IT Cybersecurity Specialist (INFOSEC/ENTARCH)

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• Serves as the Defense Logistics Agency's (DLA) dedicated Artificial Intelligence (AI) Security Engineer within the Information Operations, J6, Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO)
• Protects AI and machine learning (ML) systems from cyber threats
• Functions as DLA's primary defense against AI-specific cyber threats to include adversarial ML attacks, model extraction attempts, data poisoning campaigns, and prompt injection vulnerabilities
• Protects mission-critical AI capabilities deployed across DLA's enterprise by ensuring they remain secure-by-design through the integration of robust security controls, continuous adversarial testing, and rigorous compliance validation
• Serves as DLA's technical authority for defending against AI-specific cybersecurity threats including model extraction, data poisoning, and backdoor implementations, that fall outside traditional IT security frameworks

Requirements Help Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Tour of Duty: Set Schedule
• Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive with Secret Access
• Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
• Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.
• Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
• Bargaining Unit Status: No
• Selectees are required to have a REAL ID or other acceptable identification documents to access certain federal facilities. See https://www.tsa.gov/real-id for more information.
• This position and any future selections from this announcement may be used to fill various shifts located anywhere within DLA Information Operations, J6., Develops comprehensive security architectures exclusively for AI/ML environments, creating isolated training environments with data exfiltration controls, secure model serving infrastructures with adversarial detection, encrypted inference pipelines for classified workloads, and zero-trust AI networks with continuous authentication.

• Conducts enterprise-level AI security risk assessments, develops AI-specific threat models for ML pipelines, and designs mitigation strategies addressing vulnerabilities throughout the AI lifecycle from data ingestion to deployment operations.
• Directs comprehensive vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and red-teaming exercises specifically designed for AI/ML environments, identifying both conventional IT vulnerabilities and AI-specific risks such as adversarial example attacks and training data corruption.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

To qualify for an IT Cybersecurity Specialist (INFOSEC/ENTARCH) your resume and supporting documentation must support: A. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position. To qualify at the GS-14 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military or private sector. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including time-in-grade (General Schedule (GS) positions only), time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement. Creditable specialized experience includes, Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level.

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is committed to maintaining a safe, drug-free workplace. All DLA employees are required to refrain from illegal drug use on and off duty. DLA conducts pre-employment, reasonable suspicion, post-accident, and random drug testing. Applicants tentatively selected for employment in testing designated positions will undergo a urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Refusal to undergo testing or testing positive for illegal drugs will result in withdrawal of the tentative job offer and a six-month denial of employment with DLA from the date of the drug test. Employees in drug testing designated positions are subject to random drug testing. The DLA drug testing panel tests for the following substances: marijuana, cocaine, opiates, heroin, phencyclidine, amphetamines, methamphetamines, fentanyl, norfentanyl, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), and opioids. ADVISORY: Use of cannabidiol (CBD) products may result in a positive drug test for marijuana. DLA employees are subject to Federal law and under Federal law, Marijuana is a Schedule I drug and is illegal. Additional guidance on writing a federal resume can be found at: USAJOBS Help Center - How do I write a resume for a federal job? The resume builder can help you create a resume using these recommendations and uses the information in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started.