Job summary

This is a Washington National Guard Title 5 Excepted Service Technician position: IT SPECIALIST (POLICY AND PLANNING/ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE) Location: 225th Support Squadron Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington 98438 Air National Guard Units Appointment Type: Permanent, excepted service Advertised as: Title 5 May be used to fill one or more vacancies. *Ensure you read this announcement in its entirety, complete all application requirements, and your USA Jobs profile name is accurate*

Major duties

A GS-2210-11, IT SPECIALIST (POLICY AND PLANNING/ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE): Implements IT programs and special projects and supports air defense mission assurance. Reviews project plans and specifications to ensure adequate analysis and justification of requirements, realistic cost estimates, scheduling, and consideration of all associated constraints and restraints. Provides guidance on capabilities, limitations, and peculiarities of the solutions under consideration. Keeps abreast of emerging technologies and develops plans, designs, and specifications for various types of communications and computer systems projects considering facility and infrastructure of the organization. Provides IT expertise in estimating the installation, modification, maintenance, operation, and support of both existing and new IT systems. Recommends solutions to resolve difficult and controversial issues arising from unusual IT and mission assurance requirements. Works with customers to assess and help refine mission requirements in terms of capability gaps. Performs analysis of capability gaps and evaluates various equipment for feasibility and compatibility. Prepares plans, drawings, manuals, and technical evaluations/specifications. Resolves unusual emergency problems, researches trends and patterns to deviate from traditional methods, and to implement new or improved communication methods and procedures. Creates and maintains local Configuration Management plan along with associated documents. Applies current directives for operating networks, executing missions, and controlling cyberspace operations activities. Performs duties to develop and enhance cyberspace capabilities to defend IT and special mission systems from cyber-attack. Conducts DCO using established tactics, techniques, and procedures to achieve Service, Combatant Command and national objectives. DCO includes passive and active cyberspace defense operations to preserve the ability to utilize friendly cyberspace capabilities and protect data, networks, net-centric capabilities, IT and special mission systems. Assists in IT and special mission system DCO risk and vulnerability assessments; ensures IT and special mission system DCO policies fully support all legal and regulatory requirements and ensures DCO policies are applied in new and existing IT resources. Assists in identifying DCO weaknesses and provides recommendations for improvement. Monitors IT and special mission system DCO policy compliance and provides recommendations for effective implementation of IT security controls. Responsible for IT DCO oversight during all phases of the IT life cycles, which include but not limited to installation, maintenance, updating…etc. Assesses policy needs and reviews, revises, and develops policies to govern IT activities and presents recommendations to higher-level management. Analyzes IT system development as it relates to the organization and ensures policy and guidance are available for its use, that necessary controls are in place, and systems operate as intended and provide all necessary capabilities. Independently plans the methods to portray and prepares engineering drawings involving original and complex designs. Works from engineers' sketches, marked up prints, and verbal instructions. Translates ideas, rough sketches, specifications, and calculations of engineers, architects, and designers into complete and accurate working drawings for use in structure and system maintenance, repair, or new construction. Performs material estimates/takeoffs from construction drawings. Makes arithmetic computations by using standard formulas for dimensions, scale, and area. Prepares drawings for major contractual projects utilizing computer design software. Uses software and associated equipment to prepare sets or groups of drawings for new construction, modification, alteration, or renovation of base facilities. Monitors the performance of computer design system(s) to ensure it is operating properly and makes adjustments to resolve minor software problems. Prepares drawings for visual presentation programs using computer programs. Mounts drawings and sets up appropriate presentation tools. Based upon findings, recommends IT funding priority adjustments to meet new business needs. Conducts periodic analysis of projects and their funding for consistency with overall IT architecture and infrastructure and how they contribute to meeting business requirements. Makes definitive budget recommendations to higher-level management to enable the organization to improve its IT status. Assists management and senior IT specialists in developing SOW and PWS (statements of work/performance work specifications) for contracts involving IT systems or service. Reviews completed solicitation packages and serves as advisor to the Contracting Office on technical aspects of contracts. Other duties as assigned.

Qualification

GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Must have IT-related experience demonstrating each of the four competencies listed below. Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail. Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services. Oral Communication - Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately. Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must have at least 36 months experience or 1-year specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade, that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position and is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Such experience is typically gained in the IT field or through the performance of work where the primary concern is IT. Experience includes, education, or training that approaches techniques and requirements appropriate to an assigned computer applications area or computer specialty area in an organization. Experience planning the sequence of actions necessary to accomplish the assignment where this entailed coordination with others outside the organizational unit and development of project controls. Experience that required adaptations of guidelines or precedents to meet the needs of the assignment. Experience preparing documentation on cost/benefit studies where is involved summarizing the material and organizing it in a logical fashion.

Education

Education Requirements:None If you are using Education to qualify for this position, you must provide transcripts or other documentation to support your Educational claims. To receive credit for Education, you must provide documentation of proof that you meet the Education requirements for this position. Substitution of Education for Specialized Experience:Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree-OR-3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degreeDegree in computer science, engineering, information science, information systems management, mathematics, operations research, statistics, or technology management or degree that provided a minimum of 24 semester hours in one or more of the fields identified above and required the development or adaptation of applications, systems or networks.

Evaluations

Once the announcement has closed, your resume and supporting documentation will be used to determine if you meet the qualifications listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your resume and supporting documentation will be compared to your responses on the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience. If you rate yourself higher than is supported by your application package, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from consideration for this position. You may also be excluded from consideration if you indicate that you are unwilling to accept the lower grade and a determination is made that you are not qualified at the higher grade. If you are found to be among the top qualified candidates, you will be referred to the selecting official for employment consideration. Verbiage displayed on your resume or application must contain your own words. You may refer to position descriptions, as well as the general and specialized experience located within the vacancy announcement, to assist with describing work experiences; however, resumes or applications received in verbatim will not be considered. In your resume you will need to address the general and specialized experience listed above. Please use as much detail as needed, giving dates (months and years) of the experience, position title and how the experience was gained. This information is needed to determine if you are qualified for the position. Your qualifications will be evaluated on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics). NOTE: You do not have to respond to the KSA's separately but your resume should contain sufficient information to demonstrate possession of the KSA's. Knowledge of a wide range of IT principles, concepts, methods, advancements, policies, design, development, testing and applications, both hardware and software sufficient to assess the organization's IT business requirements. Knowledge of configuration management methods and techniques for integrating information system components sufficient to install and maintain software and hardware, optimize functionality of systems, and diagnose and recover failed systems. Knowledge of the DoD and Air Force configuration management principles, documents and tactics, techniques and procedures. Knowledge of the organization's policy and planning formulation process along with its missions, goals, and objectives to prepare IT polices and plans. Knowledge of management requirements sufficient to render recommendations on development of new software versus purchase of off-the-shelf programs. Knowledge of systems architecture, integration techniques, and testing methods sufficient to conduct feasibility studies. Ability to develop IT policies and plans and to assess impact of changed policy on the organization's current IT plans and programs. Ability to perform feasibility studies, perform cost analysis review, develop investment plans, and recommend a best course of action along with suitable alternatives. Knowledge of a full range of drafting techniques to produce engineering drawings involving original, novel, and/or complex designs. Knowledge of organizational acquisition requirements, budgetary techniques, and financial status sufficient to identify needs and recommend adjustment of IT funding priorities.