SUPERVISORY IT SPECIALIST (SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION)

Full Job Description

About the Position: This position is a DOD Cyber Excepted Service (CES) personnel system position in the Excepted Service under 10 USC 1599f.

Employees occupying CES 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 USCYBERCOM - Ft.

Meade. CYBER EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITIONS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE TWO-PAGE RESUME LIMIT.

YOUR FULL RESUME WILL NEED TO BE UPLOADED TO YOUR USAJOBS PROFILE USING THE DOCUMENT TYPE "OTHER DOCUMENTS".

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.

Army CES 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 3005, "CES Employment and Placement".

If you are a veteran claiming veterans' preference, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., you must submit documents verifying your eligibility with your application package.

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; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document. This position is in the Supervision/Management Category at the Senior Work Level within the CES Occupational Structure.

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe one year of specialized experience that demonstrates the possession of knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position.

Such experience is typically in or directly related to the work of the position to be filled.

Specialized experience would be demonstrated by at least one year of applicable experience in planning and assigning work based on priority to increase efficiency and productivity; contributing to long-range planning for Command, Control, Communications, Cyber (C4) program implementation to ensure strategic objectives are achieved; providing technical and functional expertise to lead development of Independent Government Cost Estimates; establishing standard practices for managing C4 resources by using cost-benefit analysis for the Command.

Major Duties:

• Assigns work to team members based on priorities, the difficulty of the work to be performed, and the capabilities of employees.
• Oversees the development of technical data, estimates, statistics, suggestions, and other information useful to higher level managers in determining which goals and objectives to emphasize.
• Establishes and employs means to collect and analyze program-level performance metrics, and applies quantitative analysis methods to evaluate and document the extent to which established performance standards.
• Establishes and documents standard business practices for the functions assigned to the Branch for continuing management to ensure efficient, effective use of the Command’s limited C4 resources.
• On a continuing basis, captures the team's experience and lessons learned in forms suitable for the Directorate's and Command's knowledge base.
• Provides timely end-user response to investigate and resolve emergent operational anomalies or challenges (a daily event), before they seriously affect mission-essential and time-sensitive cyberspace activities.
• Installing, supporting and maintaining new server hardware and software infrastructure.
• Working closely with other departments/organizations and collaborating with other C4 staff to optimize network operations
• Ensure the timely reporting of cyber incidents through appropriate technical and operational channels in a way that promotes an accurate, meaningful, and comprehensive understanding of the cyber incident throughout its life cycle.
• Lead consistent implementation of effective reporting practices to ensure the availability of valuable data to help military decision-making and shape tactical and strategic response actions.
• Leads team members in performing systems/cloud administration functions, essential to ensure the efficient and effective operations.
• Provides accounts management, including defining and documenting account accesses, adding users, and assigning and validating log-on IDs.
• Maintains accurate and current mail box structures so members of the highly dynamic USCYBERCOM work force have necessary access to C4 assets, even as they move from team to team and location to location.
• Leads outage management and coordination to ensure USCYBERCOM teams have continuing access to mission- essential C4 assets, even when contingencies arise, which range from planned maintenance and outages associated with installation of new hardware