Supervisory IT Specialist

Supervisory IT Specialist

Department: Department of Transportation

Location(s): Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Salary Range: $111779 - $173292 Per Year

Job Summary: Serves as a Supervisory IT Specialist in the Cybersecurity Assessment Section, AMK-232.

Major Duties:

• The incumbent serves as the Manager of the Cybersecurity Assessment Section, leading a Federal Shared Service Provider (SSP) portfolio dedicated to ensuring client systems achieve and maintain compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA). The manager directs a technical workforce of IT Specialists providing standardized, scalable cybersecurity auditing and security services across a diverse customer base, including the Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, and multiple external federal partner agencies. Key responsibilities include managing initial system authorizations, triennial re-assessments and independent assessments in support of Continuous Monitoring using NIST SP 800-53 and Agency-specific standards within a multi-tenant environment. The manager oversees the delivery of shared security services, ensuring that centralized controls meet the rigorous requirements of diverse client Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Managerial duties include: planning and communicating the organization's vision; setting priorities for cross-agency projects; assigning tasks; monitoring performance; and coaching staff. The manager oversees the section's reimbursable budget, tracking resource consumption to ensure cost-recovery and projecting future funding needs based on new customer onboarding. As a senior technical lead, the incumbent integrates complex solutions across organizational lines, develops innovative automated assessment processes, and represents the FAA as a primary point of contact for external agency stakeholders. The manager serves as a Program Manager for business development, drafting service proposals, marketing new capabilities to potential federal clients, and managing customer relations to ensure the sustainability of the shared service model.

Qualifications: To qualify for this position at the FV-J (FG/GS-14) level, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the FV-I (FG/GS-13) level. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. Specialized experience includes: Experience managing or leading cybersecurity assessment services within a shared service or multi-agency environment, ensuring compliance across different organizational risk profiles. Experience advising senior management on IT system design and inter-relationships, specifically regarding how centralized security controls impact decentralized client architectures. Experience auditing data processing systems to ensure adherence to FISMA, NIST, and OMB federal cybersecurity mandates. Experience managing reimbursable budgets, developing business proposals for technical services, and maintaining inter-agency agreements (IAAs) or SLAs. AND Individuals must have IT-related experience demonstrating each of the four competencies listed below. The experience may be demonstrated by paid or unpaid experience and/or completion of specific, intensive training (for example, IT certification), as appropriate. 1. Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail. 2. Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services. 3. Oral Communication - Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately. 4. Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations. ALSO Quality Ranking Factor (QRF): Well qualified applicants will have knowledge and documented experience with each of the following: Experience with vulnerability identification or patch management; Experience evaluating and providing recommendations on technical cybersecurity controls; Experience performing and communicating comprehensive risk analysis for largescale, distribution systems. Applicants should provide examples of specialized experience in their work history. Qualifications must be met by the closing date of the vacancy announcement.

How to Apply: Applicants may be required to complete one or multiple assessments as part of the evaluation process. This assessment aims to evaluate the competencies and qualifications essential for the position. You must apply online to receive consideration. Your application must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the Close Date for it to be accepted. If you are applying for positions associated with FAA registers, your application must be submitted at the time a referral list is created in order to receive consideration for positions associated with a register. RESUMES ARE LIMITED TO TWO PAGES. IN DESCRIBING YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC AND INCLUDE INFORMATION AS IT RELATES TO THE QUALIFICATIONS AND SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS POSITION. Please ensure EACH work history includes ALL of the following information: Job Title (include series and grade if Federal Job) Relevant work experience: should align to the Job Announcement and address all required qualifications and include job title, employer name, start/end dates, number of hours worked per week. Education, certification or licensure: If required, education should include school/institution name, completion date, degree type and GPA. Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above information and failure to provide ALL of this information may result in a finding of ineligible. You may upload completed documents to your USAJOBS Account. This will provide you the opportunity to utilize the uploaded information again when applying for future vacancies.

Application Deadline: 2026-05-04