Depending on your career level and role, DHS Cybersecurity Service employees in the Leadership Career Track, with a technical capability in Physical, Embedded, and Control Systems Security (PECSS), may apply their expertise to perform a range of tasks, including:

• Overseeing and/or leading Department best practices, security guidance, and/or documentation of "purpose-built interconnected systems," such as industrial control systems (ICS), physical systems, and embedded systems
• Customizing communications for different levels of leadership and different target audiences regarding designs, protocols, and physical configurations of "purpose-built interconnected systems," such as industrial control systems (ICS), physical systems, and embedded systems -And defining and/or implementing comprehensive countermeasures to detect threats and maintain the overall cybersecurity posture of these systems
• Leading and/or overseeing the development and tracking of technical and nontechnical risk and vulnerability assessments of Information and Operational Technology (IOT) environments, such as ICS/Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)/Distributed Control Systems (DCS), local computing environment, network and infrastructure, enclave boundary, supporting infrastructure, and application
• Assisting DHS leadership in making strategy or policy decisions for securing and assessing information and IOT environments and influencing and defending policy and program decisions
• Actively engaging with stakeholders from multiple organizations to monitor and lead the design/build/configure/operate/maintain cycle of interconnected systems, and proactively increasing security situational awareness of, and minimizing risks to, DHS and/or Federal-wide physical or embedded systems and facilities (e.g., heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), telecommunications, wireless technologies
• Preparing, overseeing, and/or organizing collaborative efforts for assessing effectiveness of security controls through penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, or security architecture review on enterprise network or control systems assets to improve understanding of organizational and/or National cybersecurity risks
• Collaborating with internal and external DHS stakeholders and/or National experts in the global control systems community to architect and design enterprise cybersecurity solutions and facilitate implementation of security standards
• Leading a team(s) in cybersecurity risk assessment, automated information sharing, threat analysis, vulnerability management, and network defense to enable holistic, integrated views of security threats to an organization, the Department, or the Nation's security posture
• Overseeing assignments and projects and providing ongoing guidance and assistance ensuring conformance to applicable technical standards, policies, or procedures

This position is in the Leadership Track across a range of career levels. Employees in this career track generally:

• Have between 5-15 years of cybersecurity work experience.
• Have between 0-5 years of cybersecurity leadership experience.
• Are capable of serving as a seasoned cybersecurity manager who oversees multiple DHS or Federal cybersecurity programs or DHS organizations, including employees and contract resources, through subordinate managers.

• Understand designs, protocols, and physical configurations of purpose-built interconnected systems such as industrial control systems, physical systems, and embedded systems.
• Define and implement comprehensive countermeasures to detect threats and maintain the overall cybersecurity posture of these systems.

DHS Cybersecurity Service employees start at career levels and salaries matching their experience and expertise. In recruiting for this opportunity, DHS may hire employees at higher or lower career levels and associated salaries. To learn more about DHS Cybersecurity Service career tracks and levels, visit our application portal.

This position is focused on Physical, Embedded, and Control Systems Security (PECSS).

DHS Cybersecurity Service jobs are structured cybersecurity specializations - called technical capabilities. To learn more about technical capabilities, visit our application portal.

DESIRED CERTIFICATION:

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP)
• Security+
• ISA/IEC Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Specialist

• Tools: Wireshark, Nmap, Tenable, Defender for IoT, Kali, Cobalt Strike, Splunk Technologies, network infrastructure, boundary protection devices, enterprise LAN/WAN, ICS/SCADA
• Industries: FCEB Enterprise, SLTT, ICS/OT environments of critical infrastructure sectors