IT SPECIALIST (OPERATION SYSTEMS)

Description:

We are committed to:

• Teamwork: Partnering at all levels and across organizational boundaries for mission accomplishment.
• Integrity: Adherence to the highest legal and ethical principles in our responsibilities.
• Excellence: Unrivaled defense intelligence expertise.
• Service: Putting the welfare of the Nation and commitment to our mission before oneself.

Requirements:

ASSESSMENT FACTORS

1. Monitors the direction and goals of the DoDIIS/IC ITE to understand the impact of possible solutions and determine if new solutions are applicable to the enterprise or organization.
2. Conducts trend analysis on IT errors, successes, and failures to set rectification strategies that include new IT technologies and/or best practices.
3. Develops and implements the technical solution needed to meet the Agency’s operational needs.
4. Leads efforts through the successful delivery of a change in the IT product, service, and/or process to meet customer and mission needs.
5. Allocates and delegates available resources to peers to accomplish project deliverables in timely and effective manner.

HIGHLY DESIRED SKILLS


1. Professional IT certification(s) in cloud (AWS, Azure, Google), virtualization (VMware, Citrix, Microsoft), systems administration (Microsoft, Red Hat), software development.
2. Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and/or Agile Scrum Master certification with a solid knowledge of Risk Management Framework, NIST-SP 800-53, ICD 503, CNSSI 1253 guides and policies.
3. Demonstrated experience with VSCode, Jupyter Notebooks, AWS Sagemaker, Azure ML, Python, C#, GoLang, ASP, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, and/or web development.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

All Applicants must meet the following minimum qualification requirements in order to be considered for this position:

Requirements may be met either through Education and/or Experience and/or a combination of both.

Education:

All academic degrees and coursework must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions. The coursework must be either undergraduate or graduate and must include a minimum of 24 semester hours in one, or a combination of the following: computer science, engineering, information science, information systems management, mathematics, operations research, statistics, or technology management.

Level/Education:

GG-07 : One (1) full year of graduate level education; or Bachelor’s degree with superior academic achievement

GG-09: Master’s degree or equivalent graduate degree; OR two (2) full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master’s degree or equivalent graduate degree

GG-11 and above: Ph.D or equivalent doctoral degree; OR three (3) full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree

Experience

• Must be IT-related (paid or unpaid);
• May have involved the completion of specific and intensive training (for example, IT certification);
• Should have equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position and should have been gained in the same or related field as the work of the position being filled;
• Should have been gained in the IT field or through the performance of work where the primary concern was IT;
• Should consist of at least one year at a level equivalent to the next lower GG level;

And

• Must have demonstrated each of the following four competencies:

1. Attention to detail: thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail;
2. Customer Service: works with clients and customers to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations, knows about available products and services and is committed to providing quality products and services;
3. Oral Communication: effectively expresses information, takes into account the audience and nature of the information, 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 makes appropriate recommendations.
and

Specialized Experience

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position and is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled.