Summary About the Position: The Readiness Engineering Portfolio reorganize and optimizes our life-cycle engineering/sustainment functions by combining field system sustainment with current operations in quick reaction, urgent operational needs and direct field support mission areas into the same portfolio of responsibility. This is an Interdisciplinary position and may be filled with any of the listed occupations. Responsibilities Lead the effort to stand up a system of Systems Integration Laboratory (SIL) as a collaborative effort between C5ISR Center, PM EWC, and CECOM SEC. Foster the development of a cross-organization integrated product team to achieve SIL Objectives. Establish project goals and priorities, develop project plans, schedules, and resource allocations. Evaluates results through periodic reviews, briefings, and reports to higher management. Collaborate with senior stakeholder personnel (including CECOM SEC, C5ISR RTI and ETI, and PM EWC) on program requirements and schedules. Coordinate team efforts of non-direct report IT Specialists and Engineers in the development of laboratory infrastructure. Assess long-term needs to recommend appropriate solutions. Implement appropriate management controls to ensure laboratory integrity, addressing cyber security requirements, configuration management, system onboarding procedures, etc. Monitor all phases of software development/software engineering to ensure infrastructure suitability. Pursue the goal of a seamless collaboration environment between C5ISR, PM Customers, and their Prime vendor developers. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Job Description: The C5ISR Center, in partnership and support of PM Electronic Warfare & Cyber (EW&C), is developing a state-of-the-art System Integration Laboratory (SIL). This laboratory encompasses systems, subsystems, software, networks, techniques, and analysis related to the generation, transmission, reception, manipulation, and management of electromagnetic signals and their associated data. Specialty areas within this domain include signals intelligence (SIGINT), electronic warfare (EW), radar, positioning/navigation/timing (PNT), radio frequency (RF) sensors, and tactical & commercial communications (terrestrial, wireless, and satellite). The primary objectives of the SIL are to enable system integration, system of system integration, interoperability, and the seamless exchange of data across respective domains and security enclaves. This will be achieved within an agile standardized environment inclusive of a continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) / development security operations (DevSecOps) software ecosystem. The senior engineer position will be responsible for leading the development and evolution of the SIL infrastructure consisting of networks, closed restricted networks (CRNs), virtual private networks (VPNs), servers, cloud computing environments with associated Impact Levels (ILs) and infrastructure as code, container orchestration methods, cross-domain solutions, data, data formats, and implementation Open Standards and MOSA enabling standards, establishing and evolving DevSecOps and CI/CD software pipelines, incorporating automated software testing, planning and executing required Risk Management Framework (RMF) and Accreditation and Authority to Operate (ATO) activities to achieve goals of continuous ATOs and ATO reciprocity. Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army) Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade or band is required. It is defined as one year of specialized experience equivalent to the DB-03 pay band (or GS-13 level or higher equivalency) in the Federal Service which includes 1) Developing, Integrating and/or testing Communications systems, Electronic Warfare (EW), Radio Frequency (RF) sensors/receivers or the signal and data processing of RF for threat detection and geolocation, network operations, communications; OR 2) Applying engineering concepts and/or providing technical advice in the development of Signal Intelligence/CYBER Electronic Warfare (SIGINT/CYBER/EW), Electronic Support, Electronic Attack technologies; OR 3) Solve critical technical and analysis problems of great importance to the scientific field to move technology forward into the next generation; AND 4) Developing and maintaining customer relations with internal and external stakeholders. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Creativity and Innovation Problem Solving Research and Development Education Basic Requirement for Engineering: A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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. OR 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: 1. Professional registration or licensure - Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), 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 Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. 2. Written Test - Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination, or any other written test required for professional registration, by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico 3. 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program. 4. Related curriculum - Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's 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 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. Basic Requirement for Computer Scientist (1550 series): Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in computer science or bachelor's degree (or higher degree) with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus. Transcripts are required to meet the Basic Education for the applicable series. FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/. Additional Information Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration. You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship. Three-year trial/probationary period may be required. Direct deposit of pay is required. This position requires you to submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE450) upon entry, and annually thereafter. Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees. If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet. This is an Engineers and Scientists (Non-Construction) Career Field position. Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement. Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest. This is a Science and Technology Laboratory Personnel Demonstration Project position. The DB-04 pay band incorporates the GS-14 step 01 through GS-15 step 10. This is an Interdisciplinary position and may be filled with any of the listed occupations. If you are a current Federal employee, provide a copy of your latest SF50. Transcripts are required to meet the Basic Education for the applicable series.
