• Job Description

  Req#: 824203300
  Serves as Lead Engineer for NASA-wide Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM) architecture services and infrastructure integration for business information systems, mission information systems and initiatives that require ICAM services. Provides strategic ICAM engineering leadership, with oversight of contract deliverables for dedicated ICAM engineering support and ensure enhancements and new services align with ICAM roadmap, risks, and budget.
  
  Duties
  
  
  • Collaborate with Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM) Chief and team, Cyber Security and Policy Division, Information System Security Officers, Security Operations Center, Service Lines, Agency Level Offices, and Mission organizations.
  • Provide leadership and strategic direction to the engineering team ICAM Security Infrastructure adhering to governance, designing and integrating the Agency authentication and authorization infrastructure into NASA business and Mission systems.
  • Identify and follow governance to develop new security architecture standards, including for secure cloud service adoption, and ensure these standards/frameworks are aligned with overall business strategy. Work with key stakeholders to gain approval.
  • Determine and review ICAM application business architecture to engineer software and hardware solutions that will meet NASA, Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), and Federal requirements.
  • Maintain a keen understanding of industry trends, application and system security threats, and associated patterns and techniques used to mitigate associate threats across one or more enterprise systems.
  • Coordinate with Workplace and Collaboration Services (WCS) leadership, to ensure service enhancements and new services align with ICAM roadmap, risks, and budget. Provide contractor oversight to include management of their deliverables.
  • Provide high-level analytical expertise for a variety of complex assignments of enterprise-wide scope, including but not limited to, advice on project costs, design concepts, or design changes, including representation on requisite governance boards.
  • Evaluate security architectures and designs to determine the adequacy of security design and architecture proposed or provided. Translate proposed capabilities into technical requirements.
  • Foster a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence and innovation. Champion NASA's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility to create an environment that promotes a commitment to safety, integrity, and teamwork.
  
  
  Requirements
  
  
  • This position is open to U.S. citizens, nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
  • Position subject to pre-employment background security investigation or higher-level clearance. Investigation/Clearance may differ and be required based on the duty location/NASA Center requirements.
  • You must meet qualifications requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
  • Financial Disclosure, Drug Testing, Bargaining Unit and/or the Travel Requirements for this position may differ and be required based on the duty location/NASA Center requirements.
  • Selected applicant(s) must be assigned to a duty location listed on the announcement.
  • This position may require a one-year probationary period.
  
  
  Qualifications
  
  
  Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.
  
  To qualify for GS-15, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 level
  • Developing and communicating authoritative enterprise security architecture that addresses risk and aligns an organization's mission and business outcomes;
  • Developing, implementing, and monitoring Zero Trust authentication and authorization architecture which leverages industry recognized risk management frameworks (e.g., NIST Cybersecurity Framework [800-53, 800-63, 800-116], ISO 31000, COBIT 5, Factor Analysis of Information Risk, and/or Threat Assessment and Remediation Analysis) to ensure required maturity of each deployed Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) solution;
  • Working with mission/business partners to provide advice and guidance on authoritative enterprise security paradigms, including establishing a hybrid cloud security architecture, with Zero Trust capabilities across multiple platforms and tools such as Microsoft O365 and Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft Active Directory, Public Key Infrastructure, CA Site minder, conditional access rules, and Microsoft Purview information protection.
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  IF you are qualifying based on experience, you MUST also have IT-related experience demonstrating each of the four competencies listed below:
  1. Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
  2. Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services.
  3. Oral Communication - Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
  4. Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.
  Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job. NASA prohibits the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or AI-assisted tool in drafting application and assessment responses. Please visit https://www.nasa.gov/careers/how-to-apply/#Artificial-Intelligence to review NASA's guidance on the use of AI tools during the application process.

• About the company

  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and space research.

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