Help Desk Service Specialist

at  SAIC

Job ID: 2405077
Location: SCOTT AFB, IL, US
Date Posted: 2024-04-05
Category: Information Technology
Subcategory: IT Systems Engineer
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No
Minimum Clearance Required: Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: No
Description
The National Security Customer Group of 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. 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 assisting the 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.

Qualifications

• BA/BS
• Four (4) or more 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 responsibilit

• 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.
  This position is for Monday through Friday, normal business hours. However, employee may be required to provide after-hours and weekend support during planned or emergency events.

Qualifications

• BA/BS
• Four (4) or more 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

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
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