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Help Desk Specialist L1

Black Eagle Defense
Annapolis, MD Full Time
POSTED ON 10/22/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/10/2026
Job Description

SALARY RANGE $60,000 - $100,000/year

DUTIES As a successful candidate for the Help Desk Specialist L1 role, you will provide 24x7 Help Desk support as defined by first response/Tier 1/Level 1 support. You will offer phone and in-person assistance to users in areas such as e-mail, LAN/WAN connectivity, directories, standard desktop images and applications, as well as COTS and GOTS software. You will serve as the initial point of contact for troubleshooting IT-related issues, including hardware/software problems, password resets, and printer malfunctions.

Required Skills

SKILLS

Utilize work aids to resolve tickets at the lowest level of support

Receive, triage, and route tickets to Tier 2 Help Desk

Compile and organize data for monthly status reports

Develop an understanding of numerous process flows to other IT systems; create and maintain user accounts

Create Help Desk tickets in the designated ticket tracking system and provide an initial acknowledgment to the end user confirming receipt

Assist users with account creation, access, and usage of IT systems

Update Standard Operating Procedure documents to reflect new system functionality or configuration changes

Analyze, log, and track issue and problem tickets related to the Intelink application

QUALIFICATIONS Two (2) years of demonstrated Help Desk experience with an Bachelor's degree OR Six (6) years of experience, and an Associates' Degree may be substituted.

Rotating Shift work position, 365 days a year, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.

Small team providing service availability monitoring and help desk support for internet-like collaboration services hosted on a government intranet for a large and diverse community of users.

Provide health and status monitoring, and take appropriate measures when a service outage occurs. Utilize SOPs to perform basic troubleshooting steps to identify the problem, then restart the service and/or servers to resolve the issue.

Document and communicate outage information to co-workers and customers.

Provide tier 1 response to customer service requests received via phone, email, chat, and tickets.

Document all communications in a ServiceNow ticket system, escalate tickets as needed.

Provide basic instructions on how to use services to both external and internal customers.

Troubleshoot customer accounts and users' ability to log in to the collaboration environment.

CERTIFICATIONS Compliance with DoD 8570.01-M with a minimum certification of IAT Level I, such as:

CompTIA Security (SEC )

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

CompTIA A

CompTIA Network (Net )

Salary : $60,000 - $100,000

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