Security Specialist

Duty Location

FORT BLISS, EL PASO, TX

Major Duties

• This position is located at the 7th Signal Command (Theater), 106th Signal Brigade, USA NTWK ENT CTR (Ft. Bliss) Services Management Division, located at Fort Bliss, TX.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with established Army regulations, policies and procedures.
• Based on a thorough review of case files, makes favorable determinations or and prepares Letters of Intent to deny/revoke access/security clearance.
• Serves as the security officer for all visits to command facilities and processes.
• Determines the need to waive personnel security and investigative standards, and/or under what circumstances specific waivers can be justified.
• Identifies security controls for Force Protection/Counter Terrorism to assure maximum protection, and in the areas of information, personnel, equipment, and facilities.
• Makes recommendations regarding Risk Management Framework (RMF) and Cyber Command Readiness Inspection (CCRI) programs.

Qualifications/ Specialized Experience

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. 10-Point Other Veterans’ Rating 30 Percent or More Disabled Veterans 5-Point Veterans' Preference Current Army Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Employee Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army) Current DoD Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Employee (non-Army) Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Interchange Agreement Disabled Veteran w/ a Service-Connected Disability, More than 10%, Less than 30% Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Prior Federal Service Employee Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible United States Citizen Applying to a DCIPS Position Army DCIPS positions apply Veteran's Preference to preference eligible candidates as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 2005, DCIPS Employment and Placement. In order to qualify, you must meet the 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. To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as experience utilizing two or more of the following disciplines, Communications Security (COMSEC), Personnel Security (PERSEC), Information Security (INFOSEC) and/or Physical Security (PHYSEC); AND conducting Cyber Command Readiness Inspections (CCRI) for an organization. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GG/GS-11). Specialized experience is progressively responsible intelligence-related security work directly related to the position being filled. Creditable experience may include previous military experience, experience gained in the private sector or in another government agency as long as it was at a level at least equivalent to the next lower band in the series.