Information Technology Specialist (Applications Software)

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About the Position: This position is in the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS). Employees occupying DCIPS positions are in the Excepted Service and must adhere to U.S.

Code, Title 10, as well as Department of Defense Instruction 1400.25.

This position is located at the Strategic Systems Support Element, with vacancies located in Hanover, Maryland and Alexandria, Virginia.

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

10-Point Other Veterans’ Rating 30 Percent or More Disabled Veterans 5-Point Veterans' Preference Current Army Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Employee Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army) Current DoD Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Employee (non-Army) Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Interchange Agreement Disabled Veteran w/ a Service-Connected Disability, More than 10%, Less than 30% Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Prior Federal Service Employee Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible United States Citizen Applying to a DCIPS Position Army DCIPS positions apply Veteran's Preference to preference eligible candidates as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 2005, DCIPS Employment and Placement.

In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience.

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as: 1.

Maintaining a full range of system administration, local area network management, and web site development and maintenance, database management, software/hardware installation, software maintenance, and quality assurance to ensure secure, reliable, and mission-critical IT services.

2.

Managing IT projects by developing or modifying existing program architectures, system relationships, processing sequences, and internal logic while representing the organization in coordination with external Intelligence community agencies and government partners to deliver inter-operable and compliant technology solutions.

3.

Representing the organization conducting briefings for external Intelligence Community (IC), attend conferences, and participating in inter-agency conferences to achieve established software/hardware, and workforce capability objectives in support of operational and strategic mission requirements.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the Federal service (GG/GS-13).

(1) Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.(2) Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services.(3) Oral Communication - Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.(4) Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.

You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Systems Operation and Management Software Testing and Evaluation Data Systems and Management Major Duties:

• Serve as a Vulnerability Researcher and Software/Hardware Developer leader in a US Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) Unit providing VR and development expertise to a wide range of customers.
• Design and develop system specific test scenarios to test complex software from a variety of different technical perspectives.
• Serve as a senior specialist, analyzes, designs, develops, enhances, maintains, modifies, and implements complex systems and specialized applications software for a variety of organizations.
• Prepare application software requirements and designs specification for implementation of recommendations.
• As a technical advisor, respond to difficult-to-resolve trouble reports from experienced applications software specialists and organizational users.
• Assist in assessing progress against requirements, identify issues and propose solutions to meet customer end states and goals.