Job Specifications
Target Hiring Range: $61,290-$85,000
Department: Chief Information Officer Posting Date Range: 12/29/2025-12/31/2025 Pay Grade Range: $61290-$107311
Work Hours: 8:30am-5:00pm
FLSA Status: Exempt
Remote Work Status: Hybrid
Hybrid Schedule: 2 days per pay period
All remote or hybrid work arrangements must be performed from within the continental United States, subject to Sergeant at Arms approval.
The Senate Sergeant at Arms does not pay for relocation expenses.
This vacancy announcement closes at 7pm EST. Late applications will not be accepted.
Job Description
JOB OVERVIEW
The Target Hiring Range for this position is: $61,290-$85,000
About Us
The Sergeant at Arms plays a crucial role in upholding the operational integrity of the Senate community. Our vision is to foster an environment of innovation, collaboration, and adaptability, ensuring uninterrupted legislative proceedings irrespective of time, place, or circumstance. The Cybersecurity department is responsible for protecting the systems and information used to create the legislation that underwrites our democracy. We create a resilient cybersecurity operation by pro-actively identifying, protecting, detecting, reacting, and recovering (IPDRR) the US Senate enterprise. We combine people, processes, and technology into a state of the art, continuous risk-reduction practice that is exible, innovative, and eective.
Role Overview
As part of the SAA's dedicated cybersecurity team, step into a vital role that enhances our cybersecurity posture. You will join the Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence Cell in our Threat Intelligence Branch, where your experience will contribute signicantly to a team known for its technical prociency, research, analytic rigor, customer focus, and responsiveness. Your responsibilities will center on researching adversary capabilities and intent to target the Senate network, and support actual cybersecurity incidents, addressing cybersecurity concerns, and fortifying our defenses against diverse cyber threats on a 24/7 basis. In this role, you will also provide support to other team members across the cybersecurity department.
Key Accountabilities/Essential Job Duties
Provides functional and/or technical skills for the assigned cybersecurity unit. Supports the unit’s work effort as required in preparing materials for collaborating with other sections, divisions, departments, and vendors to gather and disseminate information. Contributes to the unit’s work effort as required in preparing analysis and materials for providing expert level support in the assigned area of cybersecurity to SAA IT security branch staff, other SAA technical staff, SAA procurement staff, and other division or departments; and for identifying and resolving critical and complex issues in the assigned unit. Supports the unit’s work effort as directed in providing leadership to the unit’s project teams and contractors. Work includes helping to develop plans, assignments, and coordination of work efforts. Supports the unit’s work effort to develop governing policies, standards, and procedures. Other duties as assigned.
JOB SPECIFICATIONS
Required Education
High School Diploma, GED.
Required Work Experience
No formal work experience required, though practical experience gained through relevant coursework, academic projects, internships, certifications or self-directed learning is highly beneficial. A strong foundation in cybersecurity principles and familiarity with industry-standard tools and technologies is expected, with the ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technical environments.
Required Special Skills/ Knowledge
As part of our hiring process, we may conduct a skills assessment to better understand an applicant’s proficiency in key areas relevant to the role.
Working Conditions
This position directly supports essential services of the U.S. Senate. As such, this position requires the employee be available and prepared to work during government shutdowns, in inclement weather, on holidays, weekends, and during late nights to ensure essential services to the Senate continue without interruption. In the context of government furloughs, this position is considered excepted.
The U.S. Senate network cannot be taken offline for maintenance during the workday, or while the Senate is in session. As such, maintenance windows may only occur at night, on weekends, and occasionally on holidays. Employees who perform systems upgrades, maintenance, wiring, backups, support our alternate data centers will have schedules that include working nights, weekends, and holidays.
Sedentary.
Security Clearance
This position requires that the applicant obtain and maintain aSecret U.S. Government security clearance.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens in order for the SAA to submit your application for a security clearance.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
To be employed by a Senate employing office in a paid position in the continental United States an individ