Computer Engineer (Cybersecurity)
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Birmingham, MI - USA
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Job Summary
PLEASE NOTE: Based on the current hiring restrictions selectees may be subject to additional approvals prior to an offer being extended.
This position is located at Bureau of the Fiscal Service Applications Development Division. As a Computer Engineer (Cybersecurity) you will oversee development implementation integration testing security and modernization activities for assigned systems and applications.
As a Computer Engineer (Cybersecurity) you will:
- Be responsible for overseeing the full lifecycle development integration and implementation of the Bureaus mission-critical enterprise systems and applications ensuring they meet security reliability and efficiency standards.
- Serve as the Bureaus technical liaison with outsourced system development partners ensuring that all mission-critical enterprise systems and applications enhancements maintenance and modernization efforts are executed according to federal requirements and agency standards.
- Be responsible for overseeing and coordinating engineering efforts related to system modifications and enhancements required to support the Bureaus evolving product roadmap for systems supporting Treasury and Fiscal Service mission and business operations.
- Be responsible for establishing and overseeing rigorous testing and quality assurance (QA) processes to ensure that all updates modifications and enhancements to the Bureaus mission-critical enterprise systems and applications function correctly securely and efficiently.
- Be responsible for ensuring that all mission-critical enterprise systems and applications within the Bureau comply with federal cybersecurity standards financial regulations and risk management frameworks.
- Serve as a technical advisor and liaison between internal and external stakeholders ensuring that mission-critical enterprise systems and applications enhancements security measures and operational changes align with federal policies cybersecurity mandates and Bureau objectives.
- Work closely with stakeholders including product managers security teams and operational staff to define system requirements; Maintain detailed technical documentation including system specifications design documents and engineering reports; and provide clear and actionable recommendations to leadership regarding system development and future enhancements.
- All newly appointed employees to the competitive (or excepted) service are subject to a probationary (or trial) period. During this time your performance conduct and suitability for continued employment will be evaluated. You will not automatically convert to permanent status at the end of the probationary (or trial) period. Your supervisor must affirmatively determine that continued employment is in the best interest of the Federal service. If no certification is made before the probationary (or trial) period ends your appointment will be terminated. You are encouraged to actively engage with your supervisor seek feedback and understand role expectations. Additional guidance and support will be provided during onboarding.
- Must successfully complete a background investigation. Periodic reinvestigation is required no later than five years after selection and at least every succeeding five years.
- Complete a Declaration for Federal Employment to determine your suitability for Federal employment at the time requested by the agency.
- Have your salary sent to a financial institution of your choice by Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds Transfer.
- If you are a male applicant born after December 31 1959 certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so.
- Go through a Personal Identity Verification (PIV) process that requires two forms of identification from the Form I-9. Federal law requires verification of the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires in the U.S.
- This position requires that the successful candidate undergo personnel vetting which includes a background investigation and enrollment upon onboarding into Continuous Vetting. Enrollment in Continuous Vetting will result in automated record checks being conducted throughout ones employment with Treasury. The successful candidate will also be enrolled into FBIs Rap Back service which will allow Treasury to receive notification from the FBI of criminal matters (e.g. arrests charges convictions) involving enrolled individuals in near real-time. For more information about individual rights Noncriminal Justice Applicants Privacy Rights - FBI FD-258 Privacy Act Statement - FBI and ().
Key Requirements:
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- Must be U.S. Citizen or U.S. National
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
The experience may have been gained in either the public private sector or volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year and indicate number of hours worked per week on your résumé.
For the GS-13 you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal Experience for this position includes:
Experience performing work that involves the design documentation development modification testing installation implementation and support of new or existing applications software in order to ensure that applications are optimized for state-of-the-art technology current and planned functionality and regulatory requirements for an organization.
Examples for this position could include:
- Project experience for a business system with a wide variety of technologies (i.e. programming languages frameworks platforms tools databases); OR
- Experience providing IT services such as designing developing testing documenting maintaining and/or integrating application software; OR
- Participating in technological planning product evaluation and report development.
Education Requirements:
A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable the program must: (1) lead to a bachelors degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics such as optics heat transfer soil mechanics or electronics.
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B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education training and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering and (2) a good understanding both theoretical and practical of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:
- Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI) Engineer in Training (EIT)1 or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State the District of Columbia Guam or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g. State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example an applicant who attains registration through a State Boards eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
- Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States the District of Columbia Guam and Puerto Rico.
- Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical mathematical and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
- Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelors degree in an appropriate scientific field e.g. engineering technology physics chemistry architecture computer science mathematics hydrology or geology may be accepted in lieu of a bachelors degree in engineering provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience e.g. in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)
OTHER INFORMATION:
- Factors such as cost effectiveness labor market conditions and difficulties in filling the position will be reviewed in determining if payment of relocation expenses is in the best interest of the Government.
- We may select from this announcement or any other source to fill one or more vacancies.
- This position is a High Risk Public Trustposition.
- We offer opportunities for telework.
- We offer opportunities for flexible work schedules.
Our comprehensive benefits are very generous. Our benefits package includes:
- Challenging work opportunities for advancement competitive salaries bonuses and incentive awards.
- Eleven paid holidays 13 days of sick leave and 13 to 26 days of vacation time each year.
- Access to insurance programs that may be continued after you retire.
- A wide choice of health insurance plans coverage for pre-existing conditions and no waiting periods. We pay a substantial amount (up to 75%) of the health insurance premiums. remove if a temp appointment
- A retirement program which includes employer-matching contributions.
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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