IT SPECIALIST (NETWORK/SYSADMIN).
Naval Intelligence Activity · Town Center, MD · 3 wk ago
Information TechnologyFull-time
We need to produce HTML fragment with sections: Duties (maybe "Responsibilities"? The posting has "Duties" repeated. Use for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include sections only if posting has real specific content. The posting includes Duties (multiple paragraphs), Requirements (conditions of employment), Qualifications (competencies, specialized experience), Education (N/A - we should not include Education if N/A). Benefits: mentions "A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package..." but no specifics. It says "Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered." That's vague, not specific. According to rule: never create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It does not list specific benefits, just generic statement. So we should not include Benefits. Pay: not mentioned. Schedule: not mentioned. Skills: not explicit separate section; but we could embed within Qualifications or Duties. The instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We need to decide which headings to use based on content. We have Duties (could map to Responsibilities). We have Requirements (conditions of employment). We have Qualifications (competencies, specialized experience). We might also have Skills? Not explicit. Could combine skills within Qualifications. We'll output sections: Responsibilities (for Duties), Requirements, Qualifications. Possibly also "About the role"? Not present. The posting starts with "Duties You will serve as a Senior System Administrator..." So we can use
for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include sections only if posting has real specific content. The posting includes Duties (multiple paragraphs), Requirements (conditions of employment), Qualifications (competencies, specialized experience), Education (N/A - we should not include Education if N/A). Benefits: mentions "A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package..." but no specifics. It says "Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered." That's vague, not specific. According to rule: never create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It does not list specific benefits, just generic statement. So we should not include Benefits. Pay: not mentioned. Schedule: not mentioned. Skills: not explicit separate section; but we could embed within Qualifications or Duties. The instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We need to decide which headings to use based on content. We have Duties (could map to Responsibilities). We have Requirements (conditions of employment). We have Qualifications (competencies, specialized experience). We might also have Skills? Not explicit. Could combine skills within Qualifications. We'll output sections: Responsibilities (for Duties), Requirements, Qualifications. Possibly also "About the role"? Not present. The posting starts with "Duties You will serve as a Senior System Administrator..." So we can use Responsibilities
for duties. Then Requirements
for conditions of employment (citizenship, clearance, etc). Then Qualifications
for competencies and specialized experience. Also maybe include "Education" but it's N/A, so skip.
We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Must not repeat job title as heading. Must not put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings (none present). Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The posting includes many lines like "Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: Additional qualification information can be found from the following DON DCIPS policy website:" That's boilerplate? It's referencing external sites; maybe we keep? It's not substantive detail about the job; it's just a reference. Might be considered boilerplate. The instruction: remove duplicated lines, and application instructions. The lines about "Additional qualification information can be found from the following..." are not application instructions but references. Might be considered not substantive. Safer to omit them? The rule: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Those lines are not substantive about the job; they are just pointers. Could be considered boilerplate. I'd omit them.
Also need to remove duplicated lines: The posting repeats "Duties" twice; we should combine.
We need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. So for duties we should list each duty as
- . For requirements we list each condition as
- . For qualifications we list competencies and specialized experience maybe as
- . However the qualifications section includes prose describing competencies; we could keep as
for the paragraph describing the four competencies, then a
for the specialized experience bullet points.
Let's extract duties:
From the first block:
- You will serve as a Senior System Administrator, capturing operational requirements from mission stakeholders and translating them into technical solutions across enterprise collaboration, messaging, database, and storage platforms.
- You will coordinate and liaise with program/project managers, systems engineers, developers, and information system security personnel to provide comprehensive IT life-cycle support from architecture planning through operational sustainment.
- You will plan and execute complex engineering assignments to install, configure, patch, migrate, and maintain high-availability Microsoft Exchange messaging systems and enterprise SharePoint farm environments across multi-network security enclaves.
- You will administer, tune, and maintain Microsoft SQL Server instances supporting critical intelligence systems, while managing enterprise storage infrastructure to guarantee high data availability, redundancy, and capacity planning.
- You will diagnose, analyze, and resolve escalated tier-3 hardware, software, and network services issues impacting Exchange, SharePoint, SQL databases, and storage subsystems, implementing root-cause remedies and disaster recovery protocols.
- You will engineer solutions for seamless interoperability and integration across hybrid IT environments, identity and access management directories (Active Directory), and DoD public key infrastructure, ensuring adherence to compliance standards.
