This position is in the Department of the Chief Information Officer, Information Technology Security Office, Security Operations Division, Security Operations Support Branch. The Security Operations Division protects the judiciary from cyber threats, strengthens the judiciary's security posture and threat awareness, eliminates threats before they can harm operations, and provides evaluation services to strengthen systems and programs.
The Supervisory Information Technology Specialist (Security) is in the Information Technology Security Office's Security Operations Division and serves as the Security Operations Support Branch Chief. The Security Operations Branch delivers enterprise detection engineering, threat hunting, threat intelligence, and insider threat capabilities in support of continuous cybersecurity operations. This position reports to the Security Operations Division Chief.
The incumbent is a recognized cyber-security subject matter expert with a strong defensive cybersecurity background and is responsible for leading detection engineering, threat hunting, threat intelligence and insider threat teams to identify cybersecurity threats impacting the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of judicial data.
the Supervisory Information Technology Specialist (Security) leads hypothesis-based threat hunting to identify, investigate, and mitigate advanced persistent threats, zero-day vulnerability abuse, and other malicious activity to bypass traditional security controls. The incumbent lead detection engineering to categorize known attack vectors through the security information and event management.
The incumbent is responsible for the threat intelligence program, reporting on malicious threat actors, and identifying insider threats to judiciary data and systems. Leading, directing, and overseeing the Security Operations Support Branch. Overseeing the development, testing, deployment, and lifecycle management of detection logic used to identify malicious activity.
Leading the production and operational integration of threat intelligence to inform detection engineering priorities, hunting hypotheses, and risk-based decision making. Directing proactive threat hunting activities to identify emerging, novel, or evasive adversary behavior not covered by existing detection mechanisms.
Establishing and maintaining detection engineering standards, methodologies, and quality assurance processes to support accuracy, consistency, and operational effectiveness. Overseeing the validation, tuning, and refinement of detections based on operational feedback, adversary emulation results, and observed threat activity. Ensuring development of metrics and reporting to measure detection coverage, effectiveness and operational maturity.
Leading the development and maintenance of a common operational picture that identifies baseline behavior and meaningful deviations to support shared situational awareness, prioritization and leadership decision making. Providing regular executive summaries to senior leadership and judiciary cybersecurity stakeholders for informed enterprise risk understanding prioritization, and resource allocation decisions.
Coordinating closely with Security Operations Center to support alert fidelity, investigative workflows, and continuous improvement of analytic outcomes. Managing branch personnel, contractor support, and resource planning to sustain required capabilities.
This position does not require education to qualify.
Christina_Stokes@ao.uscourts.gov · (202) 502-3800
This position is with Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Judicial Branch.
The posted pay range is $121785 – $197200/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
Applications close on 2026-09-10.
This position is open under the 'Fed Competitive' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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