Security Specialist

You may qualify at the NH 04 Broadband Level, if you fulfill the following qualifications: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the NH-03/GS 13 grade level in the Federal service as listed below and must meet 2 of 4 specialized experience listed below to be qualified: Experience applying physical security principles, federal directives, and regulatory standards to evaluate facility and system safeguards, oversee electronic security systems (ESS), and provide authoritative technical guidance across complex operational environments.

Threat, Vulnerability & Risk Mitigation: Experience conducting risk, threat, and vulnerability assessments to identify security deficiencies and formulate mitigation strategies that protect personnel, facilities, and critical assets. Acquisition & Program Protection: Experience integrating system security engineering, program protection planning, and physical security requirements into complex systems or weapons programs across development, production, and life-cycle phases.

Interagency Collaboration & Advisory Communication: Experience leading or participating on multi-disciplinary and interagency teams to resolve complex security issues, coordinating requirements across joint military, defense, federal, and partner entities, and conveying recommendations or decisions to senior leadership.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

This position is being filled under AcqDemo Direct Hiring Authority (DHA) for non-acquisition positions involving 51% or more of time in direct support of acquisition positions within Business and Technical Management Professional Career path. This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Acq Demo Business and Technical Management to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

As a Security Specialist at the NH-0080-4 broadband level, some of your typical work assignments may include: Participates in top-level agency decision-making planning meetings and exercises.

Provides expert, authoritative security and protection advice and guidance to senior and agency personnel in the application of program protection, physical security and protection policies, requirements, standards and criteria, through direct interaction with system planners within the charter of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Homeland Defense Mission. Defines, coordinates and recommends a comprehensive and coherent security and program protection policy for complex weapons systems.

Applies procedural security and protection methods and processes to develop policies and procedures that provide security solutions to complex problems. Provides oversight and programmatic direction over planning, definition, and development of: a.

Complex weapons systems protection programs, ensuring: (1) programs are based on realistic, comprehensive assessments of threat, vulnerability, and risk posed to systems; (2) consideration of national level policies and standards; (3) identification of problem areas where revisions to standards or development of new standards are required. b.

Programs and projects to create/improve security policies, systems, standards, methods, and techniques to be applied throughout the life cycle of a weapons systems development or technology demonstration. Defines and coordinates security requirements for weapon systems transitioning to users for fielding or user evaluation.

Serves as the technical authority for the development, coordination, implementation, management, and oversight of Electronic Security System (ESS) aspects of physical security planning, operations, and deployment.

Primary responsibilities include establishment of ESS related criteria, performance of ESS applications assessments and surveys, review and validation of physical security and operations security aspects of ESS designs, formulation and acceptance of testing procedures, resolution of specialized technical hardware and software problems, and all other technical coordination required to insure successful deployment and operation of ESS projects.

Determine consequences of ESS design alternatives with regard to policy/procedure requirements and make binding on the-spot decisions in the design, acquisition, and deployment phases of ESS projects. Provides expertise in resolution of ESS operational and technical problems associated with state-of-the-art intrusion detection, access control, and video assessment technology. Conduct special studies of state-of the art ESS applications and problems that arise during design, installation, testing, and operations.

Participates in technical forums with various agencies, as well as commercial industry, in development and improvement of various technical policy, procedures and criteria. Participates in teams to investigate special problems and issues dealing with planning for ESS deployment and expansions, and other issues required to solve complex technical problem areas. Reviews planning for new system expansion designs for conformance to established design techniques, standards, and regulations.

Provides input to designs for application of unique equipment or systems for complex and highly sophisticated state-of-the-art instrumentation system.