Clarification from the agency

This job announcement is open ONLY to Current Permanent Department of War (DoW) Employees in the Competitive Service.

• Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) on engineering solutions delivered to the Military Health System (MHS) enterprise and the DHA Chief Information Security Officer to advise on the Agency’s Cyber Security Program.
• Advise MHS CIO, other DHA and MHS senior officials on technical and engineering strategy, business operations, cyber security strategy, and architecture of DHA IT infrastructure, networks, and platforms.
• Provide strategic guidance and expert advice for enterprise IT solutions aligning with Departmental policies and adhering to industry’s best practices.
• Serve as an SME resource to DHA IT infrastructure architecture designers, engineers, and testers of solutions that support medical systems.
• Advise on the detailed analysis of existing network, platform, and computing infrastructure and recommend actionable design changes and cybersecurity enhancements and protections to optimize networking and computing infrastructure.
• Advise on the safeguarding, and the information security posture on protection of the cyber infrastructure of forward deployed sites, and the associated IT, network, and computing infrastructure required to securely operate them.
• Provide expert technical advice on research, development, and evaluation of advanced cyber defense technologies supporting the DHA, DoW, and national security missions.
• Advise on new technologies and offer recommendations for their applicability or integration with existing architecture.
• Align and partner with project management personnel and solutions architect to identify potential roadblocks and propose plans to overcome them.
• Advise leadership on policy issues or action cases that involve the identification, evaluation, selection, application, and technical insertion of new, emerging, and existing IT infrastructure supporting healthcare and administrative functions.
• Advise on cyber security, information security requirements and risks and security requirements specific to an IT system throughout the phases of the system life cycle.
• Advise on IT cybersecurity strategies, policies, controls, and procedures to protect DHA data, systems and infrastructure from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, and destruction.
• Advise on information security protections commensurate with risk and magnitude of the harm resulting from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction of information collected or maintained by on behalf of DHA.
• Advise on engineering, development, planning, and configuration management of IM/IT infrastructure, networks, and platforms.
• Offer actionable recommendations on changes to policies, short- and long-range IT planning and associated processes for achieving IT reform and infrastructure efficiencies.
• Propose and demonstrate meaningful, enforceable, and persistent engineering and infrastructure policy/guidance, and endorse centralized strategies across the entire DHA.
• Advise on securing systems both physically and logically, conducting vulnerability assessments, designing security architectures, managing security audits, and reporting on network security issues.
• Advise on monitoring cybersecurity incidents and threats, incident response efforts, and forensic investigations of security breaches, intrusions, and malicious activities.
• Recommend protective/corrective measures when a cyber security incident/ vulnerability is discovered; propose plans of actions/milestones or remediation plans are in place for vulnerabilities identified during risk assessments/audits/inspections.
• Advise the MHS CIO (j6) on the development of an IT Strategic Plan to keep the goals of military health care across the operational continuum from peace to war.

Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• You must submit to a drug test and receive a negative drug test before you can be appointed into this position. Designated and/or Random Drug Testing required.
• You may be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final Top Secret/SCI 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.
• The individual selected will be required to file an Executive Branch Personnel Financial Disclosure Report (OGE-278) in accordance with the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.
• 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

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

• Current Civilian Employees of the Defense Health Agency (DHA)
• Current Permanent Department of War (DoW) Civilian Employee

To meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, you must show that you possess the Mandatory Technical Qualifications, and other qualifications, if applicable, listed below.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (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. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

To meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, you must show that you possess the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs) within your resume. Your resume must be no more than 2-pages using no less than 10-point font with no less than 1-inch margins all around to describe your qualifications. If you submit a resume that exceeds the two-page limit and/or does not meet the margin or font limitations stated herein, you will immediately be deemed ineligible for this position and will receive no further consideration. Your resume should include examples of experience, education, and accomplishments applicable to the qualification(s). If your resume does not reflect demonstrated evidence of these qualifications, you may not receive consideration for the position.

Do NOT submit a separate narrative specifically addressing the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs).

MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (MTQs): Your resume should demonstrate accomplishments that would satisfy mandatory technical qualifications.

TQ 1. In-depth knowledge and experience advising senior technology leaders and/or DoW or commercial healthcare CIOs on successful, full lifecycle technical implementations in direct support of MHS IT projects and major IT programs.

TQ 2. Demonstrated ability in advising on deployment of secure networking solutions at the enterprise level that may reduce cyber security threats, fill cyber capability gaps, and manage Zero Trust architecture and offensive/defensive cyber operations.

All qualifications and education (if applicable) must be met by the closing date of this announcement and clearly documented in your resume.

How you will be evaluated

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

Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.

You will be evaluated for this job on the quality and extent of your total accomplishments and experience. Your application will be evaluated by a rating and ranking panel. Highly qualified candidates may undergo an interview and a reference check.

Once the application process is complete, a review of your resume and supporting documentation will be conducted. If you meet the minimum qualifications, your application package will be further reviewed to determine if you possess the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (TQs) listed above. MTQs must be thoroughly addressed within your two (2) page resume. Separate narratives will not be accepted or reviewed.

The documents you are required to submit vary based on the authority you are using to apply (i.e., applying as a veteran, applying as a current permanent Federal employee, applying as a reinstatement, etc). Please review the following links to see which documents you need to provide to prove your eligibility to apply: Applicant Checklist for Internal/MP Announcements (DoD)

As described above, your complete application includes your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which prove your eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you will be marked as having an incomplete application package and you will not be considered any further.

1. Your resume:

• All applicants are required to submit a resume limited to two (2) pages (i.e., 1 page that is double-sided or 2 pages that are one-sided each) with no less than 10-point font and no less than 1-inch margins all around, showing all relevant experience. PLEASE DO NOT USE USAJOBS RESUME BUILDER.
• For each relevant work experience, make sure you include the employer's name, job title, start and end dates (include month and year), for qualifications purposes, the number of hours worked per week, and a brief description that show you can perform the tasks at the required level listed in the job announcement. If your resume does not contain this information, your application may be marked as incomplete, and you may not receive consideration for this position.
• Use plain language. Avoid using acronyms and terms that are not easily understood. The hiring agency will not make assumptions about what's in your resume.
• If your resume includes a photograph or other inappropriate material or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualification determinations, and you may not be considered for this vacancy.
• For additional information, to include formatting tips, see: What to include in your resume.

2. Other supporting documents:

• Most recent Performance Appraisal, if applicable
• Proof of Eligibility to Apply: Your application must include the documents which prove you are eligible to apply for the vacancy. The Proof of Eligibility document describes authorities commonly used in merit promotion recruitment and what document(s) are required to prove you meet the requirements of the authority. You must meet the requirements of at least one of the authorities listed in the Who May Apply section above to receive further consideration.
• CURRENT FEDERAL CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEE: Must provide a copy of your current Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50) or equivalent personnel action form reflecting you're a current Federal Civil Service employee.

NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the application package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certificates may contain personal information for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal information before you submit your application. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility.

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