Security Specialist

Quick Facts

• Role: Security Specialist

Description

Provide expert, authoritative security and protection advice to senior leadership and system planners for program protection and physical/electronic security policies. Define, coordinate, and recommend security and program protection policies for complex weapons systems, including security requirements for fielding or user evaluation and lifecycle integration. Serve as the technical authority for Electronic Security System (ESS) aspects of physical security planning, operations, and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Participate in top-level agency decision-making planning meetings and exercises

• Provide authoritative security/protection guidance applying program protection and physical security policies, requirements, standards, and criteria

• Define, coordinate, and recommend comprehensive and coherent security and program protection policy for complex weapons systems

• Apply procedural security and protection methods/processes to develop solutions to complex security problems

• Provide oversight and programmatic direction for complex weapons systems protection programs and projects across the lifecycle

• Define and coordinate security requirements for weapon systems transitioning to users for fielding or evaluation

• Act as technical authority for ESS aspects of physical security planning, operations, and deployment

• Establish ESS criteria and conduct performance assessments/surveys of ESS applications

• Review and validate physical security and operations security aspects of ESS designs

• Formulate and accept testing procedures; resolve specialized technical hardware/software problems

• Make binding, on-the-spot decisions on ESS design alternatives during design, acquisition, and deployment phases

• Resolve operational and technical ESS problems involving intrusion detection, access control, and video assessment technologies

• Conduct special studies of state-of-the-art ESS applications and issues from design through operations

• Investigate complex ESS deployment/expansion issues and coordinate multidisciplinary and interagency solutions

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship

• Occasional travel

• Suitability for Federal employment based on a background investigation

• Obtain and maintain Critical Sensitive/Top Secret security clearance

• Initial drug screening and random testing required

• Not telework eligible

• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service

• Meet NH-04/GS-13 specialized experience: one year specialized experience with at least 2 of 4 experience areas

• No education substitution for specialized experience at this grade level

Benefits

A career with the U.S. government includes a comprehensive benefits package; eligibility depends on the position type and whether the role is full-time, part-time, or intermittent.