IT Cybersecurity Specialist (PLCYPLN)

Summary

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Position will be filled at any of the locations listed below. Site specific salary information as follows:

• Battle Creek, MI: $124,531- $161,889
• Columbus, OH: $129,946- $168,929
• Dayton, OH: $129,169 - $167,919
• Fort Belvoir, VA: $142,488- $185,234
• New Cumberland, PA: $142,488- $185,234
• Ogden, UT: $124,531- $161,889
• Philadelphia, PA: $137,222- $178,388
• Richmond, VA: $130,084- $169,108

Duties

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• Serves as a senior technical expert and strategic advisor within DLA. The incumbent leads advanced research initiatives focused on identifying, evaluating, and recommending emerging cybersecurity technologies.
• Develops comprehensive implementation proposals, including cost estimates, manpower requirements, and deployment timelines.
• Provides ongoing oversight of existing cybersecurity technologies, ensuring optimization, automation, and integration to support DLA's mission-critical operations and strategic security posture.
• Conducts in-depth research and analysis of emerging cybersecurity solutions, tools, platforms, and methodologies to determine their relevance, maturity, and potential impact on the organization's security infrastructure.
• Identifies industry trends, threat intelligence developments, and evolving best practices to proactively inform the organization's cybersecurity strategy.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• Tour of Duty: Set Schedule
• Security Requirements: Critical Sensitive with Top Secret Access
• Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
• Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.
• Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
• Bargaining Unit Status: No
• This position and any future selections from this announcement may be used to fill future vacancies for various shifts located anywhere within DLA Information Operations J6.

Qualifications

To qualify for an IT Cybersecurity Specialist (PLCYPLN), your resume must support:

1. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position, and is directly in or related to this position. To qualify at the GS-14 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including time-in-grade (General Schedule (GS) positions only), time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement. Creditable specialized experience includes but is not limited to:

• Evaluates new cybersecurity tools and platforms against established technical, operational, and security criteria, ensuring alignment with the organization's enterprise architecture, risk management framework, and compliance requirements.
• Synthesizes evaluation results into actionable recommendations, advising senior leadership on adoption strategies, risk considerations, and long-term sustainability.
• Develops detailed implementation proposals for recommended technologies, including comprehensive project plans, resource allocations, staffing models, and timelines for phased deployment.
• Prepares cost analyses, budget justifications, and expenditure forecasts that address procurement, licensing, integration, training, and maintenance requirements.
• Contributes to the development and refinement of cybersecurity policies, standards, and guidelines that govern technology adoption and utilization.
• Provides subject matter expertise and consultation to various stakeholders, including executive leadership, program managers, system owners, and operational teams, ensuring alignment of technology decisions with mission objectives.

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.

Education

Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level.

Additional information

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Reemployed Annuitants: This position does not meet criteria for appointment of Reemployed Annuitants. The DoD criteria for hiring Reemployed Annuitants can be found at: _vol300.PDF

Information for Veterans is available at: As of 23 December 2016, Military retirees seeking to enter federal service in the Department of Defense now require a waiver if they would be appointed within 180 days following their official date of retirement.

Drug-Free Workplace Policy

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is committed to maintaining a safe, drug-free workplace. All DLA employees are required to refrain from illegal drug use on and off duty. DLA conducts pre-employment, reasonable suspicion, post-accident, and random drug testing.

Applicants tentatively selected for employment in testing designated positions will undergo a urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Refusal to undergo testing or testing positive for illegal drugs will result in withdrawal of the tentative job offer and a six-month denial of employment with DLA from the date of the drug test. Employees in drug testing designated positions are subject to random drug testing.

The DLA drug testing panel tests for the following substances: marijuana, cocaine, opiates, heroin, phencyclidine, amphetamines, methamphetamines, fentanyl, norfentanyl, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), and opioids.

ADVISORY: Use of cannabidiol (CBD) products may result in a positive drug test for marijuana. DLA employees are subject to Federal law and under Federal law, Marijuana is a Schedule I drug and is illegal.

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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Benefits

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