Listing Description
Position: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST- INFOSEC
Open and Close Dates: 09/20/2022 to 010/03/2022
Location: Washington, DC
Salary: $134,304 - $227,534 per year
Summary
Office of Information Technology (OIT) supports the Commission and staff of the SEC in all aspects of information technology.
This position closes on October 3, 2022 and is open to US Citizens.
Duties
· Leading an analytical team's response to complex and/or high visibility incidents.
· Effectively communicating with senior leadership about complex technical findings from investigations into anomalies and/or complex incidents in an enterprise environment.
· Automating analytical tasks related to network defense and incident response.
· Performing historical and near real-time network traffic and log analysis.
· Ensuring that the Security Operations Center follows relevant policy and guidance while leading an incident response, such as the US-CERT Federal Incident Notification Guidelines, NIST SP 800-61, and CISA's Cybersecurity Incident Response Playbook.
· Preparing detailed analytical reports on complex and/or high visibility incidents in an enterprise environment.
· Monitoring emerging cyber threat intelligence that could potentially impact or influence the how the Security Operations Center performs network defense and incident response.
· Expand the scope, reduce the redundancy, and improve the fidelity and timeliness of security-relevant event detection.
Qualifications
All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
Qualifying experience may be obtained in the private or public sector. 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
BASIC REQUIREMENT: Applicant must possess IT related experience demonstrating each of the four competencies: reviewing work to ensure it is in line with established standards or to identify deficiencies (Attention to Detail); collaborating with customers to identify their information technology needs or to resolve their hardware and software problems (Customer service); explaining technical information orally to non-technical audiences (Oral Communication); and evaluating alternatives to recommend solutions to hardware or software problems (Problem Solving).
MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: In addition to meeting the basic requirement, applicants must also meet the minimum qualification requirement. Applicants must have one year of specialized experience at the SK/GS-13 the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors); which include:
writing detailed analytical reports on information system compromises and/or data breaches in an enterprise environment;
providing junior analysts with guidance in implementation of appropriate incident handling procedures for the purpose of the capture and retention of relevant incident response artifacts;
communicating effectively with internal and external stakeholders, during an incident, in order to coordinate incident response and ensure a common operational view;
performing historical and near real-time network traffic and log analysis;
performing static and dynamic analysis of suspect websites, documents, binaries, or other artifacts; AND
automating analytical tasks related to network defense and incident response.
Additional qualifications, benefits information and the link to the application can be found here: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/678402200
Listing Details
- Salary: $134304 - $227534
- Citizenship: Not Provided
- Incentives: Not Provided
- Education: Not Provided
- Travel: Not Provided
- Telework: Not Provided