Chief Radio Electronics Technician IAT - Mixed Work Schedule
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Posted March 15, 2026
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Chief Radio Electronics Technician IAT - Mixed Work Schedule
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Chief Radio Electronics Technician IAT - Mixed Work Schedule
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Shipboard Officer / Personnel / Crew
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Average Annual Salary: $78,460
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DUTIES(MIXED WORK SCHEDULE) - Candidates selected for Mixed Work Schedule and annuitants, regardless of work schedule, are not eligible for recruitment and retention incentives.The Chief Radio Electronics Technician (CRET) Information Assurance Technician (IAT) is a Civil Service Mariner (CIVMAR) employed by the Navy to serve the Military Sealift Command (MSC) onboard naval auxiliaries and hybrid-manned warships worldwide, in peace and war. MSC exists to support the joint warfighter across the full spectrum of military operations. MSC provides on-time logistics, strategic sealift, as well as specialized missions anywhere in the world, in contested or uncontested environments.The Chief Radio Electronics Technician (CRET) Information Assurance Technician (IAT) is a direct report to the Ship’s Communication Officer (SCO).The CRET IAT serves as the ship’s System Administrator of assigned systems maintained/administered by the Department of Defense (DoD)/Department of the Navy (DON)/Military Sealift Command (MSC). The incumbent is responsible for providing expert technical advice and guidance on critical digital communications issues to ensure the integration of Command, Control, Communications and Computers (C4) programs and services and to solve integration and interoperability issues.Maintain the MSC Afloat Computing Environment (CE), and perform vulnerability scans on information systems utilizing tools mandated by DoD and MSC, perform system backups, computer virus scans, and implement security measures when tasked by DoD and MSC. Duties also include the inventory of assets and set up and deletion of e-mail accounts for newly reporting/departing personnel.Applies Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM) patches and other patches as mandated by MSC and report IAVM compliance or discrepancy issues to assigned Afloat Support Services. Briefs Master and SCO on critical issues and prevention techniques to preserve the CE connectivity, evaluate the potential Information Assurance (IA) security risk and take appropriate corrective and recovery actions.Diagnose system failures to isolate source of problems between equipment, system software, and application programs. Assist the SCO i