SUPERVISORY INTERDISCIPLINARY

U.S. Army Cyber Command (DOA); Fort Huachuca (AZ); On-site; USD 133,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Army Cyber Command (DOA) at Fort Huachuca, AZ is seeking a senior engineering leader in the Cyber Excepted Service. The position is permanent, full-time and located at Fort Huachuca. A Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility is required.

You will oversee engineering guidance, system integration, testing, and rapid restoration of critical networks and systems, directing a team of engineers and contractors. This role includes travel and exposure to high-security environments.

Qualifications

• Top Secret (Tier 5) security clearance required.
• Three year trial/probationary period may be required.
• Travel may be up to 25% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Supervises 20-40 technical civilian, military, and contractor personnel, managing workloads, performance, and personnel actions.
• Develops and promulgates engineering guidance and technical direction in support of C4IT system integration, development, testing, security, and sustainment.
• Directs rapid service restoration for critical network/system outages, implementing immediate workarounds and permanent engineered fixes.
• Leads strategic dispute resolution and makes authoritative engineering decisions regarding legacy integration and network modernization.

Job description

About the Position

This position is a DOD Cyber Excepted Service (CES) personnel system position in the Excepted Service under 10 USC 1599f. Employees occupying CES positions are in the Excepted Service and must adhere to U.S. Code, Title 10, as well as Department of Defense Instruction 1400.25. This position is located at the Fort Huachuca, AZ.

Location

Fort Huachuca, AZ (1 vacancy)

Telework / Remote Eligibility

Telework eligible: Yes – as determined by the agency policy.

Remote job: No

Relocation Expenses Reimbursed

Yes—You may qualify for reimbursement of relocation expenses in accordance with agency policy.

Salary

$133,233 – $182,092 per year

Pay Scale & Grade

GG 14

Promotion Potential

None

Work Schedule

Full-time

Travel Required

25% or less – You may be expected to travel for this position.

Appointment Type

Permanent

Occupations and Job Series

• 0854 Computer Engineering
• 0855 Electronics Engineering
• 1550 Computer Science

Supervisory Status

Yes

Federal Service Type

This job is in the Excepted Service

Represented by a Union

No

Drug Test

Yes

Security Clearance

Sensitive Compartmented Information

Position Sensitivity and Risk

Special-Sensitive (SS)/High Risk

Jobs require a background check and some require a security clearance. The type depends on the job.

Background check type: National security

Financial Disclosure Required

Yes

Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests.

Announcement Number

DAKB-27-13105532-CES

Control Number

890936000

Eligibility

Internal to an agency – current federal employees of the hiring agency that posted the job announcement.

Clarification from the agency: This position is only open to current permanent employees in the ARCYBER enterprise. Block 47 of the SF-50 must be AR2A.

Duties

• Supervises 20-40 technical civilian, military, and contractor personnel, managing workloads, performance, and personnel actions.
• Develops and promulgates engineering guidance and technical direction in support of assigned C4IT system integration, development, testing, security, and sustainment.
• Evaluates contractor performance and quality control, resolving technical execution issues through the COR.
• Directs rapid service restoration for critical network/System outages, implementing immediate workarounds and permanent engineered fixes.
• Leads strategic dispute resolution and makes authoritative engineering decisions regarding legacy integration and network modernization.
• Prepares final technical reports and briefings encompassing pertinent analysis, conclusions, and recommendations for worldwide Army information systems and networks.

Conditions of Employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Three year trial/probationary period may be required.
• Temporary Duty (TDY) travel may be required up to 25% of the time.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a TOP SECRET security clearance with eligibility for access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI).
• Must successfully pass urinalysis screening for illegal drug use prior to appointment and periodically thereafter, in accordance with Change 3 to AR 600-85, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Program.
• This position is considered “Mission Essential.” In the event of severe weather conditions or other such emergency type situations (natural or man-made disaster) the incumbent is required to report to work or remain at work as scheduled.
• Incumbent is required to submit a Financial Disclosure Statement, OGE-450, (5CFR Part 2634, Subpart I USOGE, 6/08). Executive Branch Personnel Confidential Financial Disclosure Report upon entering the position and annually.
• In support of contingency operations, incumbent may be required to work overtime and shift work on short notice to include nights, holidays, and weekends.
• Incumbent must maintain Level III, Privileged Access to all required IT networks.

Qualifications

CYBER EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITIONS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE TWO-PAGE RESUME LIMIT. YOUR FULL RESUME WILL NEED TO BE UPLOADED TO YOUR USAJOBS PROFILE USING THE DOCUMENT TYPE ‘OTHER DOCUMENTS’.

THIS POSITION IS IN THE SUPERVISION/ MANAGEMENT WORK CATEGORY AT THE SENIOR WORK LEVEL WITHIN THE CES OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE.

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. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

• Current Civilian Employees of the Organization Applying to Cyber Excepted Service (CES) Positions

Army CES positions apply Veteran’s Preference to preference eligible candidates, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 3005, “CES Employment and Placement”. If you are a veteran claiming veterans’ preference, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., you must submit documents verifying your eligibility with your application package.

In order to qualify, you must meet the education/experience requirements described 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Basic Requirement for Electronics Engineer GG-855/Computer Engineer GG-854:

A. Degree: Bachelor’s degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor’s degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and 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.

2. 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, or Puerto Rico.

3. 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.

4. 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 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.

In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:

a. Superior academic achievement at the baccalaureate level in an engineering program is qualifying for GS‑7.

b. A combination of superior academic achievement and 1 year of appropriate professional experience is qualifying at GS‑9.

c. Applicants with an engineering bachelor’s degree who have appropriate experience as a technician equivalent to grade GS‑5 or higher may have such experience credited for grade GS‑7 only on a month-for-month basis up to a maximum of 12 months.

d. Successful completion of a 5-year program of study of at least 160 semester hours leading to a bachelor’s degree in engineering is qualifying at GS‑7. Completion of such a program and 1 year of appropriate professional experience is qualifying at grade GS‑9.

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe one year of specialized experience that includes leading engineering services for total information systems engineering in the design, implementation, operation, integration, testing, securing, and sustainment of IT (Information Technology) systems; directing engineering and IT professionals in the modernization, integration, and standardization of IT systems; providing expert technical advice and planning for the execution of IT initiatives; promotes sound position management principles and programs pertaining to personnel, manpower, budget, and technology; manages resources to resolve technical problems associated with operational information technologies, systems and networks.

Additional education and/or experience requirements are continued in the “Education” section below.

Education

Basic Requirement for Computer Scientist GG-1550:

Degree: Bachelor’s degree (or higher degree) in computer science or bachelor’s degree (or higher 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.

In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe one year of specialized experience that includes total information systems engineering in the design, implementation, operation, integration, testing, securing, and sustainment of IT systems and networks; Developing technical analyses of preliminary and detailed systems design inclusive of overall system/network architecture; Reviews and analyzes user operational requirements for technical definition and evaluates performance/cost trade-off in the determination of system design; Plans operational/change testing of systems and equipment installed to insure conformance with user requirements.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications

Additional Information

• If you are a current federal career/career-conditional employee, you will be placed on an excepted appointment.
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
• This position requires a 3 year probationary period during which the agency evaluates your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In making this determination, the agency may consider your performance and conduct; agency needs and interests; whether your continued employment supports organizational or Government goals; and whether it promotes the efficiency of the Federal service. Continued employment requires written certification that it advances the public interest.
• Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret (Tier 5) security clearance.
• This position requires you to submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE-450) upon entry, and annually thereafter.
• Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
• If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet.
• This is a Cyberspace Effects Career Program position aligned under the Operational Support Career Management Directorate.
• Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
• Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS) allowances may be authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations and an agency determination that a PCS move is in the Government Interest.
• A Relocation incentive may be authorized.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Benefits

A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Learn more about federal benefits.

Review our benefits. Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.

Required Documents

WARNING: DO NOT INCLUDE CLASSIFIED INFORMATION IN YOUR APPLICATION PACKET! Application packages that contain Classified information WILL NOT receive consideration for this position. Should you submit a resume or any other document as part of your application package and it is confirmed that any of the information is Classified, in addition to being found ineligible for consideration for this position, your Security Office will be notified to determine if any further action is warranted.

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/Merit Promotion Announcements.

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:

• Cyber Excepted Service positions are not subject to the two-page resume limit. Your full resume will need to be uploaded to your USAJOBS profile using the document type ‘Other Documents’.
• Your resume may be submitted in any format and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement.
• 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:

• Cover Letter, optional
• 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 documents 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.

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 select this position.