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General Description
Information Systems Technicians (IT) perform the following core and specialty functions: Information Systems (IS) Administration (i.e., build, configure, deploy, operate, maintain networks and information systems and perform tiered customer service support); Cybersecurity (i.e., plan, manage, secure, implement security controls to protect and defend networks to include IS across platforms, fleets, and services); Communications Operations (i.e., establish, monitor, and maintain Radio Frequency (RF) communications systems, perform spectrum management to support Joint, Fleet, and tactical communications and handle, store, transmit, and retrieve Naval messages); Communications Security (COMSEC) (i.e., secure, handle, account for, report, and control COMSEC materials, systems, and equipment).
What They Do
The duties performed by ITs include:
· Provide end users tiered-level customer support by coordinating software, hardware, and networks; install, configure, troubleshoot, and provide maintenance and training.
· Manage and secure commercial network Operating Systems (OS) within the functional areas of configuration, systems, and performance management
· Identify vulnerabilities and perform corrective actions to ensure system confidentiality, integrity, and availability
· Verify that appropriate security tests are conducted and documented, ensuring accreditation support documentation is developed and maintained; ensure that each information system meets security specifications to an acceptable level of risk.
· Acquire, monitor, and maintain an organization’s COMSEC allowance; ensure proper storage and adequate physical security for all COMSEC material held within an account; operate and maintain the Management Client/Advanced Key Processor (MGC/AKP) to manage material, and support local key generation, encryption, decryption, and destruction.
· Configure hardware and applications to interface with defended networks and Information Systems (IS) in support of Defensive Cyberspace Operations (DCO) on the Department of Defense Information Network (DODIN)
· Utilize incident reporting procedures to investigate, analyze, and respond to disruptions within the pertinent domain to mitigate immediate and potential threats
· Conduct threat and vulnerability assessments and determine deviations from acceptable configurations or policies. Assesses the level of risk and develops and/or recommends appropriate mitigation countermeasures in operational and non-operational situations.
· Perform messaging, system monitoring, fault isolation, and circuit restoration of communications suites across the frequency spectrum
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