- You will conduct stakeholder interviews and workflow assessments to define functional and non-functional requirements for next-generation system upgrades, storage tiering, data migration, and enterprise software deployments.
Then later "Duties In addition to experience demonstrating the four competencies above, your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GG/GS-12) or pay band in the federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector performing duties such as:" then list:
- Plan and execute complex technical assignments across enterprise IT systems and communications infrastructure, including deployment, sustainment, and lifecycle management of multi-tier computing and storage platforms, data workflows, and transmission integrity.
- Diagnose, analyze, and resolve enterprise system incidents involving hardware, software, and Windows server/storage infrastructure; optimize data transfers across network backbones; and engineer solutions to complex interoperability and integration challenges.
- Provide advanced technical assistance and root-cause troubleshooting to system users while conducting interviews, assessments, and workflow analyses to define technical requirements for new or modernized IT systems, services, and hardware.
- Liaise and coordinate with external stakeholders to align enterprise architectures, security compliance, infrastructure roadmaps, and mission-critical IT planning.
These are also duties (specialized experience). Should we combine them under Responsibilities? Probably yes, as they are duties. We'll combine all duty bullets into one list under Responsibilities.
Now Requirements (conditions of employment):
List each condition:
- Must be a US Citizen.
- Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
- Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
- New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
- Must obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance and access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI). Failure to do so may result in the withdrawal of an offer or removal. Indicate the level and date of your clearance in your resume.
- Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana) is required. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or pass the test. You will be subject to random testing.
- You must acknowledge in writing that you are accepting an appointment in the DCIPS (excepted service) which does not confer competitive status, prior to appointment.
- Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
- Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
- This position requires a periodic polygraph examination.
- This position may require a 2-year DCIPS trial period.
- This position has been designated as a Cyber IT/Cybersecurity Workforce position in specialty area 451 (System Administrator).
- As a condition of employment incumbents of the position are required to comply with the DON Cyber IT/CSWF Program requirements of SECNAV M-5239.2, which include:
- 1. Earn and maintain appropriate credentials from the Cyber IT/CSWF Qualification Matrix (described in SECNAV M-5239.2) associated with the specialty area and level commensurate with the scope of major assigned duties for the position to which assigned, and;
- 2. Participate in a continuous learning program as described in SECNAVINST 1543.2. A minimum of 40 hours of Cyber IT/CSWF related continuous learning annually documented in a current individual development plan signed by both the employee and supervisor.
We need to keep all that. Some sentences are long; we can keep as - items, maybe break into multiple items for clarity. The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we should put each requirement as
- . For the subpoints under DON Cyber IT/CSWF Program, we could embed as
- with sublist? But we can just keep as separate
- items.
Now Qualifications:
First paragraph: "This position requires one year of information technology related experience in the federal service or private or public sector demonstrating the following four competencies, as defined:" then list four competencies with definitions.
We could present as
- each competency with its definition.
Then after that: "In addition to experience demonstrating the four competencies above, your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GG/GS-12) or pay band in the federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector performing duties such as:" then list the four specialized experience bullets (which we already included under Responsibilities? Actually those are also duties but they are part of qualifications. To avoid duplication, we need to decide: Should we include them under Qualifications as specialized experience, and not duplicate under Responsibilities? The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. If we include them only under Qualifications, we still preserve them. If we also include under Responsibilities, we duplicate content. Duplication is not prohibited explicitly but we should avoid duplicated lines. The instruction says remove duplicated lines. So we should not duplicate the same content. The specialized experience bullets are similar to duties but not identical; they are more specific. The earlier duties list includes many items; the specialized experience list includes four items that overlap somewhat but are not exact duplicates. To avoid duplication, we could keep the duties list as the first set (the longer list) and keep the specialized experience list under Qualifications as separate items (they are not duplicates of the earlier list). However some may overlap (e.g., "Plan and execute complex technical assignments across enterprise IT systems..." similar to earlier duty about planning and executing complex engineering assignments). But they are not identical; still could be considered duplicate-ish. Safer to keep them under Qualifications only, and not repeat them under Responsibilities. However the earlier duties list already includes many items that cover similar ground; we could keep the earlier duties list as Responsibilities and omit the specialized experience list to avoid duplication. But the specialized experience list is part of qualifications; if we omit it, we lose that specific qualification detail. The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information. So we need to keep it somewhere. We could keep it under Qualifications as a list, and not duplicate under Responsibilities. For Responsibilities we could use the first duties list (the longer one). That seems fine.
