You will serve as an Interdisciplinary General Engineer/Computer Scientist, in the DAiTA Group, Cyber Warfare Department of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV. Top Secret clearing with SCI.

Duties

You will serve as the PEO primary engineering and scientific advisor for technical assessments of Cyber solutions and provides the sustainment of cyber ready systems operating in and supporting the PEO and PMA objectives. You will analyze Cybersecurity, Anti-Tamper and CYBERSAFE policies, guidelines and directives to develop requirements for acquisition documentation including contracts/statements of work. You will translates Navy/DoD goals into air weapon systems objectives, requirements, specifications and schedules. You will set standards for organizing and conducting risk and vulnerability assessments and approval including the potential need for external partners. You will define optimized SW/computer system design strategies to balance the need for user access with the need to protect data/assets and create a package of cybersecurity design/measures that provides protection within realistic cost restraints.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana) is required. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or pass the test. You will be subject to random testing.
• This position is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA). Certification in the Acquisition Functional Area and category assigned to the position is required within established category timeframes
• Must obtain and maintain all required certification and/or license as a condition of employment.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12/13 grade level or pay band DP-04 in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Advanced knowledge of technical and administrative planning, execution and oversight of Cyber and Systems Security Engineering (SSE) design for protection of weapons platforms and related systems; 2) Must be skilled in conducting detailed research and analysis related to cyber and SSE technical challenges, threat and vulnerability, use sound mitigation strategies, apply best practices, and consider lessons learned to implement integrated security solutions for operational readiness and survivability in cyber contested environments; 3) Experience leading and overseeing a diverse team of interdisciplinary scientists and engineers working a variety of research and development programs focused on Cyber technology and applications to include Cyber-related electronic warfare, adversarial exploits, tool and methodology development and spectrum dominance; 4) Serve as principal advisor to the PEO Leadership team on matters pertaining to application of evolving Cyber protection tools and methods for enabling warfighting mission and capability; 5) Ensure PMA's development efforts execute proper mitigations, solutions and controls for management of cyber and SSE risk. DAWIA Requirement: This position is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) and has been identified as a Career Field; E-ENGINEERING TECH MANAGEMENT, LEVEL II-PRACTITIONER. You are responsible for meeting applicable DAWIA certification requirements, including maintaining currency in your career field. Additional information on certification requirements can be found online at http://icatalog.dau.mil/onlinecatalog/CareerLvl.aspx Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series AND https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.

Education

Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:

A transcript must be submitted with your application if qualifying using education OR the position has an education requirement. See Required Documents for additional information.

FOR 0801:
Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.

OR

Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org

OR

Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html.

OR

Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above)

OR

Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least one year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily, there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions.

FOR 1550
Successful completion of a bachelor's degree in computer science.

OR
Successful completion of a bachelor's or higher degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of my 30 semester hours were in a combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus.

Contacts

• Address NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV Naval Air Warfare Center Patuxent River, MD 20670-5304 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]