Total 104 information technology job vacancies in stafford virginia

• You will be responsible for technical aspects of the Insider Threat Program (InTP) automated tools in a coordinated effort to protect the Command's information from insider threats.
• You will detect, analyze, and conduct preliminary inquiries into threats to information and assets physically and logically housed within or managed by MCISRE, referring suspected or confirmed threats to officials for investigation and action.
• You will implement and perform user activity monitoring, audit capabilities, and network and system design.
• You will implement Insider Threat Program (InTP) audit capabilities, defined triggers, and data collection tools.
• You will establish information assurance procedures related to combating the insider threat.
• You will develop policies and procedures to ensure insider threat associated information systems reliability and accessibility and to prevent and defend against unauthorized access to systems, networks, and data.
• You will ensure Department of Defense, Department of the Navy, and Marine Corps security policies, procedures, and practices are adhered to when providing security engineering solutions to projects.
• You will assist in the development of Insider Threat Program (InTP) systems security contingency plans and disaster recovery procedures.
• You will assess audit and security events to determine impact and implementation of corrective action.
• You will assist in the development and coherent presentation of threats and potential investigative leads related to Insider Threat Program (InTP).
• You will participate in the gathering, analysis, and preservation of evidence used in the identification of potential or suspected insider threats.
• You will participate in network and systems design to ensure implementation of appropriate systems security policies related to insider threat.
• You will provide advice to decision-makers in setting security program goals and establishing priorities to support the development of policy and procedures for implementation of higher level security guidance.
• You will gather information system requirements, perform security assessment to determine vulnerabilities, and develops or acquires engineering solutions.

• You will develop policy, budgets, and procedures governing effectiveness and efficiency of data systems.
• You will initiate, plan, direct and conduct comprehensive studies and reviews to advise leadership on maintenance data system design and performance based on that analysis.
• You will use data analysis and other techniques to provide recommendations to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of maintenance data system applications.
• You will Initiate budgets and provide input for operation and sustainment, training, testing and re-platform of applicable programs.
• You will establish metrics to measure and evaluate system performance and total cost of ownership.
• You will monitor performance and provide recommendations to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of systems.
• You will utilize database systems to determine resource requirements.
• You will provide proposals to senior management and stakeholders to improve applications to support operations and utilize emerging technologies.
• You will identify and specify business process requirements and to define opportunities for new or improved process solutions.
• You will identify potential problem areas, trends, processes, procedures and efficiencies of data system applications.
• You will identify opportunities to improve data system applications to support operations and utilize emerging technologies.
• You will identify skill sets and manpower needed to maintain applications.
• You will solve technical information system and administrative problems.
• You will resolve unusual/difficult issues significantly impacting important policies or programs.

• You will track and oversee all assigned training initiatives for the Division and supports the Division’s high velocity learning environment.
• You will provide status reports to leadership.
• You will assess policy needs and collaborate with subject matter experts and stakeholders to develop C4 workforce policies to govern C4 activities.

The physical worksite for this position is located in Alexandria, Virginia.This position is telework eligible per agency and business unit discretion/policy. Fully remote within 50 miles of the USPTO Alexandria, VA headquarters and the duty station is the authorized telework location.


The individual selected for this position will…

• Formulate and oversee short- and long-term plans to shape the overall customer communication strategy with the primary focus of enhancing the agency's website presence.
• Manage all Patent related content for all internal/external websites. Conduct reviews to ensure quality standards, content and functionality is maintained.
• Research best practices and trends within the digital communication field to stay abreast of evolving techniques and technologies.
• Analyze and provide metrics, reports on performance and impact on the agency's efforts and effectiveness of online campaigns and web initiatives.

This Information Technology Project Manager (INFOSEC) position is located Enterprise Support, Information Technology, End User Service Division, Field IT Services & Support Branch, Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to:

• Exercises a full range of supervisory and personnel management authorities and responsibilities in directing work of subordinate staff. Coordinates and evaluates subordinates' work to assure balanced workload and timely responses to assigned actions. Gives advice, counsel, or instruction to employees on both work and administrative matters.
• Establishes and maintains guidelines and controls, and manages the overall projects to include acquisition strategy, budget planning, engineering life cycle activities, developmental and operational and support, component procurement, and outsourcing. Provides expert technical skills and services to provide optimum solutions to complex and sensitive issues and difficult problems, often requiring innovative methods to achieve results.
• Advises, manages, and adheres to policy recommendations while ensuring compliance with existing IT security, cybersecurity, acquisition, enterprise change control and configuration management policies on a routine basis. Ensures the application of information security/information assurance policies, principles, and practices in the delivery of information technology services.
• Ensure that appropriate Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) and underpinning contracts have been defined that clearly set out for the customer a description of the service and the measures for monitoring the service. Work with other service managers and product owners to balance and prioritize services to meet overall customer requirements, constraints, and objectives. Supervise, manage, and participate in the acquisition process as necessary. Supervises COR activities generally appropriate for contract vehicles of moderate to high complexity to include both supply and service contracts.

