IT Specialist (Network Services) Department of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis Multiple Divisions Summary This vacancy is for an IT Specialist (Network Services) position in the Office of the Chief Informion Officer loced the Bureau of Economic Analysis. This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other IT Specialist (Network Services), ZP-2210-4, positions within the Bureau of Economic Analysis in the same geographical locion with the same qualificions and specialized experience. Learn more about this agency Summary This vacancy is for an IT Specialist (Network Services) position in the Office of the Chief Informion Officer loced the Bureau of Economic Analysis. This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other IT Specialist (Network Services), ZP-2210-4, positions within the Bureau of Economic Analysis in the same geographical locion with the same qualificions and specialized experience. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Locion FEW vacancies in the following locion: Suitland, MD No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $121,785 - $187,093 per year Pay scale & grade ZP 4 Promotion potential None Learn more about pay scale and grade Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Not required Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series 2210 Informion Technology Management Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test No Security clearance Other Position sensitivity and risk Modere Risk (MR) Jobs require a background check and some require a security clearance . The type depends on the job. Background check type Credentialing Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number 26-BEA-OCIO-13053564-DHA-SB Control number 883097500 This job is open to Help The public U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants. Clarificion from the agency All qualified United Stes citizens. Duties Help Provides administrion and ongoing design, engineering, and support of BEA's network infrastructure, including Cisco-based on-premises networks (e.g., routers, switches, wireless technologies) and Microsoft Azure cloud networking solutions. Provides administrion and support of Cisco Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) phone systems, Microsoft Teams Phone functionality, and network security and logging applicions. Maintains IT security and network documention and supports implemention of federal IT security laws, regulions, standards, and guidelines, ensuring timely remediion of critical compliance findings identified during annual audits. Requirements Help Conditions of employment Applicants must meet all qualificion requirements by the closing de of this announcement. U.S. Citizen Suitable for Federal employment. Registered for Selective Service if applicable. (www.sss.gov) A one-year probionary period may be required. Relocion expenses may not be paid. This is a

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unit position. Qualificions For all positions individuals must have IT-reled experience demonstring each of the four competencies listed below. The employing agency is responsible for identifying the specific level of proficiency required for each competency each grade level based on the requirements of the position being filled. Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about tending to detail. Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (th is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products th your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizions outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide informion or assistance, resolve their problems, or sisfy their expections; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services. Oral Communicion - Expresses informion (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nure of the informion (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentions; listens to others, tends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriely. Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of informion; uses sound judgment to genere and evalue alternives, and to make recommendions.

AND Specialized Experience:

For the Band IV (GS-13) , you must have one year of experience a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the Band III (GS-12) in the Federal service.

Experience for this position includes:

Administering, monitoring, securing, and troubleshooting enterprise TCP/IP-based LAN and WAN environments, including IPv6 and DNS services; configuring and hardening network infrastructure to protect against security thres and vulnerabilities; supporting and securing on-premises and cloud-based networking environments; supporting enterprise voice technologies, including Cisco voice infrastructure or Microsoft Teams Voice solutions; and using network logging and monitoring tools, such as Splunk, to evalue performance, identify anomalous or malicious activity, troubleshoot network issues, and support security incident response. An active Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) certificion, or higher, and a cloud networking certificion are preferred.

Educion:

