Help Desk Technician

Cornerstone Defense LLC; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Cornerstone Defense LLC is seeking a Help Desk Technician in Springfield, VA to deliver Tier 1 and Tier 2 support for a government-facing COTS software solution. You will serve as the primary contact for end users, resolve incidents, and help users adopt the system.

The role requires TS/SCI with Polygraph to apply, strong customer service, and disciplined troubleshooting. You’ll work with distributed teams to ensure reliable operations during releases and go-live activities.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret Security Clearance with CI Polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline (relevant experience may substitute).
• Experience supporting Intelligence Community or DoD programs.

Responsibilities

• End-user support across multiple channels (phone, email, tickets).
• Log, prioritize, troubleshoot, document, and resolve incidents per SLAs.
• Assist with user onboarding, go-live, and post-launch support.

Skills

Top Secret Clearance

Clear communication

Problem solving

Customer service

Team coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or related field

Tools

Ticketing systems

Remote-support tools

Knowledge-base tools

Job description

Help Desk Technician

Springfield, VA

Target Compensation: $90k - $120k

TS/SCI with Polygraph Needed to Apply

Position Summary

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.

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.

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.