Do you possess penetration testing (or similar) skills and want to use those skills to protect the USA against cutting-edge foreign counterintelligence threats? Are you interested in growing your technical chops across a broad range of topics? FBI Counterintelligence seeks a senior cybersecurity engineer to conduct sensitive operations informing defense of USA from foreign entities while leading a small, highly technical team to develop and deploy unique cyber capabilities.

Duties

GS-13: Analyze cyber data obtained from technical collection, Confidential Human Source (CHS) reports, and open source research to identify security vulnerabilities, and other access vectors analyzed in cyber systems/networks. Formulate plans to use accepted operational tools to meet FBI technical collection requirements of the Strategic Exploitation Unit (SEU) and to persuade executive management for approval. Integrate various tools into a complete operations plan utilizing the office's custom integration framework. Keep abreast of industry trends within the information security community, via research, trainings and relevant industry conferences. GS-14: In addition to the above, the selectee will: Design, implement and test the results of integration plans and procedures to ensure the operational efficiency of tools and their seamless integration between components. Utilize project management and collaboration tools to communicate status updates and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders, while documenting development, testing and operational activities.

Requirements

Qualifications

GS-13: Applicant must possess at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level. SE is defined as follows: Developed and managed the implementation of information security procedures and policies. Managed the assessment of information security systems. Conducted forensic investigations of computer security breaches, viruses and intrusions. GS-14: Applicant must possess at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 grade level. SE is defined as follows: In addition the above: Designed and implemented appropriate security controls to identify infrastructure vulnerabilities. Safeguarded networks and data systems from cyberattacks. Led/facilitated red team exercises, conducting penetration testing, or similar, within the last five years (e.g., Industry Capture the Flag {CTF} competitions).

Education

Positive Education Requirement: This position has a specific education requirement; all applicants must verify completion of this basic educational requirement by submitting a copy of their college transcripts by the closing date of the vacancy announcement.

A. Degree:

• Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board of Engineering & 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.

OR

B. Combination of education and experience:

• College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:

1. Professional registration or licensure -- 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 example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.

1. Written Test -- 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.
2. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
3. Related curriculum -- 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 1 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.) Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above requirements provided you can show foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States.

Contacts

• Address Federal Bureau of Investigation 935 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20535 US
• Name: Robert White
• Email: [email protected]