IT Specialist (Security)

IT Specialist (Security) Judicial Branch Administrive Office of the U.S. Courts Summary The IT Specialist (Security) position is in the Office of the Deputy Director, Case Management Modernizion (CMM) Program Office. The CMM drives change management and adoption practices to achieve delivery of a modernized, efficient, and secure case management environment. This role leads teams, manages resources, and delivers solutions supporting the judiciary's mission and operional excellence. Learn more about this agency Summary The IT Specialist (Security) position is in the Office of the Deputy Director, Case Management Modernizion (CMM) Program Office. The CMM drives change management and adoption practices to achieve delivery of a modernized, efficient, and secure case management environment. This role leads teams, manages resources, and delivers solutions supporting the judiciary's mission and operional excellence. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/12/2026 to 05/19/2026 This job will close when we have received 150 applicions which may be sooner than the closing de. Learn more Salary $102,415

• $191,965 per year Pay scale & grade AD 00 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Washington, DC Remote job No Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Travel Required Occasional travel
• You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Temporary
• 4 years Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential None Job family (Series) 2210 Informion Technology Management Supervisory stus No Security clearance Not Required Drug test No Financial disclosure No Bargaining unit stus No Announcement number 26-CMM-12958683 Control number 868817500 This job is open to Help The public U.

S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Clarificion from the agency This position is open to the public. This position allows for situional and recurring telework, but does not qualify for fulltime or remote telework. Duties Help The Administrive Office of the U.S. Courts seeks a skilled and self-motived IT Specialist to serve as an Informion System Security Representive (ISSR) on the Case Management Modernizion (CMM) Program Office's security team. The ISSR position serves as the security representive for the CMM Informion System Security Manager (ISSM). In this role, the ISSR protects IT infrastructure by developing security policies, conducting risk assessments, and ensuring compliance with standards like NIST. The incumbent monitors systems for thres, manages security controls, and acts as a liaison between technical teams and management to maintain system authorizion (ATO). The duties of this position include, but are not limited to: Ensuring compliance and conducting risk management by maintaining the security assessment and authorizion process, managing plan of action and milestones, and conducting risk assessments. Analyzing security logs, monitoring network traffic, and responding to incidents. Developing and enforcing security policies, procedures, and technical controls. Maintaining security documention and educing staff on security best practices. Evaluing the effectiveness of security controls and confirming they are implemented correctly and opering as intended. Analyzing system security plans, policies, and procedures to identify potential vulnerabilities. Identifying, evaluing, and documenting residual risks to determine if they are acceptable to the organizion Collaboring with the informion system security manager, informion system security officer, and technical teams to discuss vulnerabilities and remediion stregies. Requirements Help Conditions of employment

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

All informion is subject to verificion. Applicants are advised th false answers or omissions of informion on applicion merials or inability to meet the following conditions may be grounds for non-selection, withdrawal of an offer of employment, or dismissal after being employed. Selection for this position is contingent upon completion of OF-306, Declarion of Federal Employment during the pre-employment process and proof of U.S. citizenship for competitive stus positions or conversion to a competitive stus position with the AO. If non-citizens are considered for hire into a temporary or any other position with non-competitive stus or when it is confirmed by the AO Human Resources Office there are no qualified U.S. citizens for a competitive stus position (unless prohibited by a law or stue), non-citizens must provide proof of authorizion to work in the U.S. and proof of entitlement to receive compension. Additional informion on the employment of non-citizens can be found USAJOBS Help Center | Employment of non-citizens / . For a list of documents th may be used to provide proof of citizenship or authorizion to work in the United Stes, please refer to Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verificion . All new AO employees required to complete an FBI fingerprint-based nional criminal dabase and records check and pass a public trust suitability check. New employees to the AO required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verificion check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights/responsibilities, https://www.e-verify.gov/ . All new AO employees are required to identify a financial institution for direct deposit of pay before appointment. You required to serve a trial period if selected for a first-time appointment to the Federal government, transferring from another Federal agency, or serving as a first-time supervisor. Failure to successfully complete the trial period may result in terminion of employment. If appointed to a temporary position, management may have the discretion of converting the position to permanent depending upon funding and staffing allocion. Qualificions Applicants must have demonstred experience as listed below. This requirement is according to the AO Classificion, Compension, and Recruitment Systems which include interpretive guidance and reference to the OPM Opering Manual for Qualificion Standards for General Schedule Positions.

