IT SPECIALIST (INFOSEC) (TITLE 5)

Full Job Description

THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 5 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.

This National Guard position is for a IT SPECIALIST (INFOSEC) (TITLE 5), Position Description Number NGT5717000 and is part of the TN 134th ARW, National Guard.

This vacancy is covered by Association of Civilian Technicians (ACT), Chapter 114 (Smoky Mountain Chapter).

GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Must have experience managing, supervising, leading, administering, developing, delivering, and supporting information technology (IT) systems and services.

Knowledge of IT principles, concepts, and methods, e.g., data storage, software applications, networking; thorough when performing work and conscientious about attention to detail.

Experience working with customers who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, or other agencies, or organizations outside the government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations.

Experience identifying problems using sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives and to make recommendations.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must have IT-related experience demonstrating each of the four competencies: Attention to Detail, Customer Service, Oral Communication, and Problem Solving and have at least 1 year of specialized experience at the next lower grade GS-11 or 36 months specialized IT experience, education, or training that approaches techniques and requirements appropriate to an assigned computer applications area or computer specialty area in an organization; experience planning the sequence of actions necessary to accomplish the assignment where this entailed coordination with others outside the organizational unit and development of project controls.

Experience that requires adaptations of guidelines or precedents to meet the needs of the assignment.

Experience preparing documentation on cost/benefit studies which involves summarizing the material and organizing it in a logical fashion.

Experience relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication and non-repudiation. Knowledge of information technology (IT) risk management policies, requirements and procedures.

Major Duties:

As an Intelligence Specialist (INFOSEC), GS-2210-11, you will Perform cyberspace operations that protect and defend (or assess the capability to protect and defend) information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation.

Evaluate and assess vulnerabilities of customer network and application server hardware, operating systems, and peripheral network equipment such as routers, bridges, switches, attached cabling system, network interface cards, modems, multiplexers and concentrators.

Hunt for and illuminate advanced persistent threats in DoW Cyber Systems and protects priority DoW missions for a specified duration.

Perform analysis and design of automated and manual systems related to the network.

Replicate tactics, techniques and procedures of specific cyber threats as appropriate to evaluate cyber defenses and prepare DoW defensive cyber operations.

Conduct cyber key terrain analysis and mission-oriented mapping, identifying cyber dependencies in mission owner network.

Assess and evaluate vulnerabilities and/or adversary activity in industrial control system (ICS) enclaves.

Prepare Unit Training Assembly, Annual Training and currency training events for Mission Ready Cyberspace Operators and is prepared for events in order to optimize training time available.

Consult with supervisors, Drill Status Guardsmen, specialists, vendors, and sister Cyberspace Operations Units to procure and maintain training range devices and software that realistically emulate mission networks which are flexibly re-configurable to emulate as needed to prepare for Cyber Protection and Industrial Control System defense missions.

Perform other duties as assigned.