IT Specialist - Arlington, United States - US Defense Information Systems Agency

Description

Duties

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• Develops and implements systems diagnostic and maintenance tools to ensure the availability and functionality of systems required.
• Develops standards and criteria for assessing server performance, availability, and capacity or configuration problems.
• Develops procedures for responding to new threats to systems to ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability.
• Checks key files for problems and reviews operations to ensure only valid processes are running.
• Reallocates resources as they become available, optimizes systems performance and recommends additional components to improve overall performance.
• Evaluates and recommends selection of new systems diagnostic tools.
• Manages the installation of software and hardware, systems fixes, updates and enhancements and installs, configures and tests software on workstations.

Requirements

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Conditions of Employment

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• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Males born after must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.
• This national security position, which may require access to classified information, requires a favorable suitability review and security clearance as a condition of employment. Failure to maintain security eligibility may result in termination.
• Top Secret/CS clearance required.
• This is a Drug Testing designated position.
• This is a Mission Essential designated position.

Qualifications

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• In order to qualify for this position, you must meet the requirements described below.

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Basic Requirements

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Applicants must demonstrate on their resume that they have IT-related experience demonstrating each of the four competencies.- Attention to Detail

• Customer Service
• Oral Communication
• Problem Solving

Qualifying Experience

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To qualify at the GG-12, your resume must describe at least one year of experience that demonstrates the competencies necessary for immediate success in the position.

Experience refers to any paid or unpaid experience, including volunteer work and Military service, that would be considered equivalent to work normally performed at the next lower grade level in the federal service.

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For this position, qualifying experience is defined as: Experience installing, managing, testing, troubleshooting, documenting, and maintaining servers running Unix and Red Hat Linux in both physical and virtual operating environments and project management principles sufficient to maintain, plan and coordinate the installation of new products or equipment.

Education

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There is no substitution of education for the
qualifying experienceat the GG-12 grade level.

Additional information

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This position is in the Excepted Service and does NOT convey eligibility to be converted to the Competitive Service. It is being recruited under 10 U.S.C. 1599f into the Cyber Excepted Service (CES) personnel system.

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If you are a current Federal Career/Career-Conditional employee, you will be placed on an Excepted appointment.

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This appointment does not confer eligibility to be non-competitively converted to an appointment in the competitive service.

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• A three year trial period may be required if you have not previously completed a trial or probationary period in the excepted or competitive service.
• Telework availability will be based upon the mission requirements and supervisory determination
• Individuals tentatively selected for drug testing designated positions at the Defense Information Systems Agency will be required to submit to urinalysis for illegal drugs prior to appointment or placement.
• We may use this announcement to fill additional vacancies within 90 days of the closing date.
• Recruitment, relocation, or retention incentives MAY be authorized.
• This position has been designated as "Mission Essential." Incumbent will be required to report to work or relocate to a new duty location, within the United States, in times of local/national emergency.
• Shift work required

Shift hours will be:
1st shift (XXXX - XXXX), 2nd shift (XXXX - XXXX) and 3rd shift (XXXX - XXXX).

• The Department of Defense (DoD) policy on employment of annuitants issued March 18, 2004 will be used in determining eligibility of annuitants. It applies to former Federal civilian employees receiving a retirement annuity from the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund that are hired within the DoD on or after November 24, 2003. The policy also applies to annuitants (appointed in DoD on/or after November 24, 2003) who move from one position to another within DoD through voluntary reassignment, promotion, change to lower grade or transfer between military departments. Please see this policy here.
• PPP Application Based Preference Eligibles (Military Reserve and National Guard technicians, Military Reserve and National Guard technicians receiving disability retirement, and Retained Grade employees) will receive priority consideration at the full performance level only.
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