management Guide for IT Systems, NIST Special Publication 800-53 Recommended Security Controls for Federal Systems and Organizations, and NIST Special Publication 800-137 Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) for Federal Information Systems and Organizations.

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 planning work to be accomplished, setting priorities and scheduling work to be completed within blue team engagements.

Desired, but not required: Applicants who have one or more of the following certifications are highly desired:

• CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+)
• GIAC Intrusion Analyst Certification (GIAC)
• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
• Certified Information Security Manager ® (CISM ®)
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Other equivalent information security certification

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.