Clarification from the agency

This vacancy announcement is open to applicants who currently live in the Washington, D.C. commuting area, and to current employees of the Federal Judiciary nationwide (AO and U.S. Courts).

The Supervisory Information Technology Specialist (Security) is a recognized IT security expert with a strong offensive and defensive cybersecurity background, program management experience, and coordination expertise.

The Supervisory Information technology Specialist (Security) serves as the Threat Emulation and Readiness Branch Chief, a senior-level cybersecurity leader and performs multiple and varying assignments under the direction of the Chief, Security Operations Divisions. The incumbent serves as the primary adversary emulation coordinator and coordinates and manages these activities across the federal judiciary.

1. Leading, directing, and overseeing the Threat Emulation and Readiness Branch, which delivers time-bound services in support of judiciary risk management objectives.
2. Directing the development of adversary emulation methodologies to continually improve risk identification within the judiciary's information technology environment.
3. Overseeing defensive validation and collaboration (purple team) activities to assess detection coverage, response effectiveness, and operational workflows in coordination with the Security Operations Center and Security Operations Support Branch.
4. Leading the design and execution of tabletop events and cybersecurity exercises to evaluate local court, circuit, and enterprise capabilities for incident response.
5. Ensuring threat emulation and readiness activities are conducted as scoped services offerings with defined objectives, rules of engagement, authorization, and post-engagement reporting.
6. Establishing engagement models, prioritization criteria, and workflow processes to align branch reporting with the Judiciary Information Security Framework.
7. Overseeing the development of scalable threat emulation and readiness service offerings that meet those typically achieved in a full red team engagement through automation, modular design and dynamic risk context.
8. Overseeing delivery of engagement results and lessons learned, and making risk-informed recommendations to court and Department of the Chief Information Officer leadership.
9. Managing branch personnel, contractor support, and resource planning to sustain a scalable, engagement-based service model across all assigned teams.

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 in ALL of the following:

1. Developing metrics, reporting, and lessons learned to communicate risk, gaps, and readiness outcomes to senior leadership.
2. Developing scalable or automated security assessment or validation capabilities intended to support repeatable short-duration engagements.
3. Leading cyber exercises, tabletop events, or incident response simulations involving executive decision makers.

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.