Educion cannot be substituted this band/grade level. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (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 th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer. After you submit this applicion, you will receive an e-mail informing you th a USA Hire assessment is required. You will have 48 hours from the closing de of this announcement, 09/16/2026, to complete the assessment as this assessment is part of your applicion. Additional informion The Department of Commerce provides reasonable accommodions to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodion for any part of the applicion and hiring process, please notify the Human Resources Office. The decision on granting reasonable accommodion on a case-by-case basis. TTY users can contact the Human Resources Office via the Federal Relay Service, 1-800-877-8339. Individuals who have received a Voluntary Separion Incentive Payment, otherwise known as a buyout, must repay th incentive if they are reemployed by the Federal Government within five years of separion. This announcement is issued under "direct-hire" authority. Consistent with 5 U.S.0 3304(a)(3) and OPM regulions (5 CFR 337 Subpart B) on direct-hire: All candides who meet all the qualificion and other eligibility requirements may be referred for considerion. Competitive examining rules providing for ring and ranking and veterans' preference do not apply. 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 . 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. Your resume, optional cover letter and supporting documention reviewed to determine if you meet the minimum qualificion requirements for the position. Under the provisions of the Direct-Hire Authority (DHA), ring, ranking and veterans' preference does not apply. All applicants who meet the minimum qualificion requirements, as defined in the job opportunity announcement, referred for selection considerion. While veterans' preference does not apply in DHA, preference eligible are encouraged to submit their supporting documention (DD-214 sting disposition of discharge or character of service, VA letter, SF-15, etc). You assessed on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics): Accountability Attention to

Detail Customer Service Decision Making Flexibility Influencing/Negotiing Integrity/Honesty Interpersonal Skills Learning Reading Comprehension Reasoning Self-Management Stress Tolerance Teamwork Online Assessment:

Applicants must complete the online USA Hire Competency Based Assessments measuring critical general competencies required to perform the job. Examples used in the assessment may include general situions not directly reled to this position. Oversting your qualificions and/or experience in your applicion merials or applicion questionnaire may result in your removal from considerion. Cheing on an assessment may also result in your removal from considerion.

CTAP and ICTAP candides:

CTAP and ICTAP candides eligible for selection priority if it is determined th they have exceeded the minimum qualificions for the position by taining least a ring of 85 out of 100. Informion about CTAP and ICTAP eligibility is on the Office of Personnel Management's Career Transition Resources website : The Employee's Guide to Career Transition . We recommend th you preview the online questions for this announcement before you start the applicion process. Do NOT include the following types of informion in your applicion if included on your resume you will not be considered for this position : Social Security Number (SSN) De of Birth (DOB) Photos of yourself Personal informion: such as age, gender, religious affiliion, etc. To preview the applicion questionnaire, click the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13053564 . 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 . 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 A complete applicion consists of the following:

Resume:

Your resume must not exceed two (2) pages. If your resume exceeds the two-page limit, you deemed disqualified and removed from considerion. Your resume must include your educional and relevant work experience for the position for which you are applying to include the title and des (mm/yy) of employment along with the number of hours worked per week. If your resume does not contain this informion, your applicion may be marked as incomplete, and you will not receive considerion for this position.

Veterans' Preference Documention:

Please indice on your resume the type of veterans' preference you are claiming and provide the approprie supporting documention (DD-214 sting disposition of discharge or character of service, VA letter, SF-15, etc.) to valide your claim. Previous versions of the SF-15 will not be accepted. For more informion regarding eligibility requirements, please go to: http://www.fedshirevets.gov/job/vetpref/index.aspx . Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) and Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) documention, if applicable: CTAP applicants MUST submit the following documents: A copy of your RIF separion notice, notice of proposed removal for declining a directed geographic relocion outside of the local commuting area; a Certifice of Expected Separion (CES); or certificion th you are in a surplus organizion or occupion (this could be a position abolishment letter, a notice of eligibility for discontinued service retirement, or similar notice); A copy of your SF-50 "Notificion of Personnel Action", noting current position, grade/band level, and duty locion; A copy of your lest performance appraisal including your ring; and Any documention from your bureau/opering unit th shows your current promotion potential. ICTAP applicants MUST submit the following documents: A copy of your RIF separion notice, notice of proposed removal for declining a directed geographic relocion outside of the local commuting area, notice of disability annuity terminion, certificion from your former agency th it cannot place you after your recovery from a work-reled compensable injury; or certificion from the Nional Guard Bureau or Military Department th you are eligible for disability retirement. A copy of your SF-50 "Notificion of Personnel Action", documenting your RIF separion, noting your position, grade/band level, and duty locion, and/or Agency certificion of inability to place you through RPL, etc.; A copy of your lest performance appraisal including your ring; and Any documention from your agency th shows your current promotion potential.

