* Duties Help ## Duties ### Summary Come work for the USPTO, we have been ranked as one of the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government®! The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has been serving the economic interests of America for more than 200 years. We are responsible for granting US intellectual property rights for patents and trademarks. The USPTO is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, and has over 12,000 employees. For more information about the USPTO, please visit the USPTO Careers Website. Learn more about this agency ### Responsibilities The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is the principal advisor to the Under Secretary and Director on the application of information technology (IT) to support and improve the Agency’s business processes. The Office of Organizational Policy and Governance (OPG) provides the management and oversight of enterprise Information Technology (IT) strategies, guidance, policies, and agency-wide cybersecurity. This position fall under the Cybersecurity Division who is responsible for ensuring that all computer and information systems and technology are secured against compromising attacks. This position serves as a Supervisory Information Technology Specialist in the CIO Cybersecurity Division and is responsible for performing the following duties: • Researching, interpreting, analyzing, and applying guidelines, policies, and regulations to guide the integration of security policy requirements and principles into the enterprise model for system development. • Serving as a security liaison between the USPTO and other government agencies, industry groups, and technology user groups for the purposes of obtaining information, developing security programs, policies, and procedures. • Defining core security service solutions upon which the enterprise security architecture is dependent and working closely with OCIO and other IT personnel to ensure the necessary technologies are configured and deployed to support the target architecture. • Supervising a staff responsible for a wide variety of duties connected with the design and implementation of new security programs designed to anticipate, assess, and minimize system vulnerability, e.g., Intrusion Prevention, Forensics, Computer Incident Response, Security Device management, and access authentication programs. • Exercising supervisory personnel management responsibilities, advising and providing counsel to employees regarding policies, procedures, directives, selecting or recommending selection of candidates for vacancies, promotions, details, and reassignments in consideration of skills and qualifications, mission requirements, and EEO and diversity objectives. ### Travel Required Not required ##### Supervisory status Yes ##### Promotion Potential 15 • #### Job family (Series) 2210 Information Technology Management #### Similar jobs • Analysts, Information Security • Computer Security Specialists • Computer User Support Specialists • Directors, Information Technology Systems • Directors, Management Information Systems • Information Security Analysts • Requirements Help ## Requirements ### Conditions of Employment • You must be a U.S. Citizen or National • You must meet the definition of specialized experience and IT competencies. • Required to pass a background investigation and fingerprint check. • Must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable (www.sss.gov) . ### Qualifications You must meet the following United States Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) qualification requirements for the advertised position. OPM's prescribed Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Information Technology Management Series can be found at Quals Standard. You must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of the job announcement. Specialized Experience: is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the federal service. Candidates for the GS-15 grade level must have at least 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 in the Federal service. In order to meet the specialized experience for this position you must meet all the below skill sets: Skill Set 1 - Experience supervising the design, implementation and management of security programs that are designed to minimize vulnerabilities in the systems. Skill Set 2 - Experience managing an agency-wide Cybersecurity compliance and continuous monitoring program in order to develop compliance policies, document security configuration standards, coordinating security assessment, and risk management through t
Supervisory Information Technology Specialist (INFOSEC)
Saturday, January 12, 2019
Computer & IT
* Duties Help ## Duties ### Summary Come work for the USPTO, we have been ranked as one of the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government®! The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has been serving the economic interests of America for more than 200 years. We are responsible for granting US intellectual property rights for patents and trademarks. The USPTO is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, and has over 12,000 employees. For more information about the USPTO, please visit the USPTO Careers Website. Learn more about this agency ### Responsibilities The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is the principal advisor to the Under Secretary and Director on the application of information technology (IT) to support and improve the Agency’s business processes. The Office of Organizational Policy and Governance (OPG) provides the management and oversight of enterprise Information Technology (IT) strategies, guidance, policies, and agency-wide cybersecurity. This position fall under the Cybersecurity Division who is responsible for ensuring that all computer and information systems and technology are secured against compromising attacks. This position serves as a Supervisory Information Technology Specialist in the CIO Cybersecurity Division and is responsible for performing the following duties: • Researching, interpreting, analyzing, and applying guidelines, policies, and regulations to guide the integration of security policy requirements and principles into the enterprise model for system development. • Serving as a security liaison between the USPTO and other government agencies, industry groups, and technology user groups for the purposes of obtaining information, developing security programs, policies, and procedures. • Defining core security service solutions upon which the enterprise security architecture is dependent and working closely with OCIO and other IT personnel to ensure the necessary technologies are configured and deployed to support the target architecture. • Supervising a staff responsible for a wide variety of duties connected with the design and implementation of new security programs designed to anticipate, assess, and minimize system vulnerability, e.g., Intrusion Prevention, Forensics, Computer Incident Response, Security Device management, and access authentication programs. • Exercising supervisory personnel management responsibilities, advising and providing counsel to employees regarding policies, procedures, directives, selecting or recommending selection of candidates for vacancies, promotions, details, and reassignments in consideration of skills and qualifications, mission requirements, and EEO and diversity objectives. ### Travel Required Not required ##### Supervisory status Yes ##### Promotion Potential 15 • #### Job family (Series) 2210 Information Technology Management #### Similar jobs • Analysts, Information Security • Computer Security Specialists • Computer User Support Specialists • Directors, Information Technology Systems • Directors, Management Information Systems • Information Security Analysts • Requirements Help ## Requirements ### Conditions of Employment • You must be a U.S. Citizen or National • You must meet the definition of specialized experience and IT competencies. • Required to pass a background investigation and fingerprint check. • Must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable (www.sss.gov) . ### Qualifications You must meet the following United States Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) qualification requirements for the advertised position. OPM's prescribed Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Information Technology Management Series can be found at Quals Standard. You must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of the job announcement. Specialized Experience: is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the federal service. Candidates for the GS-15 grade level must have at least 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 in the Federal service. In order to meet the specialized experience for this position you must meet all the below skill sets: Skill Set 1 - Experience supervising the design, implementation and management of security programs that are designed to minimize vulnerabilities in the systems. Skill Set 2 - Experience managing an agency-wide Cybersecurity compliance and continuous monitoring program in order to develop compliance policies, document security configuration standards, coordinating security assessment, and risk management through t