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Information Technology Specialist
Customs and Border Protection · Posted 1 days ago
On-site Portal, ND $62K – $97K Apply by Jun 25, 2026 Information Technology Management ENTJINTJINTPISTJ
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Organizational Location: This position is with the Department of Homeland Security, within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Information and Technology, Field Support Directorate, located in Portal, North Dakota. Additional selections may be made beyond the total number of vacancies specified using this vacancy announcement. Further selections may also be made for additional organizational divisions and/or units within the duty location(s) listed above.
What You'll Do
- →In this position you will be a part of a technical team(s) who implement complex technological solutions and maintain operational availability.
- →You will be responsible for work that involves the planning and delivery of customer support services, including installation, configuration and troubleshooting of networks and information technology (IT) systems, customer assistance, and/or training, in response to customer requirements.
- →This position starts at a salary of $61,722.00 (GS-9, Step 1) to $97,087.00 (GS-11, Step 10) with promotion potential to $116,362 (GS-12 Step 10).
- →GS Salary: Visit this link to view the locality pay tables by geographic area.
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- →Major Duties Include: Diagnosing and resolving problems in response to customer reported incidents.
- →Researching, evaluating and providing feedback on problematic trends and patterns to support customer support requirements.
- →Interacting with internal and external stakeholders as the Subject Matter Expert to provide IT guidance and solutions and providing customer training as required.
- →Installing, configuring, integrating, troubleshooting, optimizing and maintaining customer hardware and software to maximize system availability and monitors network performance.
- →Identifying and specifying information system security requirements and ensuring application of information security/information assurance policies, principles and practices.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Your conduct will be subject to the ethics rules applicable to all Executive Branch employees, and to CBP employees specifically, as well as the criminal conflict of interest statutes.
- ✓Once you enter on duty, these rules include obtaining approval for outside employment or business activity, to ensure such employment or business activity is not prohibited and does not interfere or conflict with performance of your official duties.
- ✓Please review further details via the following link.
- ✓DHS uses E-Verify, an internet-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States.
- ✓Learn more about E-Verify including your rights and responsibilities.
- ✓Bargaining Unit: This is a bargaining unit covered position, represented under the National Treasury Employees Unions - NTEU.
- ✓For local chapter contact information see Chapter Websites - National Treasury Employees Union Please see the Qualifications and Required Documents sections for more information if education is applicable to this position.
- ✓Education Substitution: GS-09: Successful completion of a master's or equivalent graduate degree, or 2 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree in an accredited college or university, may be substituted for experience at the GS-09 grade level.
- ✓Such education must demonstrate the skills needed to do the work.
- ✓For this position a degree in computer science, engineering, information science, information systems management, mathematics, operations research, statistics, or technology management or a degree that provided a minimum of 24 semester hours in one or more of the fields identified above and required the development or adaptation of applications, systems or networks is qualifying.
- ✓One year of fulltime graduate education is considered to be the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent 1 year of full-time study.
- ✓If that information cannot be obtained from the school, 36 semester hours should be considered as satisfying the 2 years of full-time study requirement.
- ✓Education Substitution: GS-11: Successful completion of a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree in an accredited college or university, may be substituted for experience at the GS-11 grade level.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 84484434-b5f5-4414-b7a5-d12547f48743
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