Major Incident Response Specialist

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Andrews Air Force Base, MD
55K-100K Annually
Junior
Information Technology • Software
The Role
The Major Incident Response Specialist is responsible for ensuring the IT environment for the Air Force District of Washington operates optimally. This includes responding to outages, critical alerts, managing incident resolution, coordinating communication among involved parties, and providing IT incident coordination.
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Leidos Digital Modernization Sector has a career opportunity for a Major Incident Response Specialist to support the Air Force National Capital Region IT Services program. 

The AFNCR IT Services program provides support services for information systems for Headquarters Air Force (HAF), Air Force District of Washington (AFDW), Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other Air Force activities within the AFNCR, missions to include the Pentagon, Joint Base Andrews (JBA), Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB), and other locations, leased spaces, and alternate sites. The major support areas required are IT Operations and Maintenance; Plans, Projects, and Engineering (PP&E); and National Military Command Center (NMCC). The senior leaders and national defense missions that are supported require that the AFNCR operations never fail, resulting in a fast-paced, challenging, but also rewarding environment. 

If this sounds like the kind of environment where you can thrive, keep reading!

The Leidos Digital Modernization Sector provides a diverse portfolio of systems, solutions, and services covering land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace for customers worldwide. Solutions for Defense include enterprise and mission IT, large-scale intelligence systems, command and control, geospatial and data analytics, cybersecurity, logistics, training, and intelligence analysis and operations support. Our team is solving the world’s toughest security challenges for customers with “can’t fail” missions. 

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The Major Incident Response (MIR) Specialist is part of a team responsible for maintaining, reporting, and ensuring the IT environment for the Air Force District of Washington is up and running at all times. As a member of the 24/7 team, the MIR Specialist responds to outages, and critical alerts to resolve issues that affect end-user services. This is a swing shift on-site position (2:00PM - 10:30PM) Tuesday-Saturday located at Joint Base Andrews.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Identify major IT incidents and events based on reporting from AFNCR work centers, both internal and external to the program.

  • Receive notification of an issue, either from a user calling the Service Desk or from staff observation, and triage the incident and run it to completion.

  • Pull in the responsible parties (internal or external) to diagnose, fix, and communicate the IT problem/status/resolution.

  • Establish and maintain communication with all stakeholders and parties to the resolution during and immediately following the incident.

  • Provide IT incident coordination, track investigation and provide resolution activities across participating teams.

  • Maintain situational awareness of the incident status and impact, and provide the latest information through the Government communication and command structure.

  • Addresses somewhat complex technical issues/problems using internal best practice and through collaboration with colleagues. 

  • Establish troubleshooting conference calls, coordinate internal and outside parties for any incident and run troubleshooting calls through completion.

  • Explains technical solutions, practices and procedures to others within the organization

Basic Qualifications:

  • Typically requires BS degree and 2+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with less than 2 years of prior relevant experience.

  • Requires an active DoD Secret clearance. 

  • Demonstrate proficiency with Microsoft Office 365 applications. (PP, Excel)

  • A solid understanding of Network equipment, their capabilities, and architecture.

  • Strong writing and communication skills.

  • Ability to multitask and operate under pressure.

  • Excellent briefing and oral communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • CompTIA Sec+ Certification

Original Posting Date:2024-11-21

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:Pay Range $55,250.00 - $99,875.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Top Skills

Incident Response
It Operations
The Company
Alexandria, VA
27,104 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

We Are Leidos

For 50 years we have been tackling some of the biggest problems that face our nation and our world.

OUR MISSION
Through our culture of innovation and history of performance, we develop deep customer trust built on integrity and create enduring solutions that improve our world. Leidos is a science and technology solutions leader working to address some of the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and healthcare markets. The company’s 43,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $11.09 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2020.

Leidos was cited for the meaningful work employees perform that is challenging, impactful, and aligned with our customers’ missions as reasons professionals want to work and stay at our company. Leidos has also been named to lists including Forbes’ Best Employers for Diversity, Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for Women, Military Times Best for Vets Employers, and Ethisphere Institute’s World's Most Ethical Companies®.

Employees enjoy career enrichment opportunities available through mobility and development and experience rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and talented colleagues and customers. Employees appreciate our flexible work environment, allowing for and encouraging a true work-life balance. Our professionals are also excited about our Employee Resource Groups, like the newly launched Collaborative Outreach with Remote and Embedded Employees (CORE), which strives to create an environment where every employee, regardless of location, feels fully engaged as a valued employee of Leidos.

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