- Position Title
- IT SPECIALIST (INFOSEC) (TITLE 32)
- Agency
- Air National Guard Units
- Announcement Number
- IL-12069725-AF-23-249 Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Friday, August 4, 2023 to Saturday, August 3, 2024
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Eligibilities
1.
US Citizens. Are you a US Citizen?
2.
Are you a current National Guard member within the state for which this position is being advertised?
3.
Are you a current Permanent full-time Dual Status National Guard Technician within the state for which this position is being advertised?
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF 50) reflecting your Permanent full-time status with the state National Guard.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF 50) reflecting your Permanent full-time status with the state National Guard.
4.
Are you a current Temporary Indefinite full-time Dual Status National Guard Technician within the state for which this position is being advertised?
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF 50) reflecting your Indefinite full-time status with the state National Guard.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF 50) reflecting your Indefinite full-time status with the state National Guard.
Preferences
1.
Select the lowest grade you are willing to accept for this position.
2.
Would you accept a temporary appointment?
Conditions of Employment
This position has requirements which must be met prior to employment, and conditions for continued employment. Your answers to the questions in this section will indicate your understanding of, or possession of, these requirements and conditions.
1.
I have a valid, current state driver's license or I am able and willing to obtain and maintain a valid state driver's license.
2.
This position requires membership in the IL Air National Guard (IL ANG). If you are not willing or are ineligible to join the IL ANG, please do not apply to this announcement. If selected, you MUST be or become a member of the Selected IL ANG.
Do you possess an IL ANG membership, or are you willing to obtain, and maintain a membership in the IL ANG?
Do you possess an IL ANG membership, or are you willing to obtain, and maintain a membership in the IL ANG?
3.
Please type your current RANK, AFSC/MOS, and UNIT in the space provided below.
If you are a member of another branch of service, please include your branch, rank and military specialty.
Prior service members should include their last rank held and military specialty.
Civilians should type "N/A".
(limit 20 characters)
If you are a member of another branch of service, please include your branch, rank and military specialty.
Prior service members should include their last rank held and military specialty.
Civilians should type "N/A".
(limit 20 characters)
Assessment 1
Respond to all questions. For each, choose the response that best describes your experience and/or training. Please note that your answers will be verified against the information you provide in your resume or application.
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
1.
General Experience: Do you 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?
2.
Specialized Experience: Do you possess specialized experience for the GS-09 Level, which includes at least 24 months experience, education, or training in analysis of the interrelationship of pertinent components of the system; experience planning the sequence of actions necessary to accomplish the assignment; experience scheduling the sequence of programs to be processed by computers where alternatives had to be weighed with a view to production efficiency?
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Specialized Experience: Do you possess specialized experience for the GS-11 Level, which includes 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?
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
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Apply Information Technology (IT) security principles, methods, and security products to protect and maintain the availability, integrity, confidentiality, and accountability of information system resources and information processed throughout the system's life cycle.
5.
Initialize the Electronic Key Management System, perform system backups, determine operator access, and control functions (privilege management), reload and configure the operating system's parameters.
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Continuously identify and analyze threats and vulnerabilities to the information systems to maintain an appropriate level of protection.
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Evaluate, assess, or locally test and approve all hardware, software, and firmware products that provide security features prior to use on any accredited information system or network.
8.
Execute computer security plans and enforce mandatory access control techniques such as trusted routers, bastion hosts, gateways, firewalls, or other methods of information systems protection.
9.
Utilize current and future multi-level security products collectively to provide data integrity, confidentiality, authentication, non-repudiation, and access control of the LAN.
10.
Implement methods to prevent or minimize direct access, electronic or other forms of eavesdropping, interpreting electro-mechanical emanations, electronic intercept, telemetry interpretation, and other techniques designed to gain unauthorized access to IT information, equipment, or processes.
11.
Evaluate unusual circumstances to recognize and define potential vulnerabilities and select and oversee the installation of physical and technical security barriers to prevent others from improperly obtaining such information.
12.
Formulate and develop communications security criteria and requirements for inclusion in mobility, contingency, and exercise plans.
For each technical area below, select the response that most accurately describes your current level of experience and demonstrated capability.
13.
Maintain accountability for sensitive cryptographic materials and related COMSEC information.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
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Investigate COMSEC security incidents to determine the possibility of compromise to COMSEC materials and ensure documentation and reporting to appropriate channels.
15.
Perform destruction, receiving, issuing transferring and inspecting COMSEC material within the most stringent timelines.
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Develop, implement, and monitor security systems for the protection of controlled cryptographic cards, documents, ciphers, devices, communications centers, and equipment.
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Your responses in this Assessment Questionnaire are subject to evaluation and verification. Later steps in the selection process are specifically designed to verify your responses. Deliberate attempts to falsify information will be grounds for disqualifying you or for dismissing you from employment following acceptance. Please take this opportunity to review your responses to ensure their accuracy. If you fail to answer this question, you will be disqualified from consideration for this position. I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, all of the information included in this questionnaire is true, correct, and provided in good faith. I understand that if I make an intentional false statement, or commit deception or fraud in this application and its supporting materials, or in any document or interview associated with the examination process, I may be fined or imprisoned (18 U.S.C. 1001); my eligibilities may be canceled, I may be denied an appointment, or I may be removed and debarred from Federal service (5 C.F.R. part 731). I understand that any information I give may be investigated. I understand that responding "No" to this item will result in my not being considered for this position.