IT Specialist (NETARCH/SYSADMIN)

The United States Space Force (USSF) Combat Forces Command (CFC) Space Delta 7 (DEL 7) 76th Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (76 ISRS) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio is searching for an IT Specialist (GG-2210-12).

This position is covered by the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel Systems (DCIPS). For additional information about DCIPS, click here: https://dcips.defense.gov/.

Description:
This position serves as a full-performance Information Technology Specialist for the 76th Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Squadron (ISRS), embedded within a multi-squadron and interagency task force supporting Space Delta 7. The specialist is the primary IT expert responsible for the operational functionality and reliability of numerous classified domains and information systems. Key responsibilities include providing comprehensive system administration for classified workstations and servers across multiple operating systems; planning, installing, and troubleshooting hardware, software, and network interfaces; and upholding security integrity by managing access controls, detecting and removing cyber vulnerabilities, and ensuring compliance with Department of Defense and Air Force policies. The role also involves serving as a senior IT advisor to leadership, analyzing performance data to resolve complex technical issues, and interfacing with organizational customers to ensure all technological requirements meet their desired objectives.

The ideal candidate for this role is a professional with a comprehensive understanding of IT principles, concepts, and methods, particularly in a complex classified environment. This individual should possess extensive knowledge and skill in developing interpersonal relationships, maintaining working relations, and organizing work to meet changing deadlines. Essential qualifications include deep technical expertise in operating systems, associated devices, and system interoperability to install, upgrade, test, and maintain servers and networks, ensuring their availability, integrity, and efficiency. The candidate must be adept at systems analysis, with the ability to evaluate new and emerging IT security methods, design and maintain information systems, and ensure successful integration with existing infrastructure. Furthermore, the ideal candidate will have proven experience in planning and scheduling hardware and software installations, managing user accounts and network rights, and rigorously applying information security policies to safeguard classified information.

Key Skills and Abilities:
1. Knowledge and skill in developing interpersonal relationships, maintaining working relations, planning, organizing, reprioritizing work to meet changing deadlines, developing and conducting training of operating systems, associated devices and the interoperability of systems sufficient to install, upgrade, troubleshoot, test, and maintain those systems to optimize the functionality and performance of systems; and to ensure the availability, integrity, efficiency and reliability of servers.
2. Knowledge of operating systems, associated devices and the interoperability of systems sufficient to install, upgrade, troubleshoot, test, and maintain those systems to optimize the functionality and performance of systems; and to ensure the availability, integrity, efficiency and reliability of servers.
3. Knowledge of personnel management policies, practices, regulation, and procedures to adjust work operations to meet emergencies, change of program or production safety, and security requirements within available resources and with minimum sacrifices of quantity of quality of work; and establish program objectives or performance goal and access progress toward their achievement.
4. Knowledge of IT systems analysis and internet concepts, functions, techniques, and capabilities sufficient to evaluate new and emerging IT security methods and principles, the feasibility of proposed new systems in addition, applications software projects; and to design, test and maintain information systems and applications software and ensure successful integration with existing and anticipated infrastructure.
5. Skill and experience in planning scheduling the installation of new or modified hardware and operating systems and applications software; managing accounts, network rights, and access to systems and equipment; implementing cyber practices for ensuring the safeguarding of classified information in a complex technological environment.
6. Ability to ensure the rigorous application of information security/information assurance policies, principles and practices in the delivery of systems administrative services.

Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship Required.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance with SCI access.
• Position is designated special-sensitive and requires eligibility for access to SCI, other intelligence-related Special Sensitive information, or involvement in TS SAP to fully perform the duties and responsibilities of the position.
• A non-disclosure agreement must be signed.
• This position has been designated for drug testing. Incumbent is subject to random urinalysis testing as a condition of employment. Employee must pass initial and periodic short notice drug testing.
• May be required to travel by military or commercial aircraft.
• Eligible for situational telework only, including Emergency and OPM prescribed “Unscheduled Telework”.
• PCS is not authorized. Incentive is not authorized.
• Depending on the type of position (competitive/excepted) you are selected for, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period OR 2-year trial period.
• Upon completion of your probationary/trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
• This position will close after 5 business days or 75 applications, whichever comes first.

Qualifications

The 2210 series has an individual occupational requirement that must be met and can be viewed here. There is no Group Coverage Qualification Standard for this series.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies as related to the series and grade of the position being filled. Final qualifications determinations will be assessed based on OPM's General Schedule Qualifications Standards found here:

Interviews: You will be contacted by e-mail and/or telephone if your application is identified as qualifying for a position being filled. An interview may be conducted. If interviewed, you will be asked to address the same knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies used to initially qualify your application for the position.

Resume:You must submit a resume that may NOT exceed two pages, and the font size should not be smaller than 10 pts. You will not be considered for this vacancy if your resume exceeds two pages or is illegible/unreadable. Do NOT include photographs, inappropriate material, inappropriate content, nor personal information such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., on your resume. If the resume you submit contains such information you will not be considered for this vacancy. Your resume must provide:

1. Personal information - your full name, email and mailing addresses, phone number
2. Education information - the name of the school and the dates you attended
3. Work experience - paid and unpaid work with the following information:
   • Job title
   • Detailed duties and accomplishments
   • Employer's name and address
   • Supervisor's name and phone number
   • Starting and ending dates (If actual dates are not known, provide your best-estimated timeframes.)
   • Hours per week
   • Salary, if applicable
4. Other qualifications - skills, certifications/licenses, honors, awards, special accomplishments, and job-related training courses

College Transcripts (if applicable): Please see the Education section of this announcement for detailed information about transcripts.

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