Help Desk Technician

VTG Defense; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

VTG Defense is seeking an on-site Help Desk Technician in Springfield, VA to provide Tier 1–2 support for a COTS software solution delivered to a U.S. Government customer.

You will help end users, troubleshoot incidents, and support system adoption in a federal IT environment. The role requires a TS clearance, a related bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience), and strong customer service with clear communication.

Qualifications

• Active TS clearance required.
• Bachelor's degree or related professional experience accepted in lieu of degree.
• Experience supporting Intelligence Community or DoD programs.
• Experience in web-based enterprise applications help desk roles.
• Strong diagnostic and documentation skills.
• Clear written and verbal communication for technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Customer service oriented with ownership and accountability.
• Ability to learn federal DoD processes and business rules.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide Tier 1 and Tier 2 end-user support via phone, email, ticketing, or virtual meetings.
• Log, categorize, prioritize, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents per procedures and SLAs.
• Handle routine service requests such as account support and system navigation.
• Explain workflows, data requirements, approvals, and reporting features to users.
• Diagnose browser, authentication, permissions, connectivity, and performance issues.
• Reproduce issues, capture evidence, and route unresolved problems to the product team.
• Communicate status updates, workarounds, and resolutions clearly to users.
• Support go-live activities, onboarding, and post-launch hypercare.
• Create and maintain knowledge articles and troubleshooting guides.
• Identify recurring issues and suggest improvements to processes and training.
• Track metrics like ticket volume, aging, and backlog.
• Collaborate with leadership, analysts, developers, trainers, and Cybersecurity staff.

Skills

Top Secret Clearance

Help desk

Customer service

Incident management

Ticketing systems

Browser troubleshooting

DoD/IC knowledge

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Ticketing systems

Remote-support tools

Knowledge base

Job description

Overview

The Help Desk Technician provides technical and functional support for a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software solution delivered to a U.S. Government customer. The COTS platform integrates with external systems to support the federal acquisition lifecycle.

This role serves as a primary point of contact for end users, resolves or routes incidents and service requests, supports adoption of the new system, and helps the program maintain reliable operations and a positive customer experience. The ideal candidate combines strong customer service, disciplined troubleshooting, clear communication, and familiarity with federal IT support environments.

This position is 100% onsite in Springfield, VA.

What will you do?

Key Responsibilities

• End-user support: Provide responsive Tier 1 and Tier 2 assistance by phone, email, ticketing system, virtual meeting, or other approved channels.
• Incident management: Log, categorize, prioritize, troubleshoot, document, and resolve incidents in accordance with established procedures and service-level targets.
• Service requests: Fulfill routine requests such as account support, access questions, and system navigation assistance.
• Functional support: Help contracting officers, contracting specialists, program managers, and other users understand application workflows, business rules, data requirements, approvals, and reporting features.
• Technical troubleshooting: Diagnose browser, authentication, permissions, connectivity, data-entry, integration, and application-performance issues.
• Escalation: Reproduce issues, capture evidence, assess operational impact, and route unresolved problems to the technical product team.
• User communication: Provide clear status updates, workarounds, resolution instructions, and closure confirmations using language appropriate for both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Deployment support: Participate in go-live preparation, readiness activities, user onboarding, and post-launch hypercare.
• Knowledge management: Create and maintain knowledge articles, troubleshooting guides, frequently asked questions, and standard responses.
• Problem identification: Analyze recurring tickets and trends; recommend corrective actions, usability improvements, training topics, and automation opportunities.
• Operational reporting: Track ticket volume, aging, resolution time, backlog, customer feedback, and recurring issue categories.
• Team coordination: Collaborate with program leadership, business analysts, developers, trainers, system administrators, cybersecurity staff, and customer stakeholders.
• Continuous improvement: Contribute lessons learned and recommend improvements to support processes, tools, documentation, and user experience.

Do you have what it takes?

Required Qualifications

• Active Top Secret Security Clearance with CI Polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Finance, Accounting, or a STEM-related discipline. Relevant professional experience may substitute for the degree requirement.
• Experience supporting Intelligence Community or DoD programs.
• Experience supporting users of web-based enterprise applications in a help desk, service desk, customer support, or application support role.
• Ability to troubleshoot logically, ask effective diagnostic questions, reproduce issues, and document steps and outcomes accurately.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate technical concepts for nontechnical users.
• Professional customer service skills, sound judgment, patience, attention to detail, and a strong sense of ownership.
• Ability to prioritize competing requests, meet service expectations, and remain effective during go-live or high-volume support periods.
• Experience using ticketing, knowledge-base, collaboration, and remote-support tools.
• Ability to learn complex federal, DoD, and Agency-specific acquisition and business processes, terminology, roles, and business rules.
• Ability to work effectively with geographically distributed government and contractor teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with federal acquisition processes and the responsibilities of contracting officers, contracting specialists, and program managers.
• Prior experience implementing or supporting federal financial management systems (Oracle, Momentum, SAP, Appian, or similar).
• Experience with identity and access management, single sign-on, role-based permissions, browsers, and common web-application integrations.
• Experience creating knowledge articles, job aids, standard operating procedures, and user training materials.
• Knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC) practices, principles, and techniques as they apply to Agile development.
• Relevant certifications such as CompTIA A+, Network+, or Security+.

Work Location and Schedule

• Work will be performed at the customer site in Springfield, VA.
• This is a full-time position supporting customer-defined operating hours, with occasional extended-hours, on-call, weekend, or surge support during software releases and the annual end-of-fiscal-year surge period in August and September.

PayRange: VTG's estimated starting pay range is $116,000-$130,000 annually, which is a general guideline for the geographic location. When extending an offer, VTG also considers work experience, education, skill level, market considerations and may possibly include contractual requirements which may cause an offer to fall outside of this range.