Educion Documention:

If this position requires proof of higher educion, or you are substituting educion for experience), you must submit an unofficial transcript or a list of courses th includes the following informion: name of accredited institution, grades earned, completion des, and quarter and semester hours earned. This also applies to Bureau of Economic Analysis employees. Educion completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. Please refer to OPM's Qualificion Policy for more informion. You are not required to submit official documents this time; copies are sufficient. Special Instructions for

Foreign Educion:

Qualifying educion from colleges and universities in foreign countries must be evalued in terms of equivalency to th acquired in U.S. colleges and universities. Applicants educed in whole or in part in foreign countries must submit sufficient evidence, including transcripts, to an accredited prive organizion for an equivalency evaluion of course work and degree. You must provide a copy of the letter containing the results of the equivalency evaluion with a course-by-course listing along with your applicion. Failure to provide such documention when requested will result in lost considerion. For further informion on the evaluion of foreign educion, refer to the U.S. Department of Educion's web site Academic and Professional Mobility | Internional Affairs Office (ed.gov) .

NOTE:

You will not be considered if you fail to provide all required documents. Resume 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 Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and submit all required documention as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 09/16/2026 to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention. Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing de. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you notified after submitting your applicion. The notificion provided in your applicion submission screen and via email. The notificion will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this applicion" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside about two (2) hours to take the USA Hire Assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue ler, you can re-use your unique assessment link. Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments reused for one year (in most cases) from the de you complete an assessment. If future applicions you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses automically reused. Visit the USA Hire Applicant Resource Center for practice assessments and assessment preparion resources. To upde your applicion, including supporting documention: During the announcement open period, return to your

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account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus: Visit USAJOBS Help Center - How to see your applicion and job stus . Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply online; however, if you are unable to apply online, please email the agency contact. Agency contact informion Shirell Briscoe Phone 301-763-1307 shirell.a.briscoe@census.gov Address Bureau of Economic Analysis 4600 Silver Hill Road Washington, DC 20233 US Next steps You notified of your applicion stus through USAJOBS four points during the hiring process, as applicable. You can check the stus of your applicion by accessing the USAJOBS website http://usajobs.gov and clicking on "Applicions." The stus visible next to the corresponding positions. The four points of notificion are: Applicion Received or Applicion Incomplete; Minimum Qualificion Requirement Met or Minimum Qualificion Requirement Not Met; Referred or Not Referred; and Selected or Not Selected. By submitting your applicion, you are certifying the accuracy of the informion contained in your applicion. If you make a false stement in any part of your applicion, you may not be hired; you may be termined after you begin work; or, you may be fined or jailed. After making a tentive job offer, we will conduct a suitability/security background investigion. You required to submit official documention prior to appointment. The agency will then verify the informion provided on your applicion (i.e., degree, veterans' preference, disability, etc.). 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 A complete applicion consists of the following:

Resume:

Your resume must not exceed two (2) pages. If your resume exceeds the two-page limit, you deemed disqualified and removed from considerion. Your resume must include your educional and relevant work experience for the position for which you are applying to include the title and des (mm/yy) of employment along with the number of hours worked per week. If your resume does not contain this informion, your applicion may be marked as incomplete, and you will not receive considerion for this position.

Veterans' Preference Documention:

