IT Specialist (Network)

Duties
As an IT Specialist (Network), GS-2210-11, you will:

Plan, organize, and direct the activities of the organization (Joint Incident Support Communications Capability (JISCC)), ensuring that the advice and assistance provided complies with legal and regulatory requirements and meets customer needs.

Ensure the JISCC and other nonstandard communications used by the Wyoming Military Department for support to civil authorities are operational and accounted for.

Work in an office setting and requires deploying with the JISCC on short notice (2 hours) day or night in all weather conditions and operation in a field environment for extended periods of time.

Responsible for digital communications services planning, resource, policy, and standards development for the entire enterprise infrastructure.

Coordinate with the C4 work centers, local telephone companies, long distance service providers and other vendors as required.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:
Must possess experience, education or training that has provided a basic knowledge of data processing functions and general management principles that enabled the applicant to understand the stages required to automate a work process. Experience may have been gained in work such as computer operator or assistant, computer sales representative, program analyst, or other positions that required the use or adaptation of computer programs and systems.

Specialized Experience:
Must possess at least 36 months experience, 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.

Note: Minimum Requirements and Specialized Experience will be used to determine qualifications for the announced position. Applicants must provide from (MM/YY - MM/YY) dates with description of your specialized experience.

Military Requirements: Selected candidates will be required to be in a compatible military grade and assignment prior to the effective date of placement.

Compatible Military Assignments:
Enlisted: 25
Warrant: 254A, 255A, 255N, 255S

Driver's License:
Must possess a valid state's driver's license for the state in which the applicant lives or is principally employed.

Information Assurance Certification Requirements:
Reference: DoD 8570.01-M, Information Assurance (IA) Workforce Improvement Program, Para C3.2.3. IA Technical (IAT) Category Training Requirements

• Within 6 months of assignment of IA duties all military and government civilian IAT personnel must achieve IA Baseline Certification unless a waiver is granted.
• An individual needs to obtain only one of the "approved certifications" for IAT Level II to meet the minimum requirement. (Para: AP3.2.4.)
  • SSCP = System Security Certified Practitioner
  • CCNA-Security = Cisco Certified Network Associate-Security
  • GSEC = Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) GIAC Security Essentials Certification
  • Security+ CE
• Include a copy of certification if already completed with application.
• New hires' qualification periods begin the date they start in the position (i.e., they must obtain the appropriate certification within 6 months of being assigned IA functions).
• Personnel in technical category positions must be issued and retain an appointing letter to their IA duties including a statement of responsibilities for the system. A completed copy will be maintained in the individual's personnel record.
• Personnel in technical category positions must maintain certifications, as required by the certifying provider, to retain privileged system access.
• Personnel who are not appropriately qualified within 6 months of assignment to a position or who fail to maintain their certification status shall not be permitted privileged access and may lose their position of assignment if employee fails to attain or return to certified status.

Education

Substitution of Education for Specialized Experience:
At the GS-11 level, a Ph.D. or equivalent, or 3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree.

Undergraduate or Graduate Education: Degree 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.

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.