You will serve as the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic Senior Scientific Technical Manager for Cybersecurity and Test & Evaluation (T&E) of Naval Command, Control, Communications, Computers Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems.

Duties

You will serve as the Command leader for engineering, analysis and assessment of performance, functionality, vulnerabilities, solutions and exploitation within and against supporting infrastructure (software, hardware, networks). You will coordinate with Command Chief Engineer, to develop technology road maps and collaborate across NAVWAR/NIWC to define a vision and develop strategies to fill required manpower, facility, equipment, and financial resource needs. You will provide technical leadership and best practices for improving Cybersecurity, engineering and Test and Evaluation posture on all NIWC supported systems. You will collaborate with Cybersecurity and Test and Evaluation technical leaders across the Naval Research and Development Establishment on the overall direction and proposed solutions. You will work with employees to resolve challenges and conflicts, and proactively seek to resolve complaints and grievances.

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 complete ethics orientation within three months of appointment and submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450, within 30 days of appointment.
• 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 is a Cyberspace Workforce position work role code 901 Executive Cyber Leader proficiency level Advanced, incumbent is required to obtain and maintain qualifications in DoDM 8140.03 Cyber Workforce Qualification and Department of Navy policies.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Supervisors in the executive branch have a heightened personal responsibility for advancing government ethics. You will be required to review the 14 General Principles of Ethical Conduct at 5 CFR 2635.101.

Qualifications

The applicant is to provide a separate narrative statement which describes fully, but concisely, how his/her experience supports each of the following Mandatory Technical Qualifications. Each technical qualification narrative should not exceed 2 pages. Failure to address these specific qualifications in a separate narrative statement will eliminate you from consideration: 1. Demonstrated experience in cybersecurity to include expertise in, computer network defense, computer network attack, vulnerability analysis, computer network exploitation, network architectures, cyber forensics, and commercial could security design/integration with government networks. 2. Demonstrated experience in cybersecurity and their related technologies, to include new or innovated trends in cybersecurity - such as experience and/or knowledge of Zero Trust Architectures, automated testing/certification (DEVSECOPS), leveraging supervised or unsupervised AI/ML in cybersecurity defense, continuous monitoring, integration of cybersecurity into Digital Engineering tools and processes, and quantum resilient cryptography. 3. Demonstrated ability to lead R&D, secure coding, system prototyping, systems integration, and test and evaluation of complex projects supporting information Warfare systems, including the underlying science, and engineering principles. 4. Demonstrated ability to conduct long-range, strategic planning efforts with internal and external stakeholders in cyber activities. Such efforts should include the design and integration of cyber strategy that outlines the vision, mission, and goals that align with the larger organization's strategic plan. 5. Demonstrated ability to communicate (oral and written), forge coalitions, and cultivate partnerships inside and outside of large organizations, building relevant relationships with other DoD and DON organizations including NAVWAR 5.0, Program Executive Offices (PEOs), NIWC Pacific, FLTCYBERCOM, as well as other warfare centers and entities throughout the Naval Research and Development Establishment (NR&DE). 6. Demonstrated experience in effectively leading and managing the human capital aspects of a large organization to include change management, conflict resolution, diversity initiative, and resource management of competing requirements form employees, command leadership, and sponsors. Experience must include leading technical and non-technical workforce across a broad spectrum of skill sets and dispersed locations focused on developing, collating, sharing and promulgating products, solutions, methodologies, patterns, and best practices. 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=GS-PROF AND 0801 Professional Engineering Series 1550 Computer Science Series 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:

For 0854/0855 Professional Engineering Series:
A. Degree: Engineering. Successful completion of a bachelor's or higher engineering degree from an accredited college or university. 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 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.
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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:
(I) 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; or
(II) 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; or
(III) 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; or
(IV) 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.)

For 1550 Computer Science Series: 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.

An advanced degree of Master's or Ph.D. in one of the educational fields listed above is highly desirable.

Contacts

• Address NAVWARSYSCEN ATLANTIC CHARLESTON SC PO Box 190022 North Charleston, SC 29419-9022 US
• Name: Dept of the Navy Executive Hiring
• Email: usn.seattle-wa.ochrsvdopscenwa.mbx.don-executive-hiring@us.navy.mil