Ensures, or participates in ensuring, the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems, networks, and data through the planning, analysis, development, implementation, maintenance, and enhancement of information systems security programs, policies, procedures, and tools.
Incumbent consults and participates in the installation, configuration, and maintenance of the organization's IT platforms to ensure the IT platform maintains its confidentiality, integrity and availability while also achieving consolidation of hardware resources to avoid unnecessary expansion of the hardware platform inventory.
Develops cybersecurity operations policy guidance for the organization and responds to requests for policy interpretation from other IT specialists, senior staff and top management.
Leads troubleshooting efforts comprised of multiple teams of various specialties to resolve local and remote application performance issues involving complex network and firewall protocols and logs to quickly and accurately isolate problem-sources, identify, and implement required corrective actions.
Serves as the principal technical leader for a technical team that oversees every phase of highly complex IT operational security projects. Leads major projects that entail such issues as new mission requirements, new customer organizations, application of new cybersecurity technologies or projects of equivalent scope.
Identifies information requiring protection and determining the level of protection required and monitors and identifies information security discrepancies.
Evaluates, acquires, configures, and uses software intended to ensure that automated systems are secure from unauthorized use, viral infection, and other problems that would compromise sensitive information in terms of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, or would compromise other aspects of overall system security.
Supervises a group of employees performing work at the GS-13 level. Provides administrative and technical supervision necessary for accomplishing the work of the unit.
Performs the administrative and human resource management functions relative to the staff supervised. Plans, schedules, and assigns work to subordinates. Establishes guidelines and performance expectations for staff members; provides feedback and periodically evaluates employee performance. Provides advice, counsel, and/or instruction to staff members. Recommends or approves appointments, selections, or reassignments to positions appropriate to the selection authority delegated. Effects disciplinary measures as appropriate to the authority delegated in this area. Carries out Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) policies and program activities.
