Clarification from the agency

Citizens of the United States of America and those eligible to work in the United States of America.

The Circuit security team, working from a formal IT security plan, provides risk management, vulnerability management, and IT security innovation to the court units within the Eleventh Circuit. This work includes support for national tools, policy creation and review, training, risk management strategy, and an annual independent assessment process.

• Provide technical advice on network security for court units throughout the Eleventh Circuit.
• Answer technical questions for Eleventh Circuit court units regarding national network security requirements, including IT Security assessment requirements.
• Work with and influence multiple court divisions within the circuit to align court strategies with secure, high-performance systems.
• Provide subject matter expertise for areas including firewalls, the Domain Name System (DNS), and other network technologies.
• Track and support circuit-wide implementation of national IT security tools for scanning, logging, and patching.
• Provide guidance in designing security architecture roadmaps and documenting architecture decisions.
• Assist with developing secure baseline configurations for court units' networks, endpoints, and applications.
• Assist Eleventh Circuit court units with implementing network access control measures.
• Conceive, develop, document, and manage IT security projects.
• Troubleshoot and diagnose cyber defense infrastructure anomalies and recommend resolutions.
• Regularly collaborate with the Administrative Office of the Courts' National Logging Service (NLS) team to gain backend IT security insight and roadmaps for upcoming national initiatives.
• Engage with the judiciary NLS community to identify common data issues and data requests.
• Assist local court units with NLS investigations after cybersecurity incidents.
• Identify insecure enterprise tool configurations as part of annual court unit assessments.
• Assist local court units with exploring and implementing custom data solutions when national solutions do not exist.
• Translate and document technical terms into non-technical language.
• Train non-automation personnel in automation techniques and processes.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Conditions of employment

• Applicants must be United States citizens or eligible to work for the federal government.
• All applicant information is subject to verification.
• All offers of employment are provisional pending successful completion of a background check or investigation and a favorable employment suitability determination. Selectees to high-sensitive positions such as this must successfully complete a ten-year background investigation, and subsequent favorable suitability determination, and every five years thereafter will be subject to a re-investigation.
• It is the policy of this court that all new personnel are hired for a twelve-month initial probationary period, at the end of which time their work and progress will be evaluated.
• All court employees are required to adhere to the Code of Conduct for Judicial Employees.
• Employees of the United States Circuit Court are considered "at-will" employees, and, as such, may be terminated with or without cause.
• The Office of Personnel Management civil service position classification standards and appeal procedures do not apply to federal court employees.
• This position is subject to Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) for payroll deposit.

Qualifications

• Four years of experience in information security/cybersecurity.
• Experience in network security, incident handling and response, and vulnerability management.
• Ability to travel (25% - 50%).

How you will be evaluated

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

Applicants will also be evaluated based on the application materials submitted.