Supervisory Information Technology Specialist - Washington, United States - Judicial Branch

Description

Summary

This position is located in the Department of Technology Services, Information Technology Security Office, Security Operations Division.

Duties

The incumbent is a recognized cyber security expert with a proven record of successfully managing tier 3 level support to defensive cyber operations in a 24/7 environment. Must have a proven record of successfully leading digital forensics threat hunting at a national level, and extensive experience managing, developing, and mentoring federal and contract personnel conducting defensive cyber operations.

Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Providing actionable intelligence to leadership on threats against U.S. Court members, systems, and networks in support of informed, strategic incident response.
2. Conducting in-depth root cause analysis on key security incidents to ascertain timeline and threat.
3. Performing data analysis germane to the discovery of potentially malicious or statistically unusual patterns.
4. Safeguarding security, confidentiality, and integrity of US court information systems by detecting vulnerabilities and profiling / discovering threats.
5. Identifying and removing Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) within judiciary network by coordinative key threat-hunting operations using strategic adversary tactics and techniques.
6. Utilizing adversarial techniques to avoid detection, pivot, extract data, and examine security measures in emulation of malicious actors.
7. Developing and implementing proactive strategies to defend the judiciary from emerging and existing threats and address capability gaps in SOC's incident response process.
8. Developing technical articles and host webinars supporting Judiciary security awareness.
9. Maintaining and enhancing the security roadmap used to provide technical, personnel and procedural growth.
10. Interfacing with clients and management to understand their security needs and overseeing the development and implementation of procedures to accommodate them.
11. Planning, scheduling, assigning, and directing staff on technical and operational projects and during regular departmental activities as well as participating in federal recruitment and contract management activities.
12. Conducting liaison activities across functional teams.
13. Providing senior technical guidance to staff.
14. Providing timely, clear, technically accurate notification to impacted judiciary stakeholders of the risk potential associated with IT security events and options for remediation.
15. Interfacing with clients and management to understand their security needs and overseeing the development and implementation of procedures to accommodate them.
16. Providing senior technical guidance to staff.
17. Performing the tasks and meet the skills, knowledge and abilities as described in NIST Special Publication National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Cybersecurity Workforce Framework for the roles of Threat/Warning Analyst (AN-TWA-001), Cyber Defense Forensics Analyst (IN-FOR-002), Research & Development Specialist (SP-TRD-001), and Executive Cyber Leadership (OV-EXL-001).