Cybersecurity Executives

Job Description

Company: Department of Homeland Security (Agency Wide)

Location: Fort Washington, US

Summary

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is recruiting professionals to support a range of executive roles within the United States Secret Service (USSS), Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), including Executive Director of Cyber, Infrastructure, Platforms, and Mission Delivery. All positions are in the DHS Cybersecurity Service.

Duties

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The Executives are responsible for implementing the programs necessary to align the United States Secret Service Information Technology (IT) personnel, resources, and assets. This includes all systems and infrastructure that support Department-wide missions and activities, required to lead a unified DHS effort to prevent and deter terrorist attacks.

As a Cybersecurity Executive in the DHS Cybersecurity Service, you will lead and oversee multifaceted aspects of the United States Secret Service mission, programs, and personnel. You will apply your technical executive leadership expertise to:

• Ensure day-to-day operational synchronicity within the agency to implement and manage programs necessary to align US Secret Service IT personnel, resources and assets or detect and evict adversaries from U.S. networks.
• Provide strategic oversight for developing, exercising, and coordinating execution of operational plans, including supporting the development of the OCIO Strategic Plan.
• Formulate programs, priorities, and policies supporting the OCIO’s objectives.
• Guide leaders and teams within and across US Secret Service to meet operational compliance requirements, steward agency finances, and effectively manage, reduce, and mitigate increasing cybersecurity risks.
• Develop and maintain incident response plans, ensuring rapid detection, containment, and mitigation of cyber incidents.
• Supervise and assign work to be accomplished by subordinates leading large growing teams in dynamic environments working to reduce the prevalence of vulnerabilities and exploitable conditions that are most likely to be used by malicious actors to achieve their goals. This includes planning and establishing work schedules, determining performance standards, and evaluating work performance, counseling employees on work and administrative matters, selecting candidates for vacancies, resolving complaints, effecting disciplinary actions, promoting employee development, and ensures that subordinates comply with laws, regulations, and DHS policies pertaining to ethics, security, travel, safety, procurement, fiscal management, and other areas, as appropriate.
• Advise senior USSS leaders with decision-making related to a variety of information technology priorities.
• Oversee the development, implementation, and management of policies, standards, and guidance in accordance with federal laws, regulations, and DHS Directives.
• Manage operational partnerships with Federal, State, local, territorial, tribal government partners, international, and industry stakeholders, integrating requisite operational capabilities, resources, and processes for meeting specific mission needs and expand USSS cybersecurity capabilities, technical products, and guidance.
• Serve as a Directorate representative in meetings with senior officials, local governments, and senior executives in the public and private sectors.
• Determine scope of change needed to maintain security authentication technology for appropriateness and compliance to allow for a secure and trusted computing environment.
• Ensure Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) compliance for the Office. Controls allocation of resources and budget formulation for the integration of security programs across disciplines.
• Lead the evaluation of the agency mission, goals, and plans to develop an IT architecture plan.
• Develop long-range plans identifying and evaluating new information technologies to improve productivity, reliability, and resource utilization for information systems, modifying organizational structure(s) accordingly to coincide and accommodate IT infrastructure support goals and objectives.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or national.
• You must be 18 years of age.
• Must be registered for the Selective Service (if you are a male).
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI security clearance.
• Must be able to submit to a drug test prior to your appointment and random drug testing while you occupy the position.
• Must be able to comply with ethics and standards of conduct requirements, including completing a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE278) upon entry, and annually thereafter.
• May be required to serve a 3 year probationary period.
• Submit a credit check after a conditional offer of employment has been accepted.
• May be subject to submit a Counterintelligence (CI) polygraph examination prior to your appointment.

Qualifications

These opportunities are in the Executive Track. DHS Cybersecurity Service employees start at career levels and salaries matching their experience and expertise.

Cybersecurity Executives generally have 15+ years of cybersecurity work experience and 5+ years of leadership experience and are either:

• Capable of serving as an executive-level cybersecurity manager who serves as a Component senior functional authorityor DHS-wide leaderand oversees multiple, highly visible Component or DHS cybersecurity programs; or
• Capable of serving as a seasoned cybersecurity executive who serves as a DHS-wide cybersecurity leader overseeing expansive, national cybersecurity programs, and multiple multi-level organizations as direct reports to presidential appointees.

DHS Cybersecurity Service employees start at career levels and salaries matching their experience and expertise. In recruiting for this opportunity, DHS may hire employees at higher or lower career levels and associated salaries. To learn more about DHS Cybersecurity Service career tracks and levels, visit our application portal.

Education

Degrees are not required for jobs in the DHS Cybersecurity Service, but DHS is interested in your level of education and the topics you studied. As you submit initial application information, you will be asked questions about your education.

Additional information

Salary: Listed salary ranges reflects typical starting salaries available to employees in most of the United States across applicable career levels. Within the provided range, average salaries vary for each career level.

Cybersecurity Executive: $176,000 – $238,200

In some geographic areas, average starting salaries will be higher because of a local cybersecurity labor market supplement (e.g., metro Washington, D.C. +10%).

Actual salaries of individual employees may be higher or lower than provided figures. For an overview of the salaries available in the DHS Cybersecurity Service, visit RESOURCES

Benefits: DHS Cybersecurity Service employees receive a range of federal employment benefits designed to support their professional and personal lives. To learn more about benefits, visit our application portal.

More information about the specific benefits available to you will be provided as you progress through the application process.

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.

Benefits

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A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.

Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.

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