Job opening: SCIENTIST
Salary: $122 198 - 186 854 per year
Published at: Feb 07 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
You will serve as a SCIENTIST in the CYBERSECURITY TEST & EVALUATION (59000)
of NAVWARSYSCEN ATLANTIC CHARLESTON SC.
Duties
You will provide technical leadership in performing penetration tests and adversarial assessments and ability to lead a highly technical team of government and contract red team operators.
You will ensure the NAVWAR Red Team (NWRT) continuously improves their understanding and usage of new and existing exploits and tools.
You will demonstrate advanced knowledge of packet crafting tools and packet-level analysis tools to craft, record, and replay network traffic flows.
You will demonstrate advanced knowledge of forensic analyses across multiple operating system environments (e.g., Windows, Linux, mobile device systems).
You will employ vulnerability scanning and exploitation tools (e.g., Nessus, Metasploit, Cobalt Strike, Powershell Empire, other tools that are part of the Kali Linux distribution) to identify
and exploit system/software vulnerabilities.
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
- 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.
- This position is designated as a Cyber IT/Cybersecurity Workforce position. You must obtain and maintain the credentials as described in SECNAV M-5239.2 for specialty area 541 level Advanced/Master within 12 months of appointment.
- 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 A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or fail the test. You will be subject to random testing.
- You will be required to complete training, obtain, and maintain a government credit card for travel and travel-related purchases.
- This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
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-13 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Leading and implementing the technical direction of teams in risk assessment methodologies, vulnerability identification, adversarial cybersecurity test and evaluation in both developmental and operational cyber environments.
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
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/computer-science-series-1550/
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 positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess
Computer Science Series, 1550
Basic Requirements:
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.
Contacts
- Address NAVWARSYSCEN ATLANTIC CHARLESTON SC
PO Box 190022
North Charleston, SC 29419-9022
US
- Name: Department of Navy EIC
- Email: [email protected]
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