The Service Desk Officer is a Network Operations Center Watch Administrator position in support of a Government Solutions customer in the Northern Virginia area. Work is technical in nature providing Tier 1 support a telephone and trouble ticket-oriented Service Desk in support of a customer;s mission-oriented IT infrastructure.
The Service Desk Officer monitors Network and Server Infrastructure, performs initial troubleshooting on LAN & WAN data telecommunications equipment plus the supporting applications and services.
This requires Tier 1 troubleshooting and problem solving using on-the-job experience, documentation, knowledge bases, and deployed network and IT management tools.
Candidate will serve as liaison between the end users / customers and senior technical staff if problems are escalated.
The Service Desk Officer processes routine customer work orders such as adding routes and adding system accounts.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Education requirements are flexible depending on experience.
The following skills / prerequisites are required:
Excellent verbal (Phone customer interaction skills) and written communication skills.
Experience with general information technology.
Willingness to work in Northern Virginia (west of Tysons Corner up to and including Dulles Airport Vicinity)
Ability to work both as part of a team and independently.
Must be 8570 compliant (IAT Level 2) by date of security indoctrination with any necessary Computing Environment (CE) for certification