Thus Responsibilities: use the first set of duties (the longer bullet list). Qualifications: include the four competencies (with definitions) and the specialized experience list (the four bullets). Also maybe include the "Education N/A" but we skip.
Now we need to format.
We'll output:
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Requirements
- ...
...
Qualifications
This position requires one year of information technology related experience in the federal service or private or public sector demonstrating the following four competencies, as defined:
- Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
- 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
for prose. So for duties we should list each duty as
for the paragraph describing the four competencies, then a
- for the specialized experience bullet points.
Let's extract duties:
From the first block:
- You will serve as a Senior System Administrator, capturing operational requirements from mission stakeholders and translating them into technical solutions across enterprise collaboration, messaging, database, and storage platforms.
- You will coordinate and liaise with program/project managers, systems engineers, developers, and information system security personnel to provide comprehensive IT life-cycle support from architecture planning through operational sustainment.
- You will plan and execute complex engineering assignments to install, configure, patch, migrate, and maintain high-availability Microsoft Exchange messaging systems and enterprise SharePoint farm environments across multi-network security enclaves.
- You will administer, tune, and maintain Microsoft SQL Server instances supporting critical intelligence systems, while managing enterprise storage infrastructure to guarantee high data availability, redundancy, and capacity planning.
- You will diagnose, analyze, and resolve escalated tier-3 hardware, software, and network services issues impacting Exchange, SharePoint, SQL databases, and storage subsystems, implementing root-cause remedies and disaster recovery protocols.
- You will engineer solutions for seamless interoperability and integration across hybrid IT environments, identity and access management directories (Active Directory), and DoD public key infrastructure, ensuring adherence to compliance standards.
- You will conduct stakeholder interviews and workflow assessments to define functional and non-functional requirements for next-generation system upgrades, storage tiering, data migration, and enterprise software deployments.
Then later "Duties In addition to experience demonstrating the four competencies above, your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GG/GS-12) or pay band in the federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector performing duties such as:" then list:
- Plan and execute complex technical assignments across enterprise IT systems and communications infrastructure, including deployment, sustainment, and lifecycle management of multi-tier computing and storage platforms, data workflows, and transmission integrity.
- Diagnose, analyze, and resolve enterprise system incidents involving hardware, software, and Windows server/storage infrastructure; optimize data transfers across network backbones; and engineer solutions to complex interoperability and integration challenges.
- Provide advanced technical assistance and root-cause troubleshooting to system users while conducting interviews, assessments, and workflow analyses to define technical requirements for new or modernized IT systems, services, and hardware.
- Liaise and coordinate with external stakeholders to align enterprise architectures, security compliance, infrastructure roadmaps, and mission-critical IT planning.
These are also duties (specialized experience). Should we combine them under Responsibilities? Probably yes, as they are duties. We'll combine all duty bullets into one list under Responsibilities.
Now Requirements (conditions of employment):
List each condition:
- Must be a US Citizen.
- Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
- Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
- New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
- Must obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance and access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI). Failure to do so may result in the withdrawal of an offer or removal. Indicate the level and date of your clearance in your resume.
- Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana) is required. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or pass the test. You will be subject to random testing.
- You must acknowledge in writing that you are accepting an appointment in the DCIPS (excepted service) which does not confer competitive status, prior to appointment.
- Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
- Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
- This position requires a periodic polygraph examination.
- This position may require a 2-year DCIPS trial period.
- This position has been designated as a Cyber IT/Cybersecurity Workforce position in specialty area 451 (System Administrator).
- As a condition of employment incumbents of the position are required to comply with the DON Cyber IT/CSWF Program requirements of SECNAV M-5239.2, which include:
- 1. Earn and maintain appropriate credentials from the Cyber IT/CSWF Qualification Matrix (described in SECNAV M-5239.2) associated with the specialty area and level commensurate with the scope of major assigned duties for the position to which assigned, and;
- 2. Participate in a continuous learning program as described in SECNAVINST 1543.2. A minimum of 40 hours of Cyber IT/CSWF related continuous learning annually documented in a current individual development plan signed by both the employee and supervisor.