This Information Technology Project Manager (INFOSEC) position is located Information Technology, End User Service Division, Field IT Services & Support Branch, Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to:

• Exercises a full range of supervisory and personnel management authorities and responsibilities in directing work of subordinate staff. Coordinates and evaluates subordinates' work to assure balanced workload and timely responses to assigned actions. Gives advice, counsel, or instruction to employees on both work and administrative matters.
• Establishes and maintains guidelines and controls, and manages the overall projects to include acquisition strategy, budget planning, engineering life cycle activities, developmental and operational and support, component procurement, and outsourcing. Provides expert technical skills and services to provide optimum solutions to complex and sensitive issues and difficult problems, often requiring innovative methods to achieve results.
• Advises, manages, and adheres to policy recommendations while ensuring compliance with existing IT security, cybersecurity, acquisition, enterprise change control and configuration management policies on a routine basis. Ensures the application of information security/information assurance policies, principles, and practices in the delivery of information technology services.
• Ensure that appropriate Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) and underpinning contracts have been defined that clearly set out for the customer a description of the service and the measures for monitoring the service. Work with other service managers and product owners to balance and prioritize services to meet overall customer requirements, constraints, and objectives. Supervise, manage, and participate in the acquisition process as necessary. Supervises COR activities generally appropriate for contract vehicles of moderate to high complexity to include both supply and service contracts.

• You will plan, assign and evaluate work of subordinate employees, ensuring timely performance of a satisfactory amount/quality of work based on priorities, difficulty, requirements of assignments, and capabilities of employees.
• You will develop new techniques and establish new approaches and methods for IT procedures, plans, and techniques, and participate in the IT capital planning process
• You will establish and monitor metrics used in evaluating the accomplishment of IT goals and objectives and develops and uphold strategic plans.
• You will manage audits of IT programs and projects; and/or ensure the demanding application of information security/information assurance guidelines, principles, and practices in the distribution of planning and management services.
• You will manage and oversee the maintenance of the hardware and software installed on the various networks, operates as a standalone, or used to support various industrial equipment used by NNSY.
• You will develop procedures and processes to ensure information systems dependability and accessibility and to prevent and protect against unauthorized access to systems, networks, and information.
• You will conduct risk and vulnerability assessments of scheduled and installed information systems to recognize vulnerabilities, risks, and defense needs.

Joining the Customs and Border Protection Office of Information and Technology will allow you to use your experience in application software, policies and procedures. This position starts at a salary of $139,395.00 (GS-14, Step 1) to $181,216.00 (GS-14, Step 10). Apply for this exciting opportunity to strengthen Homeland Security by supporting new or existing software applications.

In this Supervisory Information Technology Specialist (Applications Software) position you will become a key team member of Homeland Security professionals to ensure that various Information Technology (IT) application software components. Typical work assignments include:

• Managing IT applications using agile methodologies from initiation to completion, including technical project management of new and ongoing projects.
• Supervising the design, development and testing of large and complex programs that are mission critical or have a wide impact.
• Reviewing and interpreting departmental IT policies, standards and guideline, procedures, and strategies governing the planning, design, and deliver of agency-wide software design.
• Serving as the primary liaison between customers and vendors and IT management throughout the development process.
• Developing performance plans and giving advice, counsel, or instruction to subordinates on both work and administrative matters.

• You will coordinate a variety of security issues with other commands, higher echelons, and external organizations to address cybersecurity requirements.
• You will evaluate the impact of new laws and guidance on current programs and systems and recommend changes to existing plans and policies to ensure compliance and responsiveness.
• You will execute the administration of the Command Cyber IT/Cybersecurity Workforce (CSWF) Program.
• You will modify IT plans and policies to respond to changes in the command's business or mission requirements and processes or change in legislation or regulatory requirements.
• You will develop project documentation including statements of work, business case analyses, charter, scope, schedule, cost, risk, stakeholder and communication management plans.

• Manage the installation, testing, operation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of systems
• Provide guidance on guidance statements, business case analysis, and system design and development.
• Work with various agencies to identify and integrate business applications.
• Map systems, processes, organizations, gaps in capabilities, discovers bottlenecks, and other various system complications within the enterprise architecture.
• Inspect supplies and services to determine acceptability and reject those that do not meet the contract standards or requirements.

• You will serve as Navy’s Lead Action Officer (AO) for adoption of policies and strategies for implementation of Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) and Enterprise Cloud to achieve Navy mission outcomes.
• You will establish strategy, policy, direction, and guidance for adoption of DevSecOps and Cloud Computing that will enable the development of cloud-native systems and applications.
• You will represent OPNAV N2N6 at various National executive-level DevSecOps and Cloud related programming requirements and capabilities working groups, meetings, seminars, panels or conferences.
• You will handle highly complex, sensitive, or ambiguous challenges facing the organization.
• You will engage in in strategic, intermediate and long-term planning, coordination and implementation oversight of DevSecOps and Cloud strategies to include the Intelligence Community.
• You will represent the strategic policy positions to leadership, stakeholder teams, engineering, and other organizations to drive strategic discussions and compliance solutions.

