IT Specialist (SYSADMIN /INFOSEC)

Telework Eligible

Yes

Major Duties

• Serves as technical advisor for on-premises and cloud virtualization initiatives, overseeing scope, technical review, design, testing, implementation, and quality assurance to ensure timely delivery within budget.
• Analyzes technical specifications and resource requirements, handles project tasks delegated to team members and contractors, and enforces IT change management processes and Agency system development life cycle standards.
• Conducts user group and vendor meetings to determine storage allocation needs, monitors hardware and software maintenance contracts, and maintains up-to-date system operating manuals and life cycle documentation.
• Installs, configures, and administers VMware ESX, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Oracle OCI, and Google Cloud environments, ensuring enterprise virtual infrastructure is tuned, optimized, and maintained.
• Diagnoses and recovers failed systems, evaluates new diagnostic tools, conducts feasibility studies for engineering changes, and resolves complex hardware and software integration issues across server systems.
• Reviews storage area networks, infrastructure environments, and operational procedures to improve efficiency, and provides technical training on hardware, COTS tools, and third-party software packages to Agency staff.
• Implements and enforces information security and information assurance policies, ensuring product configurations and virtual environments meet DoW and Agency security requirements.
• Performs security validation activities, ensures PKI compliance, and enforces strict adherence to Personally Identifiable Information (PII) policies and procedures
• Maintains COOP and configuration management documentation, tests server and storage continuity, participates in disaster recovery exercises, and prepares after-action reports to integrate COOP requirements.

Qualification Summary

To qualify for a IT Specialist (SYSADMIN /INFOSEC), your resume and supporting documentation must support: A. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position. To qualify at the GS-12 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including time-in-grade (General Schedule (GS) positions only), time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement. Creditable specialized experience includes: Diagnosing and resolving complex system integration, network, and storage performance issues implementing information assurance and cybersecurity controls to ensure data integrity and system availability administering, configuring, and optimizing enterprise-level virtualized and cloud environments (such as VMware ESX, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Oracle OCI, or Google Cloud) participating as a technical lead or advisor on IT infrastructure projects, managing system change processes, and preparing technical specifications or operating procedures. B. Education: Applicants may not qualify for this position based on education in lieu of specialized experience 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.