Please indice on your resume the type of veterans' preference you are claiming and provide the approprie supporting documention (DD-214 sting disposition of discharge or character of service, VA letter, SF-15, etc.) to valide your claim. Previous versions of the SF-15 will not be accepted. For more informion regarding eligibility requirements, please go to: http://www.fedshirevets.gov/job/vetpref/index.aspx . Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) and Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) documention, if applicable: CTAP applicants MUST submit the following documents: A copy of your RIF separion notice, notice of proposed removal for declining a directed geographic relocion outside of the local commuting area; a Certifice of Expected Separion (CES); or certificion th you are in a surplus organizion or occupion (this could be a position abolishment letter, a notice of eligibility for discontinued service retirement, or similar notice); A copy of your SF-50 "Notificion of Personnel Action", noting current position, grade/band level, and duty locion; A copy of your lest performance appraisal including your ring; and Any documention from your bureau/opering unit th shows your current promotion potential. ICTAP applicants MUST submit the following documents: A copy of your RIF separion notice, notice of proposed removal for declining a directed geographic relocion outside of the local commuting area, notice of disability annuity terminion, certificion from your former agency th it cannot place you after your recovery from a work-reled compensable injury; or certificion from the Nional Guard Bureau or Military Department th you are eligible for disability retirement. A copy of your SF-50 "Notificion of Personnel Action", documenting your RIF separion, noting your position, grade/band level, and duty locion, and/or Agency certificion of inability to place you through RPL, etc.; A copy of your lest performance appraisal including your ring; and Any documention from your agency th shows your current promotion potential.

Educion Documention:

If this position requires proof of higher educion, or you are substituting educion for experience), you must submit an unofficial transcript or a list of courses th includes the following informion: name of accredited institution, grades earned, completion des, and quarter and semester hours earned. This also applies to Bureau of Economic Analysis employees. Educion completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. Please refer to OPM's Qualificion Policy for more informion. You are not required to submit official documents this time; copies are sufficient. Special Instructions for

Foreign Educion:

Qualifying educion from colleges and universities in foreign countries must be evalued in terms of equivalency to th acquired in U.S. colleges and universities. Applicants educed in whole or in part in foreign countries must submit sufficient evidence, including transcripts, to an accredited prive organizion for an equivalency evaluion of course work and degree. You must provide a copy of the letter containing the results of the equivalency evaluion with a course-by-course listing along with your applicion. Failure to provide such documention when requested will result in lost considerion. For further informion on the evaluion of foreign educion, refer to the U.S. Department of Educion's web site Academic and Professional Mobility | Internional Affairs Office (ed.gov) .

NOTE:

You will not be considered if you fail to provide all required documents. Resume 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 Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and submit all required documention as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 09/16/2026 to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention. Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing de. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you notified after submitting your applicion. The notificion provided in your applicion submission screen and via email. The notificion will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this applicion" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside about two (2) hours to take the USA Hire Assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue ler, you can re-use your unique assessment link. Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments reused for one year (in most cases) from the de you complete an assessment. If future applicions you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses automically reused. Visit the USA Hire Applicant Resource Center for practice assessments and assessment preparion resources. To upde your applicion, including supporting documention: During the announcement open period, return to your

USA JOBS

account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus: Visit USAJOBS Help Center - How to see your applicion and job stus . Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply online; however, if you are unable to apply online, please email the agency contact. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Shirell Briscoe Phone 301-763-1307 shirell.a.briscoe@census.gov Address Bureau of Economic Analysis 4600 Silver Hill Road Washington, DC 20233 US Next steps You notified of your applicion stus through USAJOBS four points during the hiring process, as applicable. You can check the stus of your applicion by accessing the USAJOBS website http://usajobs.gov and clicking on "Applicions." The stus visible next to the corresponding positions. The four points of notificion are: Applicion Received or Applicion Incomplete; Minimum Qualificion Requirement Met or Minimum Qualificion Requirement Not Met; Referred or Not Referred; and Selected or Not Selected. By submitting your applicion, you are certifying the accuracy of the informion contained in your applicion. If you make a false stement in any part of your applicion, you may not be hired; you may be termined after you begin work; or, you may be fined or jailed. After making a tentive job offer, we will conduct a suitability/security background investigion. You required to submit official documention prior to appointment. The agency will then verify the informion provided on your applicion (i.e., degree, veterans' preference, disability, etc.). 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 Locion FEW vacancies in the following locion: Suitland, MD No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $121,785 - $187,093 per year Pay scale & grade ZP 4 Promotion potential None Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Not required Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test No Security clearance Other Position sensitivity and risk Jobs require a and some require a . The type depends on the job. Background check type Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number 26-BEA-OCIO-13053564-DHA-SB Control number 883097500