Summary
This position is in the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB), Information Technology Directorate. Purpose of this position is to ensure the best deployment, maintenance, and operation of hosted services and infrastructure components. This includes identifying requirements, vulnerabilities, and risks to support the agency's technical infrastructure. Analyzing requirements, evaluating solutions, planning projects, procuring resources, Implementing, testing, and deploying solutions.
Duties
As a, Information Technology Specialist (Sys Admin) you will be responsible for duties to include, but are not limited to: Identifies directory services, domain infrastructure services, and applications suitable for offsite hosting due to fiscal, business continuity, or disaster recovery reasons. System administration processes, techniques, and methodology within a cloud ecosystem (presently Microsoft Azure). Analyzes requirements, evaluates solutions, plans projects, procures resources, implements plans, tests, and deploys selected elements. Supports the maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of hosted applications, services, infrastructure components, and their related on-premises infrastructure. Monitors and Validates Security Configurations: Sets up alerts to detect changes,malfunctions, or unauthorized access or intrusions, early warning of security changes. Promotes; Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: Educates management on hosted service options and ensures IT infrastructure reflects sound principles. Keeps up with new technical developments, applying relevant innovations to projects. Recommends training for self and team and attends conferences to learn new security methods. Assesses FISMA compliance, determines risk profiles, and develops plans for contingency, continuity, incident response, and mitigation. Completes and updates compliance forms for audits. Advises division management on platform issues and helps develop strategic goals.
Education
Education is not required for this grade level. It cannot be used for qualification purposes.
How you will be evaluated
Once your resume or application is submitted, a review of your qualifications will be made to ensure you meet the job requirements and competencies required for this position. Competencies: Attention to Detail Oral Communication Problem Solving Technical Competence Technology Management Possession of competencies may be addressed in a cover letter and/or resume. To determine if you are qualified for this job, a review of your resume and supporting documentation will be made and compared against your responses to the occupational questionnaire. The numeric rating you receive is based on your responses to the questionnaire. If, after reviewing your resume and or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and/or experience, your score can and will be adjusted to more accurately reflect your qualifications. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating. Fair Chance Act: Under the Fair Chance Act, agencies are not allowed to request information about an applicant's criminal history until a conditional offer of employment has been made, except as allowed for access to classified information; assignment to national security duties or positions; or recruitment of a Federal law enforcement officer. An applicant may submit a complaint or any other information related to an organization's alleged noncompliance with the Fair Chance Act. The complaint must be submitted within 30 calendar days of the date of the alleged noncompliance. To make a Fair Chance Act inquiry or complaint, send an email with the appropriate information to [email protected], subject line: Fair Chance Act.