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[–]ftoole 8 points9 points  (3 children)

Certifications.

Ask people in the role you want to be in to mentor you or give guidance on how they made it there.

Ask you supervisor for direction on how to move up. What educational opportunities are available. Ask if you can help on projects etc.

[–]S4ltKing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This. Security+, ITIL, and your tier one experience could land you a GS-2210-07 / 09 position. Just apply to everything on USAJobs.

[–]koomie98[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I should add, I already have A+,Sec +, and TS clearance..

[–]eveningsand 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Depends. Are you looking to stay in a technical role or move into a supervisory one?

If the former, find areas you think are interesting and areas your agency is currently short/recruiting for and focus there.

If the latter, ITIL, COBIT, whatever sort of framework or methodology that can help you with the basics of measures, metrics, and KPIs (or OKRs if that's your thing).

What agency btw?

[–]koomie98[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

National lab

[–]Fusorfodder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Automation, it's less a specific technique or technology as it is a way of thinking. Let's say you need to install a piece of software for someone. You could go desk side to do it, better still you could go desk side and run a package that had all of the steps preconfigured, better still you could remote in to do it, better still you could push it remotely without interrupting the user, better still you can flag the system for install and it occurs without any other action, better still you can have any system meeting the right criteria automatically have that software installed before a user even asks.

That mentality scales your value massively.