Helpdesk Engineer, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton; Waipahu (HI); On-site; USD 78,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Tuition assistance

Paid leave

Professional development

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Senior Helpdesk Engineer to lead ITSM delivery and manage complex help desk environments for DoD clients. The role focuses on architecting, deploying, and operating delivery environments, documenting workflows, and guiding escalation processes across hybrid setups.

You will interface with internal delivery, engineering, and cybersecurity teams, mentor storage engineers, and help shape policy to ensure secure, efficient delivery. A Secret clearance is required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience operating complex help desk environments
• Experience with identity systems such as Microsoft AD
• Experience with advanced ticketing systems such as ServiceNow or Jira
• Experience documenting workflows
• Ability to demonstrate cross‑functional communications with a variety of engineering teams
• Secret clearance
• HS diploma or GED

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a senior ITSM delivery team across multiple DoD clients.
• Architect, deploy, and operate complex delivery environments and help desk solutions.
• Document processes, workflows, escalation paths, and policies for delivery integrity.
• Interface with stakeholders across engineering, cybersecurity, and delivery teams to ensure resilient, data‑centric delivery.

Skills

Incident management

SOP development

Identity systems

Cross-functional communication

Secret clearance

Education

HS diploma or GED

Bachelor's degree (Nice to have)

Tools

ServiceNow

Jira

Job description

Helpdesk Engineer, Senior

The Opportunity: As a senior ITSM delivery lead and help desk administrator on our team, you’ll be integral to architecting, deploying, and operating complex delivery environments across various DoW clients. You'll embrace an existing help desk implementation, document processes and workflows, including escalation, and advise on opportunities for efficiency change. Interface with key stakeholders and users, including internal delivery and engineering teams as well as cybersecurity professionals, to assure resilient data‑centric delivery. You'll assist in designing and implementing custom policy to ensure positive control of delivery and access across hybrid environments, including edge solutions. You'll mentor the next set of storage engineers to help them grow into tomorrow’s data architects. Work with us and build the future of technology for the better. Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

• 8+ years of experience operating complex help desk environments providing simple troubleshooting to complex problem solving, including incident management and standard operating procedure (SOP) development
• Experience with identity systems such as Microsoft AD
• Experience with advanced ticketing systems such as ServiceNow or Jira
• Experience documenting workflows
• Ability to demonstrate cross‑functional communications with a variety of engineering teams
• Secret clearance
• HS diploma or GED

Nice If You Have:

• Experience with AI in ITSM process
• Experience working in federal, DoW, or IC agency environments
• Knowledge of federal information security policies, standards, procedures, directives, frameworks, federal security authorizations, assessment, and risk management processes for enterprise systems
• Bachelor's degree in an IT, Cybersecurity, or Engineering field
• ITIL, Atlassian, ServiceNow or COBIT Certification

Clearing Information

Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well‑being.

Our offerings include the following benefits:

• health
• life
• disability
• financial
• retirement benefits
• paid leave
• professional development
• tuition assistance
• work‑life programs
• dependent care

Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values.

Full‑time and part‑time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract‑specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $77,600.00 to $176,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

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As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

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Work Model

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Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.

Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.

Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.

About Booz Allen

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