IT Specialist

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled IT Specialist to join our team at the Defense Intelligence Agency. As an IT Specialist, you will play a critical role in supporting the agency's mission by providing expert-level technical guidance and support for a wide range of IT systems and applications.

Key Responsibilities

⁠ ⁠Apply decision-making techniques in complex situations to include anticipating and recognizing best practices and choosing options to maximize benefits to the office, directorate, or Agency.

⁠ ⁠Take a lead role to build collaborative working relationships across DIA by encouraging colleagues to engage team members and others on specific or general issues.

⁠ ⁠Develop, implement, and coordinate activities designed to ensure, protect, and restore IT systems, service, and capabilities.

⁠ ⁠Identify root cause of incidents and make appropriate recommendations to avoid future failures.

⁠ ⁠Monitor and evaluate systems compliance with IT security requirements and provide advise and guidance in the implementation of IT security policies and procedures that support the development and operations of network.

Requirements

⁠ ⁠U.S. Citizenship

⁠ ⁠Drug Test

⁠ ⁠Security Investigation

Qualifications

⁠ ⁠ASSESSMENT FACTORS

1. Applies decision making techniques in complex situations to include anticipating and recognizing best practices and choosing options to maximize benefits to the office, directorate, or Agency.

2. Takes a lead role to build collaborative working relationships across DIA by encouraging colleagues to engage team members and others on specific or general issues.

3. Develops, implements, and coordinates activities designed to ensure, protect, and restore IT systems, service, and capabilities.

4. Identifies root cause of incidents and makes appropriate recommendations to avoid future failures.

5. Monitors and evaluates systems compliance with IT security requirements and provides advise and guidance in the implementation of IT security policies and procedures that support the development and operations of network.

Highly Desired Skills

1. Demonstrates, and utilizes, a thorough knowledge of Executive Orders, IC Directives & Standards, etc.) and how those policies apply within the various IT environments (SCI, non-SCI, and SAP).

2. Prior experience working within the Intelligence Community.

3. Experience with Risk Management Framework (RMF), NIST Security Controls, CNSS 1253, and implementing DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).

Individual Occupational Requirements Note

Applicants may meet the minimum qualification requirements for GS-5 and GS-7 positions in this series in two ways. These are described below as Alternatives A and B.

These alternatives are designed to allow eligibility either through demonstrating prior computer-related education or experience (A) or demonstrating general analytical ability through other kinds of education or experience and passing a written test (B).

Applicants who qualify on the basis of Alternative B must take a written test for competitive appointment at the applicable grade levels.

The written test is not required by OPM for inservice placement. There is no written test for applicants who qualify on the basis of Alternative A.

Education Undergraduate and Graduation Education Alternative A (for GS-5 through GS-11): Major study computer science, information science, information systems management, mathematics, statistics, operations research, or engineering, or course work that required the development or adaptation of computer programs and systems and provided knowledge equivalent to a major in the computer field.

Alternative B (for GS-5 and GS-7 only): Major study any field. or Experience General Experience (for GS-5 positions)

Alternative A:

Experience that provided a basic knowledge of data processing functions and general management principles that enabled the applicant to understand the stages required to automate a work process.

Experience may have been gained in work such as computer operator or assistant, computer sales representative, program analyst, or other positions that required the use or adaptation of computer programs and systems.

Alternative B:

Meet general experience requirements in the "Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Administrative and Management Positions ".

Specialized Experience (for positions above GS-5)

For GS-7:

Experience in the performance of tasks such as:

• Translating detailed logical steps developed by others into language codes that computers accept where this required understanding of procedures and limitations appropriate to use of a programming language. * Interviewing subject-matter personnel to get facts regarding work processes, and synthesizing the resulting data into charts showing information flow.
• Operating computer consoles where this involved choosing from among various procedures in responding to machine commands or unscheduled halts.
• Scheduling the sequence of programs to be processed by computers where alternatives had to be weighed with a view to production efficiency.
• Preparing documentation on cost/benefit studies where this involved summarizing the material and organizing it in a logical fashion. Such skills are typically gained in the computer field or through performance of work where the primary concern was the subject matter of the computer application (e.g., supply, personnel, chemical process control), and computer-related efforts were required to facilitate the basic duties. Also, work in management analysis, program analysis, or a comparable field may have provided such skills. (Such experience may also have been obtained by applicants for GS-9 and GS-11 positions in this field.)

For GS-9:

Experience that demonstrated knowledge of computer requirements and techniques in carrying out project assignments consisting of several related tasks, such as typically is the case in development of minor modifications to parts of a system on the basis of detailed specifications provided.

The assignments must have shown completion of the following, or the equivalent:

• Analysis of the interrelationships of pertinent components of the system;
• Planning the sequence of actions necessary to accomplish the assignment; and
• Personal responsibility for at least a segment of the overall project For GS-11: Experience that demonstrated accomplishment of computer project assignments that required a range of knowledge of computer requirements and techniques. For example, assignments would show, on the basis of general design criteria provided, experience in developing modifications to parts of a system that required significant revisions in the logic or techniques used in the original development.

Accomplishments, in addition to those noted for the GS-9 level, normally involve the following, or the equivalent:

• Knowledge of the customary approaches, techniques, and requirements appropriate to an assigned computer applications area or computer specialty area in an organization;
• 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; and
• Adaptation of guidelines or precedents to the needs of the assignment

For GS-12 and above:

Experience that demonstrated accomplishment of computer project assignments that required a wide range of knowledge of computer requirements and techniques pertinent to the position to be filled.

This knowledge is generally demonstrated by assignments where the applicant analyzed a number of alternative approaches in the process of advising management concerning major aspects of ADP system design, such as what system interrelationships must be considered, or what operating mode, system software, and/or equipment configuration is most appropriate for a given project.

Education Additional Information DIA positions are Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) positions in the Excepted Service under 10 U.S.C All applicants must be U.S.

citizens at the time of application.

Applicants must meet the agency's conditions of employment, to include, but not limited to, satisfactory completion of an initial special background investigation and periodic reinvestigation, completion of any required medical examination and physical requirements, completion of any required personal interviews, favorable completion of any required initial or aperiodic polygraph examinations, completion of any required drug test, satisfactory completion of a two-year Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System trial period, and completion of a civilian mobility agreement.

All employees are required to sign an agreement not to disclose, in any fashion, classified information to unauthorized persons. All civilian employees are required to participate in the DoD Direct Deposit/Electronic Fund Transfer of Pay (DD/EFT) Program.

DIA employees and applicants for employment are protected by federal laws, from discrimination on the bases of race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit based factors.

Veterans who are preference-eligible or who have been separated from the armed forces under honorable conditions are encouraged to apply.

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