As a Information Technology Specialist, GS-2210-13, your typical work assignments may include:

• Ensures guidance is followed in order to meet performance levels and other requirements. Understands each phase of the system development lifecycle (SDLC). Makes recommendations on advantageous approaches for enhancing existing systems, or for new system design methodologies to improve system performance.
• Develops IT projects to meet mission and operational technology needs. Manages IT projects applying PMI and FAC P/PM project management principles, methods and approaches.
• Serves as the team lead for OBIM SharePoint Services. This involves overseeing the administration, development, and management of the organization's SharePoint infrastructure and management of the organization's SharePoint based Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) Community of Interest and associated sites.
• Evaluates a broad range of software/hardware systems and develops implementation techniques for integration into the existing IT environment.

The Director of OITP shall assist the Assistant Commissioner in leading and managing the operations in OITP as well as develop technical analyses and well-documented tactical implementation approaches and initiatives that will ensure the accomplishment of the USPTO's priorities, goals and objectives. The incumbent will also:

• Oversee the provision of information technology resources, infrastructure, and capabilities for the examining corps, patent support organizations, and external stakeholders; examples of resources, infrastructure, and capabilities include cloud migrations, artificial intelligence (AI), electronic filing and management of patent applications, and publications of Patent documents.
• Support the development, delivery, and administration of automation training including step-by-step transition guides to ensure successful adoption and implementation of new methodologies.
• Provide support of automation products and services to the Patents business unit.
• Promote and carry out initiatives and practices in support of the strategic plan and goals of the USPTO.
• Aide in the development of policies and procedures that affect immediate organizations in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining IT solutions.
• Develop and implement best practices and processes with respect to Intellectual Property.
• Identify recurring challenges, analyzing trends and establishing measures addressing these challenges, trends and needs consistent with the policies of the Office. Provide a reporting and evaluation system to determine the operating effectiveness, including staffing analysis.
• Participate in the formulation and ensure implementation of quality assurance and quality standards for training new examiners to use appropriate information technology resources.
• Create avenues for user involvement to determine needs and to transform these needs into requirements, and to gain agreement on their priority.
• Provide oversight for transmission of requirements to the Office of the Chief Information Officer and actively assist in the project management, development, and deployment of the resulting tools.
• Ensure support and coordination for automation-related projects resulting from international projects and agreements.

• The Office of Patent Automation (OPA)
• The Office of Patent Information Resources (OPIR)
• The Office of Scientific and Technical Information Resources (STIC)
• The Office of Governance and Program Support (GPS)

The Intelligence and Cybersecurity Diversity Fellowship (ICDF) Program is a Congressionally-mandated program designed to help DHS recruit, retain, and reward the best and brightest. The program provides qualified students opportunities to work alongside highly skilled intelligence and cybersecurity professionals at DHS, gain hands-on technical experience, interact with experts and peers at professional development events, and expand their professional network. This program is funded by the DHS Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer.

Typical work assignments include, but are not limited to:

• Assisting with public-facing cyber outreach and engagement.
• Supporting the overall work of the office ensuring smooth operation, proper delivery of services, and effective customer support.
• Assisting with the generation of program source codes using various computer languages.
• Assisting with network monitoring and incident response.
• Applying hardware and software updates to systems.
• Researching cybersecurity tools and techniques.
• Assisting with the analysis of cybersecurity programs and researching new solutions for emerging cyber security threats.
• Assisting with the analyzing and evaluating security log data.

• Obtain a bachelor's degree in a STEM, IT, cybersecurity, or intelligence field;
• GPA of at least a 3.2 on a 4.0 scale;
• Completed 480 hours of work at the Department;
• Participated in designated technical and core training;
• Collaborated with subject matter expert mentors in intelligence and cybersecurity; and
• Completed a challenge project (as designated by the agency).

Program Benefits:

• First-hand, practical experience in intelligence or cybersecurity disciplines;
• Individual Development Plans (IDP) providing a roadmap for professional development;
• Participation in high priority challenging projects;
• Formal and informal training in core and technical competencies;
• Access to mentors who will provide advice and support; and
• May be eligible for tuition assistance.

As a INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST (ENTARCH/DATAMGT) at the GS-2210-14 some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Provides subject matter expertise on enterprise data architecture/data governance frameworks, data security, data management, and risk management for DSCA Data environment. Coordinates and collaborates with other DoD agencies on data governance and enterprise data architecture projects as required.
• Develops an enterprise data architecture and governance strategy to support strategic decision making and influence technology implementation and business operations optimization.
• Leads the DSCA data governance program, including the development and enforcement of data policies and procedures related to data quality, lineage, consistency, and accuracy.
• Serves as subject matter expert on enterprise data architecture and governance in support of IT investment review, portfolio management, security design, and future state planning for enterprise architecture.