Helpdesk Specialist

Maximus is seeking a Helpdesk Specialist to provide expertise to a federal client in support of their mission critical systems in defense of our Homeland.


As a Helpdesk Specialist, you will be responsible for providing technical support to our users and clients by triaging, researching, and answering questions regarding the program and systems.

We offer flexible work arrangements to support employees while meeting client and program requirements. Relocation assistance is available to eligible candidates who currently live more than 50 miles from the applicable work location in Annapolis Junction, MD.


Active Secret Security clearance required.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for responding to telephone calls, emails, and personnel requests for technical support.
- Identify, research, and resolve technical problems.
- Document, track, and monitor problems to ensure timely resolution.
- Correct application issues, solve network and security problems, and identify common PC software and hardware problems.
- Assign username, password, and access right permissions for multiple proprietary applications, as well as client software.

Job - Specific Essential Duties Responsibilities:

- Provide a first point of contact for customers seeking technical assistance with a ticket, phone call, email, or in person.

- Assist customers, troubleshoot problems, and coordinate technical support.

- Account creations, account lockouts, password changes.

- Record events and problems and their resolution in logs.

- Follow-up and update customer status and information.

- Log and route service requests and incidents in an incident management system.

- Maintain service level agreements related to Desk Side support Service/Incident requests.

- Direct unresolved issues to the next level of support team member.

- Establish phone bridge with next level of support and customer leads per SOP's.

- Receive and input critical time data in various formats and ingest it into the vetting system. Data may be received in various formats and must be converted to a customer defined format such as XML for ingest into the system.


Job- Specific Minimum Requirements:
- Active Secret clearance is required.

- Due to contract requirements, only US Citizens can be considered.

- 1-3+ years of experience in Helpdesk/ServiceDesk/Call Center OR equivalent experience in customer service.


- 1-3+ years of experience utilizing any Incident Management Ticketing System such as:


- ServiceNow


- Other, comparable systems

- This role supports a 24x7x365 Operations Center , requiring participation in a rotational on-call schedule and the ability to work up to 12-hour shifts , including weekends and holidays, throughout the year.


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- High school diploma or GED required and 0-2 years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.