The Executives are responsible for implementing the programs necessary to align the United States Secret Service Information Technology (IT) personnel, resources, and assets. This includes all systems and infrastructure that support Department-wide missions and activities, required to lead a unified DHS effort to prevent and deter terrorist attacks.

As a Cybersecurity Executive in the DHS Cybersecurity Service, you will lead and oversee multifaceted aspects of the United States Secret Service mission, programs, and personnel. You will apply your technical executive leadership expertise to:

• Ensure day-to-day operational synchronicity within the agency to implement and manage programs necessary to align US Secret Service IT personnel, resources and assets or detect and evict adversaries from U.S. networks.
• Provide strategic oversight for developing, exercising, and coordinating execution of operational plans, including supporting the development of the OCIO Strategic Plan.
• Formulate programs, priorities, and policies supporting the OCIO's objectives.
• Guide leaders and teams within and across US Secret Service to meet operational compliance requirements, steward agency finances, and effectively manage, reduce, and mitigate increasing cybersecurity risks.
• Develop and maintain incident response plans, ensuring rapid detection, containment, and mitigation of cyber incidents.
• Supervise and assign work to be accomplished by subordinates leading large growing teams in dynamic environments working to reduce the prevalence of vulnerabilities and exploitable conditions that are most likely to be used by malicious actors to achieve their goals. This includes planning and establishing work schedules, determining performance standards, and evaluating work performance, counseling employees on work and administrative matters, selecting candidates for vacancies, resolving complaints, effecting disciplinary actions, promoting employee development, and ensures that subordinates comply with laws, regulations, and DHS policies pertaining to ethics, security, travel, safety, procurement, fiscal management, and other areas, as appropriate.
• Advise senior USSS leaders with decision-making related to a variety of information technology priorities.
• Oversee the development, implementation, and management of policies, standards, and guidance in accordance with federal laws, regulations, and DHS Directives.
• Manage operational partnerships with Federal, State, local, territorial, tribal government partners, international, and industry stakeholders, integrating requisite operational capabilities, resources, and processes for meeting specific mission needs and expand USSS cybersecurity capabilities, technical products, and guidance.
• Serve as a Directorate representative in meetings with senior officials, local governments, and senior executives in the public and private sectors.
• Determine scope of change needed to maintain security authentication technology for appropriateness and compliance to allow for a secure and trusted computing environment.
• Ensure Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) compliance for the Office. Controls allocation of resources and budget formulation for the integration of security programs across disciplines.
• Lead the evaluation of the agency mission, goals, and plans to develop an IT architecture plan.
• Develop long-range plans identifying and evaluating new information technologies to improve productivity, reliability, and resource utilization for information systems, modifying organizational structure(s) accordingly to coincide and accommodate IT infrastructure support goals and objectives.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or national.
• You must be 18 years of age.
• Must be registered for the Selective Service (if you are a male).
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI security clearance.
• Must be able to submit to a drug test prior to your appointment and random drug testing while you occupy the position.
• Must be able to comply with ethics and standards of conduct requirements, including completing a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE278) upon entry, and annually thereafter.
• May be required to serve a 3 year probationary period.
• Submit a credit check after a conditional offer of employment has been accepted.
• May be subject to submit a Counterintelligence (CI) polygraph examination prior to your appointment.

Qualifications

These opportunities are in the Executive Track. DHS Cybersecurity Service employees start at career levels and salaries matching their experience and expertise.

Cybersecurity Executives generally have 15+ years of cybersecurity work experience and 5+ years of leadership experience and are either:

• Capable of serving as an executive-level cybersecurity manager who serves as a Component senior functional authority--or DHS-wide leader--and oversees multiple, highly visible Component or DHS cybersecurity programs; or
• Capable of serving as a seasoned cybersecurity executive who serves as a DHS-wide cybersecurity leader overseeing expansive, national cybersecurity programs, and multiple multi-level organizations as direct reports to presidential appointees.

How you will be evaluated

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

All DHS Cybersecurity Service applicants participate in a multi-phase assessment process, which varies by career track. For the Executive Career Track, applicants participate in a two-phase assessment process:

• You must successfully complete Phase I to be invited to advance to Phase II.
• The total time commitment for both phases is approximately 4 hours (many applicants require less time!).
• Before each phase, DHS will e-mail you instructions and information to help you prepare.
• Monitor your e-mail to ensure you have plenty of time to complete assessments prior to any deadlines or request an extension, if necessary.

• Unproctored - you choose the time and location.
• Includes three assessments: (1) an executive work simulation that you will have up to 4 hours to complete; (2) an executive situational judgement test that you will have up to 3 hours to complete; and (3) a leadership behavioral index test that you will have unlimited time to complete.
• The three assessments take about 3.5 hours (on average) to complete.
• No knowledge of DHS is required for these assessments.
• Requires a computer with audio (speakers or headphones) and a reliable internet connection.

• Online video or in-person interview - you coordinate with DHS to schedule
• 1 hour to complete
• Discuss your cybersecurity career journey, including the cybersecurity specializations (called technical capabilities in the DHS Cybersecurity Service; visit here to learn more about the technical capabilities) in which you have the most expertise and experience.
• Provide your responses to interview questions, including work-related scenarios to assess your capability to lead technical cybersecurity talent and cybersecurity-focused organizations.