Position: IT Specialist, GS-2210-14

Division: Information Management Division

Unit: Technology Innovation Section

Location: Winchester, Virginia

Working Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (flexible)

Salary: GS-14 $132,368.00-$172,075.00

Full Performance Level: GS-14

Number of Positions Available: 1

Duration: Full Time/Permanent

Additional selections may be made from this announcement to fill positions within the same division when the position includes substantially the same duties, responsibilities, and qualifications.

In order to recruit and retain highly qualified candidates, selectees may be eligible for 25% recruitment incentive. Prior to receiving a recruitment incentive, an employee must sign a written service agreement to complete a specific period of employment with the FBI at the new duty station.

Key Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Must be able to obtain an SCI clearance
• Selectee will be required to complete form FD-887, Request for Access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)

Major Duties

• The incumbent serves as a principal member of the integrated technical project team responsible for conceptualizing, designing, developing, and deploying the automated information systems.
• The incumbent is the Data Base Administrator (DBA) for the IFCC, responsible for the design, development and implementation of major new advances in state-of-the-art database environment to focus specifically on Oracle software to solve FBI support requirements.
• Responsible for the identification and implementation of major new advances in state-of-the-art computer science and database technological innovations uniquely applied to solve cyber investigative and support requirements within the arena of systems and networks.
• Responsible for coordinating with application programmers to provide appropriate Structured Query Language (SQL) calls to obtain needed data from the SQL databases.
• Maintains statistics/on database usage and performance, and generates statistics for use by case managers and for presentation on the Web page regarding database content.
• Plans strategy for and directs activities for systems, which includes defining requirements, project objectives, systems plan documentation, resource estimates, accomplishments, benefits and schedules.
• Assigns project functions and tasks to lower-graded team member(s) based on skills, abilities and overall objectives.

Mission Statement:

The mission of the FBI is to protect the American People and uphold the Constitution of the United States.

Qualifications and Evaluations

Please make sure your specialized experience/requirement(s) can be identified in your resume. Applicants must meet the qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Your application will be evaluated and rated under the FBI’s Candidate Rating Procedures. Your resume and supporting documentation will be used to determine whether you meet the job qualifications listed in this announcement and will be compared to your responses to the online assessment questionnaire. High self-assessment in the vacancy questions that is not supported by information in your resume, and/or supporting documents may eliminate you from Most Competitive status.

Your application will then be placed in one of three categories: Most Competitive, Competitive, or Least Competitive. Names of candidates in the Most Competitive category will be sent to the hiring official for employment consideration. Veterans’ Preference will be applied.

All applicants will be rated on the following Competencies :

• Customer Service
• Information Management
• Technology Awareness
• Communication
• Organizing and Planning
• Problem Solving/Judgement
• Computer Languages

Selective Placement Factor: Do you have experience working across multiple platforms of operating systems and servers in MS Structured Query Language (PL/SQL and SQL) and Oracle products?

Specialized Experience (SE):

GS-14: Applicant must possess at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 grade level. SE is defined as follows:

• Ability to lead, direct and coordinate work efforts to fulfill project requirements in a timely and successful manner.
• Knowledge of the current direction and management of Automatic Data Processing (ADP) projects across the system life cycle characterized by technological complexity to address critical objectives in the development of new computer science/analytical techniques.
• Detailed knowledge of Oracle products and extensions, to investigate, analyze and evaluate new Oracle products for possible future project integration.
• Ability to foresee and correct design and implementation problems before they cause system failures.
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience working with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or other cloud providers.
• Experiences with cloud tools such as AWS Lambda, Azure DevOps, or containerization tools.

Desired Skills

Desired skills are NOT mandatory and will NOT be utilized to minimally qualify applicants.

Desired Skills are: Experience working across multiple platforms or operating systems and servers in Oracle Products.

Have knowledge of cloud-based databases such as Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, or Aurora.

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