We need to keep all that. Some sentences are long; we can keep as
- items, maybe break into multiple items for clarity. The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we should put each requirement as
- . For the subpoints under DON Cyber IT/CSWF Program, we could embed as
- with sublist? But we can just keep as separate
- items.
Now Qualifications:
First paragraph: "This position requires one year of information technology related experience in the federal service or private or public sector demonstrating the following four competencies, as defined:" then list four competencies with definitions.
We could present as
- each competency with its definition.
Then after that: "In addition to experience demonstrating the four competencies above, your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GG/GS-12) or pay band in the federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector performing duties such as:" then list the four specialized experience bullets (which we already included under Responsibilities? Actually those are also duties but they are part of qualifications. To avoid duplication, we need to decide: Should we include them under Qualifications as specialized experience, and not duplicate under Responsibilities? The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. If we include them only under Qualifications, we still preserve them. If we also include under Responsibilities, we duplicate content. Duplication is not prohibited explicitly but we should avoid duplicated lines. The instruction says remove duplicated lines. So we should not duplicate the same content. The specialized experience bullets are similar to duties but not identical; they are more specific. The earlier duties list includes many items; the specialized experience list includes four items that overlap somewhat but are not exact duplicates. To avoid duplication, we could keep the duties list as the first set (the longer list) and keep the specialized experience list under Qualifications as separate items (they are not duplicates of the earlier list). However some may overlap (e.g., "Plan and execute complex technical assignments across enterprise IT systems..." similar to earlier duty about planning and executing complex engineering assignments). But they are not identical; still could be considered duplicate-ish. Safer to keep them under Qualifications only, and not repeat them under Responsibilities. However the earlier duties list already includes many items that cover similar ground; we could keep the earlier duties list as Responsibilities and omit the specialized experience list to avoid duplication. But the specialized experience list is part of qualifications; if we omit it, we lose that specific qualification detail. The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information. So we need to keep it somewhere. We could keep it under Qualifications as a list, and not duplicate under Responsibilities. For Responsibilities we could use the first duties list (the longer one). That seems fine.
Thus Responsibilities: use the first set of duties (the longer bullet list). Qualifications: include the four competencies (with definitions) and the specialized experience list (the four bullets). Also maybe include the "Education N/A" but we skip.
Now we need to format.
We'll output:
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- ... ...
Qualifications
This position requires one year of information technology related experience in the federal service or private or public sector demonstrating the following four competencies, as defined:
- Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
- 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
- each competency with its definition.
Then after that: "In addition to experience demonstrating the four competencies above, your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GG/GS-12) or pay band in the federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector performing duties such as:" then list the four specialized experience bullets (which we already included under Responsibilities? Actually those are also duties but they are part of qualifications. To avoid duplication, we need to decide: Should we include them under Qualifications as specialized experience, and not duplicate under Responsibilities? The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. If we include them only under Qualifications, we still preserve them. If we also include under Responsibilities, we duplicate content. Duplication is not prohibited explicitly but we should avoid duplicated lines. The instruction says remove duplicated lines. So we should not duplicate the same content. The specialized experience bullets are similar to duties but not identical; they are more specific. The earlier duties list includes many items; the specialized experience list includes four items that overlap somewhat but are not exact duplicates. To avoid duplication, we could keep the duties list as the first set (the longer list) and keep the specialized experience list under Qualifications as separate items (they are not duplicates of the earlier list). However some may overlap (e.g., "Plan and execute complex technical assignments across enterprise IT systems..." similar to earlier duty about planning and executing complex engineering assignments). But they are not identical; still could be considered duplicate-ish. Safer to keep them under Qualifications only, and not repeat them under Responsibilities. However the earlier duties list already includes many items that cover similar ground; we could keep the earlier duties list as Responsibilities and omit the specialized experience list to avoid duplication. But the specialized experience list is part of qualifications; if we omit it, we lose that specific qualification detail. The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information. So we need to keep it somewhere. We could keep it under Qualifications as a list, and not duplicate under Responsibilities. For Responsibilities we could use the first duties list (the longer one). That seems fine.
Thus Responsibilities: use the first set of duties (the longer bullet list). Qualifications: include the four competencies (with definitions) and the specialized experience list (the four bullets). Also maybe include the "Education N/A" but we skip.
Now we need to format.
We'll output: