SUPERVISORY IT SPECIALIST (INFOSEC/NETWORK)

Military Grades: O-1 TO O-4 SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Optimal applicants have a CYBERCOM work role qualification or NSA equivalent. Must be a validated graduate of the Air Force Cyberspace Weapons Instructor Course. Must have at least 36 months of specialized experiences as a technical expert in cyberspace weapons and tactics techniques and procedures (TTPs) that ensured the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of cyber Series mission systems, networks and data through the enhancement of Department of Defense(DoD) information systems security programs, policies, procedures and tools. Experiences included comprehensive evaluations of DOD cyber terrain with focus on network security. Competent in conducting assessments of security postures and processes that identifiedareas of vulnerability or inadequate security for mitigation and improvement. Experiences may have included the discovery of advanced persistent threats in DOD cyber systems, replicated adversary cyber threat tactics and protection of priority DOD missions for a specified duration. Experienced as a Weapons and Tactics Officer for Cyber Protection Teams or Industrial Control Systems Team missions on DoD information systems. Skilled competency with a demonstrated mastery knowledge level of Information Technology (IT) security methodology used to protect assigned cyber key terrain by selecting appropriate TTPs that were used by various teams. Experienced and skilled in establishing required TTPs used to secure computer systems and to protect them from cyber exploitation. Experienced in collaborating with the Cyber Tactics community that developed and facilitated tactical improvements and advanced the operational capability of weapon system, the unit, and the broader COS community. Competent in conducting extensive research of tools used to attack or gain unauthorized access to information networks. Experiences included analyzing and testing specific tools on training ranges to determine these tools’ levels of effectiveness, stability, and scope. Experienced in delivering assessed changes to higher-level policies, standards, directives or operations manuals that provided impacts on unit plans, policies, programs or operations. Must have experiences in the Cyberspace Weapon System’s regulations, procedures, policies, and guidelines. Skilled in presenting formal and informal briefing and written reports in regard to the Cyberspace program’s greater cyber tactics community to provide training to the unit on emerging weapon system capabilities and TTPs. Skilled competencies in evaluating and assessing mission networked systems’ vulnerabilities that included application server hardware and operating system software; along with mastery of information systems security protocols and peripheral network equipment such as, routers, bridges, switches, attached cabling system, network interface cards, modems, multi-plexers, and concentrators. Skilled in conducting evaluations that ensured compliance with applicable standards. Competent in managing system backups that provided effective and expedient database restoration for the respective network equipment to include customer network boundary protection devices. Experienced in identifying advanced persistent threats in DOD Cyber systems and protecting DOD priority missions for specified durations. Skilled in discovering, detecting, and characterizing advanced adversarial tradecraft. Experiences included work in monitoring target systems and networks for unusual activities that resulted in the identification and removal of adversary activities that evaded routine security measures on assigned cyber terrain. Competent in replicating tactics, techniques, and procedures of specific cyber threats used to evaluate cyber defenses and DOD defensive cyber operations. Quality of Experience – Length of time is not of itself qualifying. Candidates’ experience should be evaluated on the basis of duties performed rather than strictly on the rank of the individual; however, established compatibility criteria/assignments must be followed. The applicant’s record of experience and/or training must show possession of the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to fully perform the duties of the position.
THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION. This National Guard position is for a SUPERVISORY IT SPECIALIST (INFOSEC/NETWORK), Position Description Number NGD2330000 and is part of the MD 175th ANG, National Guard.