Supervisory Information Technology Specialist

Summary

You will serve as the Supervisor, Service Element Lead for NASA-wide Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM) architecture services, infrastructure integration for business and mission information systems, and initiatives that require ICAM services. You will provide strategic ICAM engineering leadership, with oversight of contract deliverables for dedicated ICAM engineering support and ensure enhancements and new services align with the ICAM roadmap, risks, and budget.

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• Serve as the Chief of Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM) service element and collaborate with the Cyber Security and Policy Division, Information System Security Officers, Security Operations Center, and Agency/mission organizations.
• Lead the direction of the ICAM team on requested services and architecture enhancements, adhering to governance, collaborating on designs to integrate the Agency authentication and authorization infrastructure into NASA business and mission systems.
• Identify and follow governance to develop new security architecture standards, including for secure cloud service adoption, and ensure these standards/frameworks are aligned with business strategy. Work with key stakeholders to gain approval.
• Provide leadership to the ICAM application business architecture for engineering software and hardware solutions that will meet NASA, Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), and federal requirements.
• Maintain a keen understanding of industry trends, application and system security threats, and associated patterns and techniques used to mitigate associate threats across one or more enterprise systems.
• Coordinate with Workplace and Collaboration Services (WCS) leadership, to ensure service enhancements and new services align with ICAM roadmap, risks, and budget. Provide contractor oversight to include management of their deliverables.
• Provide high-level analytical expertise for complex assignments of enterprise-wide scope, including but not limited to, advice on project costs, design concepts, or design changes, including representation on requisite governance boards.
• Provide leadership to security architecture and design evaluations to determine the adequacy of security design and architecture proposed or provided. Ensure proposed capabilities translate into technical requirements.
• Perform a full range of supervisory duties which includes assigning and evaluating work; recommending personnel actions; taking disciplinary actions; and identifying training needs and developing employees.

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Conditions of employment

• Current Federal employees must meet qualifications, time in grade, and 90 days after competitive appointment requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
• Position subject to pre-employment background investigation or higher-level clearance. Investigation/Clearance may differ and be required based on the duty location/NASA Center requirements.
• Financial Disclosure, Drug Testing, and/or the Travel Requirements for this position may differ and be required based on the duty location/NASA Center requirements.
• Subject to completion of a one-year supervisory probationary period.
• You must meet qualifications, time in grade, and 90 days after competitive appointment requirements by the closing date of the announcement.

Qualifications

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.

To qualify for GS-15 , you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 level:

• Developing and communicating authoritative enterprise security architecture that addresses risk and aligns an organization's mission and business outcomes;
• Developing, implementing, and monitoring Zero Trust authentication and authorization architecture which leverages industry recognized risk management frameworks (e.g., NIST Cybersecurity Framework [800-53, 800-63, 800-116], ISO 31000, COBIT 5, Factor Analysis of Information Risk, or Threat Assessment and Remediation Analysis) to ensure required maturity of each deployed Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) solution;
• Partnering with mission/business partners to provide advice and guidance on authoritative enterprise security paradigms, including establishing a hybrid cloud security architecture, with Zero Trust capabilities across multiple platforms and tools such as, Microsoft O365 and Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft Active Directory, Public Key Infrastructure, CA Site minder, conditional access rules, or Microsoft Purview information protection.

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IF you are qualifying based on experience, you MUST also have IT-related experience demonstrating each of the four competencies listed below:

1. Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.

Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job.

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Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Additional information

Additional selections may be made for similar positions across NASA within the local commuting area(s) of the location(s) identified in this announcement. By applying, you agree to have your application shared with interested selecting official(s) within NASA. CTAP/ICTAP will be cleared for any additional selection from this announcement.

If you are a current federal employee, you must meet applicable time-in-grade requirements to be considered eligible for this position. To be eligible, you must have completed a minimum of 52 weeks in a position no more than 1 grade lower than the advertised position. (Please submit your SF-50 that shows Time-in-Grade eligibility and reflects your title, series, and grade. If your eligibility for both merit promotion and/or time-in-grade cannot be determined, your application will be rated ineligible.)

Note: Time-in-grade requirements also apply to applicants who have held a non-temporary, competitive service GS position in the past year.

If you have special priority selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP), you must:

- Indicate your eligibility when applying for a position. The questionnaire asks you to identify your ICTAP/CTAP eligibility.

- Be well qualified for this position to receive consideration. Candidates rated in the 'Best Qualified' category are considered well-qualified. Please see 'How You Will Be Evaluated' for more information.

- Submit proof that you meet the requirements for CTAP/ICTAP as indicated in 'Required Documents'

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Qualified NASA term employees who have term conversion eligibility (Term Appointments | NASA) under the NASA Flexibility Act of 2004 will be referred and considered equally with other NASA permanent employees under internal competitive placement procedures.

per Executive Order 14343, this position is not part of a bargaining unit.

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.

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