IT Specialist (Systems Administration)

Federal Aviation Administration •

Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States

Position Type: Contractor

Job Description:

Incumbent serves as an IT Specialist for the En Route & Oceanic 2nd Level Engineering Group.

Duties

The incumbent is responsible for providing technical assistance and guidance from the William J. Hughes Technical Center to En Route, Oceanic, and Decision Support field facilities. This technical assistance involves support to the resolution of site issues or problems, the installation of system modifications, and site restoration activities as required. This position is critical to ensuring the safe and efficient operation of the National Airspace System (NAS). As such, incumbent participates with a team of technical representatives in the development, enhancement, planning, conducting, documenting and maintenance of various Air Traffic systems under Second Level Engineerings purview.

These activities may include providing technical assistance to field personnel for the resolution of system issues including support to NAS monitoring and the Second Level Engineering Help Desk. The principal duties in this area are to provide System Administration support to various Air Traffic support systems laboratories located at William J. Hughes Technical Center and field facilities spread across the country. Duties will include designing, installing, troubleshooting, maintaining, and providing innovative solutions for modernizing engineering systems to support the National Airspace System. In addition, the incumbent is responsible to ensure timely correction of the immediate problem(s) and to take steps necessary to avoid future occurrences. This requires that the incumbent coordinates activities with system engineers, system leads, and data systems personnel and ensures the logging of issues in the appropriate issue tracking data bases. The incumbent is also required to ensure issue information is communicated proper1y to all appropriate parties including headquarters, region, and upper management as required.

Technical duties for this position include review and validation of system documentation to provide technical feedback to ensure the accuracy and usability of all information. Working with cyber security team to analyze and update security data calls, user account administration, data backup and recovery, supporting security audits and scans, operating system updates, system and network monitoring, security patching, installing software and hardware, disaster recovery planning, troubleshooting issues and outages, basic network switching and routing, configuration management and keeping technical leads posted with daily/weekly activities.
Incumbent will perform a mixture of routine and varying assignments under the limited direction of a manager, team leader, or more experienced technical specialist. Acts as an individual contributor and/or member of a team. Travel to sites as required for troubleshooting and resolution of site issues may be required. Applies experience and detailed technical knowledge applicable to his/her discipline to plan and accomplish assignments. Typical assignments may include system administration; collecting, recording and analyzing data/information; identifying problems; performing troubleshooting and investigation; and initiating compliance and enforcement actions.

Job Requirements:
Requirements Conditions of Employment

US Citizenship is required.
Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
Must submit an SF50 (See Required Documents).

Qualifications

To view the complete qualification standard, applicants should reference – U.S. Office of Personnel Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Information Technology (IT) Management Series, 2210 (Alternative A):

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/2200/information-technology-it-management-series-2210-alternative-a/

To qualify for this position you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-G, FG/GS-5-9. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.

Specialized Experience is: Experience providing technical assistance and system administration support in the resolution of issues in support of a large IT enterprise system.

Applicants should include examples of specialized experience in their work history.

Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.

Interviews: Some, all or none of the applicants may be interviewed.

Selection may be made from this announcement or from: ACT-ATO-25-AJM2513-93325

How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

IMPORTANT: Applicants may be rated on the extent and quality of experience, education, and training relevant to the duties of the position(s). All answers provided in the on-line process must be substantiated. Ensure that your application package/resume supports your responses.

Required Documents

Notification of Personnel Action (SF-50).

Only supplemental documentation, e.g. transcripts or veteran's documentation will be accepted in combination with your on-line application. These documents must be uploaded or emailed to jennifer.a.lowery@faa.gov on or before the closing date of this announcement. All submitted documents should reference the announcement number.

Applicants claiming eligibility for the Expanded Veterans Hiring Opportunity (EVHO), MUST submit a DD Form 214 reflecting character of service to verify eligibility by the closing date of the announcement as requested by the Human Resource Office. Eligibility for EVHO will be considered based on applicable documentation submitted by the closing date.

If you are a current or former Federal employee (including a current FAA employee), you MUST provide a copy of your SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action) containing information in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organization of record by the closing date of the announcement. You may fax your SF-50 or upload it into the on-line application. If faxing the SF-50, please ensure you include the vacancy announcement number on the faxed copy.

If you are a current Federal employee and need a current copy of your SF-50, please contact your personnel office. If you are an FAA employee, you can access and print your SF-50 from the eOPF system https://eopf.opm.gov/dot/. If you are a former Federal employee, you can obtain a copy of your SF-50 by writing the National Personnel Records Center Annex, 1411 Boulder Boulevard, Valmeyer, IL 62295. Additional information is available from this link: https://www.archives.gov/st-louis/opf.

Expanded Veterans Hiring Opportunity (EVHO) are preference eligibles and veterans who are honorably discharged from the Armed Forces after completing at least three (3) years of continuous active service. Applicants claiming eligibility for EVHO, MUST submit a DD Form 214 reflecting character of service to verify eligibility by the closing date of the announcement as requested by the Human Resource Office. Eligibility for EVHO will be considered based on applicable documentation submitted by the closing date.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.

Salary Range: $80,481 - $124,753

Job Ident #: 819641500

(Job and company information not to be copied, shared, scraped, or otherwise disseminated/distributed without explicit consent of JSfirm, LLC)

IT Specialist (Systems Administration)

Company Overview