This position is located at Office of the Inspector General for Tax Admin,Office of Investigations- Deputy Inspector General for Investigations. As a/an Computer Scientist (Cybersecurity), you will manage programs which leverage computer experience and expertise in order to investigate potential threats against IRS network infrastructure..

Duties

The mission of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration's (TIGTA) Office of Investigations (OI) is to protect the Internal Revenue Service from internal and external threats and corruption that could negatively impact the IRS' ability to administer the nation's tax laws. We detect and deter waste, fraud and abuse in IRS programs and operations and protect the IRS against internal misconduct and corruption as well as external attempts to corrupt or threaten its employees. We provide independent oversight to the Treasury Department on matters involving IRS activities & the IRS Office of Chief Counsel. As a Computer Scientist (Cybersecurity), you will: Serve as a computer science subject matter expert with an in-depth experience and knowledge in computer science, data analysis methodologies, statistical reporting, or data mining within large data sets to enable discovery against cyber actors, their networks, and intrusion techniques. Utilize established technical/cyber processes and procedures, as well as develop new and innovative technological approaches to resolve a wide array of technical investigations conducted by the TIGTA OI. Design, develop, and support new and current software, network, and other analytical applications for information systems to conduct relational analysis of large amounts of information of varying types (big data analytics), including the detection and identification of patterns of manipulation of IRS portals from large, non- standard data sets. The research and analysis consists of planning, designing, developing, acquiring, documenting, testing, implementing, integrating, maintaining, and modifying systems for solving problems; accomplishing work processes; and assisting investigators in identifying, defining, and resolving technological violations of Federal law and other matters relating to electronic Federal tax administration. Apply experience with open source and enterprise data science, collection, database, and dissemination systems to facilitate leading innovation and applying technical processes. This experience and knowledge includes utilizing Splunk to search, analyze and visualize the machine-generated data gathered from the websites, applications, sensors, devices etc., Unix/Linux based information systems, Shell Scripting, SSH/TLS (Secure Shell/Transport Layer Security) and certificate-based authentication; programming in complex Turing Complete languages; demonstrating an aptitude to learn new languages; and scripting and coding in; Go ("GoLang"), Python, Java, JavaScript, PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor), HTML(5), Apache, Apache Products (Kafka, Tika) or similar languages, to achieve novel results in dynamic investigations. Possess a working knowledge of data modeling/tagging, information security and architecture, target/entity management, and Cyber taxonomies sufficient to conduct monitoring and research to provide TIGTA managers with recommendations concerning appropriate data sources for planning and execution of investigations.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For the GS-14, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Serving as a technical authority, and technical implementer for multiple IT projects including but not limited to cyber security, predictive analytics, software system integration, design and development of data models, statistical analysis, network traffic analyzing (i.e. wire taps) and/or database design.

Education

Education Requirements: A bachelor's degree in computer science or bachelor's degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus. All academic degrees and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions.

The education generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. If you are qualifying based on foreign education, you must submit proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency. Refer to the OPM instructions.

Contacts

• Address Office of Investigations- Deputy Inspector General for Investigations Administrative Resource Center Parkersburg, WV 26101 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-7300
• Email: [email protected]