This position is located in the Headquarters, Defense Commissary Agency, Information Technology Group, Operations Directorate, Production Operation Systems Division. The purpose of the position is to provide technical assistance in ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems, networks, and data through the planning, testing, analysis, development, implementation, maintenance, and enhancement of information systems security programs, policies, procedures and tools.

Duties

Serves as the Information Systems Security Officer, providing technical expertise in ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of systems, networks and data.Maintains compliant Risk Management Framework posture, ensuring proper implementation and reporting of applicable security controls. Obtains and maintains certification and accreditation of assigned systems. Ensures cybersecurity inspections, tests and reviews are coordinated and completed properly. Plans, tests, analyzes, develops, implements, maintains and enhances information systems security programs, policies, procedures and tools. Assists with financial audits and the payment card industry annual assessments. Ensures compliance with an Information Assurance (IA) audit program. Serves as a technical authority on vulnerability assessments and security audits including vulnerability scanning tools. Ensures security weaknesses are tracked, mitigated, and documented using the Plan of Action and Milestone (POAM) processes. This position offers promotion potential to a higher grade. To prepare you for the higher grade, work assignments will be progressively more complex. After meeting all qualifications and requirements for the next grade level and with your supervisor's recommendation, you may be promoted without further competition. However, promotion is neither guaranteed nor automatic. Read the entire announcement before starting the application process.

Requirements

• Be a U.S. citizen or national. Applicants with a Permanent Resident Card are authorized to live and work in the U.S. but are not eligible for employment in positions requiring U.S. citizenship. If selected, proof of citizenship is required.
• Meet minimum age requirement. See the Additional Information section for more information.
• Males born after 12-31-1959 must be registered with or exempt from Selective Service.
• Appointment is subject to successful verification of identity and employment eligibility through E-Verify. Learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, at https://www.e-verify.gov/.
• Appointment is subject to a favorable suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation. New federal employees will be fingerprinted.
• Be able to obtain and maintain clearance eligibility based on the appropriate background investigation.
• May be subject to a probationary/trial period.
• Have salary paid through direct deposit.
• Meet the physical requirements identified in the Qualifications section.

Qualifications

You must meet the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) qualifications for series 2210 and additional requirements by the announcement closing date. Your resume (and/or transcript if necessary) must clearly show that you have the qualifications described below. You can use experience, education, superior academic achievement, or a combination of experience and education to qualify. Experience: Requirements that must be met by the closing date: Applicants applying at the GS-07 grade level must possess One (1) year specialized experience at the GS-05 grade level (or equivalent) by the closing date of this announcement. One year of progressively higher-level graduate education OR Superior Academic Achievement. Education must be from a college or university accredited by an organization approved by the U.S. Department of Education (https://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/) and in an appropriate field of study as described elsewhere in this announcement. OR A combination of experience and education equaling 100% of the qualifications. Examples of qualifying experience include: Assists with developing policies and procedures to ensure systems reliability and accessibility. Assist with systems security evaluations, audits, and reviews. Assist with risk and vulnerability assessments of planned and installed information systems to identify vulnerabilities, risks, and protection needs. Applicants applying at the GS-09 grade level must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07 grade level by the closing date of this announcement. OR Education: Master's Degree or equivalent graduate degree or two full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's degree or equivalent graduate degree. OR Combination of experience and education. To calculate the combination, divide your total months of experience by 12, then divide your graduate level semester hours by the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent 1 year of full-time study or 18 and add the two percentages. If the total is 100%, you meet the minimum qualifications through a combination of experience and education. Examples of qualifying experience include: Develop policies and procedures to ensure systems reliability and accessibility. Conduct systems security evaluations, audits, and reviews. Conduct risk and vulnerability assessments of planned and installed information systems to identify vulnerabilities, risks, and protection needs. Applicants applying at the GS-11 grade level must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-09. OR Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree. Examples of qualifying experience include: Appling cybersecurity/information assurance concepts and techniques to ensure compliancy with critical components of existing or new software development and the use of mandated DOD methods for information assurance compliancy. Performing technical validation activities associated with Defense Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Program (DIACAP) or Risk Management Framework (RMF). Additional Requirements that must be met by the closing date: Time-in-grade applies to the promotion of current and former federal employees who hold or have held a permanent GS position in either the competitive or excepted service in the previous 52 weeks, including current employees applying under VEOA. Your application package must contain proof you meet this requirement. See Required Documents for more information. For GS-07: You must have 52 weeks of Federal service at or equivalent to GS-05. For the GS-09: You must have 52 weeks of Federal service at or equivalent to GS-07. For the GS-11: You must have 52 weeks of Federal service at or equivalent to the GS-09 Time after competitive appointment. Current federal civilian employees must have completed at least 90 days of federal civilian service since being selected for a non temporary appointment from a competitive examination register of eligibles (an announcement opened to the public) or under a direct hire authority. Physical requirements: The work is sedentary and does not require any special physical effort. Overtime: Occasional Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt Bargaining Unit Status: Not Covered Obligated Position: No Reemployed Annuitants Considered: No, DoD criteria not met. Work environment: The work area is adequately lighted, heated, and ventilated. The work environment involves everyday risks or discomforts that require normal safety precautions. Recruitment/Relocation Incentives Offered: No Telework eligible: Yes Remote work eligible: No

Education

Foreign Education. When using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to qualify, you must show a private organization specializing in interpreting foreign education programs has deemed the foreign education equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program or that a U.S. accredited college or university has given full credit for the foreign courses. You must include a copy of the letter containing the results of the equivalency evaluation with a course by course listing in your application package(required document).

Contacts

• Address DECA HQ 1300 Eisenhower Street Fort Gregg-Adams, VA 23801 US
• Name: DeCA HQ Servicing team
• Phone: 614-692-2331
• Email: [email protected]