This position is in the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB), Information Technology Directorate. Purpose of this position is to ensure the best deployment, maintenance, and operation of hosted services and infrastructure components. This includes identifying requirements, vulnerabilities, and risks to support the agency's technical infrastructure.
Analyzing requirements, evaluating solutions, planning projects, procuring resources, Implementing, testing, and deploying solutions.
As a, Information Technology Specialist (Sys Admin) you will be responsible for duties to include, but are not limited to: Identifies directory services, domain infrastructure services, and applications suitable for offsite hosting due to fiscal, business continuity, or disaster recovery reasons. System administration processes, techniques, and methodology within a cloud ecosystem (presently Microsoft Azure).
Analyzes requirements, evaluates solutions, plans projects, procures resources, implements plans, tests, and deploys selected elements. Supports the maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of hosted applications, services, infrastructure components, and their related on-premises infrastructure. Monitors and Validates Security Configurations: Sets up alerts to detect changes, malfunctions, or unauthorized access or intrusions, early warning of security changes.
Promotes; Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: Educates management on hosted service options and ensures IT infrastructure reflects sound principles. Keeps up with new technical developments, applying relevant innovations to projects. Recommends training for self and team and attends conferences to learn new security methods. Assesses FISMA compliance, determines risk profiles, and develops plans for contingency, continuity, incident response, and mitigation.
Completes and updates compliance forms for audits. Advises division management on platform issues and helps develop strategic goals.
Education is not required for this grade level. It cannot be used for qualification purposes.
AGreen-Bell@usagm.gov · 202-920-2400
This position is with U.S. Agency for Global Media, Other Agencies and Independent Organizations.
The posted pay range is $113356 – $147365/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
Applications close on 2026-10-29.
This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government · Retrieved 2026-10-15 · Not affiliated with or endorsed by OPM or USAJOBS.gov
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