Specialized Experience:

Applicants must have least one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience in each of the following: Mission-critical IT modernizion initiives including coordining with stakeholders to resolve technical issues, assessing system security impacts, and implementing protective measures for high value assets to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of enterprise informion technology systems. Ensuring compliance with federal informion security and privacy requirements including implementing and assessing Nional Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publicion (NIST

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) controls; supporting authority to opere (ATO) processes; and coordining cross-functional security, audit, and compliance efforts to address vulnerabilities, incidents, and risks to maintain IT system operions and ensure continual security posture improvement. Leading cross functional teams in the planning, operion, and continuous improvement of federal informion systems to ensure secure system design, configurion management, vulnerability remediion, and alignment with NIST and the Federal Risk and Authorizion Management Program (FedRAMP) requirements for federal IT systems including Software as a Service (SaaS) and Plform as a Service (PaaS) solutions th meet functional, non-functional, contractual and budget requirements. One of the following certificions is highly desired for this position: Certified Informion Security Manager (CISM) Certified Informion Systems Auditor (CISA) Certified Informion Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Preferred qualificions include: Experience leading technical change management in the context of software development, software security, infrastructure, or plform services in reguled environments. Familiarity with vulnerability management workflows and remediion governance across multiple engineering teams. Strong documention discipline for change records, approvals, and verificion evidence. Experience working in multi-pod agile delivery models with coordined cadences and releases. Experience working in cross functional multi-disciplinary environments. Demonstred problem-solving and communicions skills. Educion This position does not have an educion qualificion requirement. Additional informion The AO is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. We will review your resume and supporting documention and compare this informion to your responses on the occupional questionnaire to determine if you meet the minimum qualificions for this job. If you meet the minimum qualificions for this job, we will evalue your applicion package, to assess the quality, depth, and complexity of your accomplishments, experience, and educion as they rele to the requirements listed in this vacancy announcement. You should be aware th your rings are subject to evaluion and verificion. If a determinion is made th you have red yourself higher than is supported by your resume and/or narrive responses, you assigned a ring commensure to your described experience. Failure to submit the mandory narrive responses will result in not receiving full considerion and/or ring credit. Delibere tempts to falsify informion may be grounds for not selecting you, withdrawing an offer of employment, or dismissal after being employed. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required documents Required Documents Help For this job announcement the following documents and/or informion are required: Resume

• Any written form you choose to describe your job-reled qualificions (two page limit). Citizenship
• Include country of citizenship on resume. Notificion of Personnel Action (SF-50)
• All applicants outside of the AO must submit a copy of your lest SF-50 to verify current or former Federal employment stus. Veterans Preference documention
• Certifice of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD Form 214), if applicable Applicion for 10-Point Veteran Preference (SF-15) and an official stement, ded 1991 or ler, from the Department of Veterans Affairs or from a branch of the Armed Forces, certifying to the veteran's present receipt of compension.

Proof of CISM, CISA, or CISSP certificion, if applicable. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help To apply for this position, you must complete the online applicion and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 05/19/2026 to receive considerion. To begin, click Apply Online to access an online applicion. Follow the prompts to select your USAJOBS resume and/or other supporting documents. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account or you may need to cree a new account. You taken to an online applicion. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention, and submit the applicion. You will receive an email notificion when your applicion has been received for the announcement. To verify the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account, https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login , select the Applicion Stu s link and then select the More Informion link for this position. The Applicion Stus page will display the stus of your applicion, the documention received and processed, and your responses submitted to the online applicion. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. Click the following link to view and print the occupional questionnaire https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12958683 . Agency contact informion Heher Tyndall-Best Phone (202) 502-3800 heher_best@ao.uscourts.gov Address Case Management Modernizion Program Office One Columbus Circle, NE Washington, DC 20544 US Next steps After a review of your complete applicion is made, you notified of your ring and referral to the hiring official if determined qualified. If further evaluion or interviews are required, you contacted. Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help For this job announcement the following documents and/or informion are required: Resume

• Any written form you choose to describe your job-reled qualificions (two page limit). Citizenship
• Include country of citizenship on resume. Notificion of Personnel Action (SF-50)
• All applicants outside of the AO must submit a copy of your lest SF-50 to verify current or former Federal employment stus. Veterans Preference documention
• Certifice of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD Form 214), if applicable Applicion for 10-Point Veteran Preference (SF-15) and an official stement, ded 1991 or ler, from the Department of Veterans Affairs or from a branch of the Armed Forces, certifying to the veteran's present receipt of compension.

Proof of CISM, CISA, or CISSP certificion, if applicable. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help To apply for this position, you must complete the online applicion and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 05/19/2026 to receive considerion. To begin, click Apply Online to access an online applicion. Follow the prompts to select your USAJOBS resume and/or other supporting documents. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account or you may need to cree a new account. You taken to an online applicion. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention, and submit the applicion. You will receive an email notificion when your applicion has been received for the announcement. To verify the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account, https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login , select the Applicion Stu s link and then select the More Informion link for this position. The Applicion Stus page will display the stus of your applicion, the documention received and processed, and your responses submitted to the online applicion. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. Click the following link to view and print the occupional questionnaire https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12958683 . Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Heher Tyndall-Best Phone (202) 502-3800 heher_best@ao.uscourts.gov Address Case Management Modernizion Program Office One Columbus Circle, NE Washington, DC 20544 US Next steps After a review of your complete applicion is made, you notified of your ring and referral to the hiring official if determined qualified. If further evaluion or interviews are required, you contacted. Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/12/2026 to 05/19/2026 This job will close when we have received 150 applicions which may be sooner than the closing de. Salary $102,415

• $191,965 per year Pay scale & grade AD 00 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Washington, DC Remote job No Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Travel Required Occasional travel
• You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Temporary
• 4 years Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential None Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number 26-CMM-12958683 Control number 868817500