Help Desk Service Specialist

SAIC • Scott AFB, IL

6h

About The Position

SAIC is seeking a Help Desk Service Specialist to support an IT Service Desk effort for USTRANSCOM located at Scott Air Force Base (AFB) in Illinois approximately 23 miles from St. Louis, MO. The USTC Managed Information Technology Services (MITS) contract is intended to provide strategic, technical, and program management guidance and support services to facilitate the operations and modernization of the combatant command’s infrastructure, systems, and applications. This support will be provided to the USTC Command, Control, Communications & Cyber Systems Directorate (TCJ6).
The successful candidate will join the Service Desk team and under supervision assist users experiencing a service disruption or requesting a service and/or a service change. The Service Desk will document and facilitate service requests and restore normal service to the user IAW priority level response times.

Requirements

• BS Four (4) years of experience
• DoD Secret clearance
• Must have at least one of these IAT Level II certifications: Security+, CECCNA-Security, CySA+ , GICSP, GSEC, CND, SSCP
• Must have at least one Computing Environment (CE) certification or certificate for the technical area of responsibility in either Network support/defense (e.g., Splunk, Cisco, McAfee, etc.) OR Operating System (e.g., Microsoft, Linux, Solaris, etc.)
• Experience researching and writing documentation and examples for technical personnel
• Experience with MS Office to include Word, PowerPoint, Visio and Project
• Ability to manage multiple, high, & competing priorities in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment
• Strong oral and written communication skills across all levels
• Self- starter and problem solver
• Ability to quickly grasp complex technical concepts and make them easily understandable in text and pictures
• Ability to communicate IT, networking, and security concepts to personnel at all levels of experience and responsibility

Nice To Haves

• DoD TS/SCI clearance
• ITIL Foundations (v4 or higher) certification
• HSDI

Responsibilities

• Provides technical support to field engineers, technicians, and product support personnel who are diagnosing, troubleshooting, repairing and debugging complex electro/mechanical equipment, computer systems, complex software, or networked and/or wireless systems.
• Responds to situations where first-line product support has failed to isolate or fix problems in malfunctioning equipment or software.
• Reports design, reliability and maintenance problems or bugs to design engineering/software engineering.
• May be involved in customer installation and training.
• Provides support to customer/users where the product is highly technical or sophisticated in nature.
• Generally interacts directly with the customer/user when the product is highly technical or sophisticated in nature, such as with systems level software where the user has a technical background.
• Additionally, may interact with product support personnel and potentially the customer when the customers problem cannot be resolved directly by first-level resources.
• Support as needed per direction of the Service Desk Lead.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level