Help Desk Specialist I (hd1) (government)

AT&T AT&T · Telecom · Columbia, MD

This role provides Tier 1 and Tier 2 help desk support for collaboration services hosted on a government intranet. Responsibilities include service availability monitoring, basic troubleshooting, documenting outages, and responding to customer service requests via multiple channels. The role requires office presence and rotating shift work.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide health and status monitoring and taking appropriate measures when a service outage occurs.
  2. Utilize SOPs to perform basic troubleshooting steps to identify the problem, then restart service and/or servers to resolve the issue.
  3. Document and communicate outage information to co-workers and customers.
  4. Provide tier 1 and 2 response to customer service requests received via phone, email, chat, and tickets.
  5. Document all communications in a ServiceNow ticket system, escalate tickets as needed.

Skills

Required

  • Help Desk experience
  • Bachelor's degree or Associate degree or High School diploma
  • IAT Level I certification (A+, CCNA-Security, NET+, SSCP, Security+)

Nice to have

  • ServiceNow ticket system

What the JD emphasized

  • TS/SCI with polygraph
  • Compliance with DOD 8570.01-M with a minimum certification of IAT Level I