Service Desk Lead Security Clearance

Position: Service Desk Lead with Security Clearance
Location:

Huntsville, AL
Required Clearance: SECRET Required

Education:

Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, information systems, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.

Required Experience:

Senior IT support or service-desk experience leading customer-facing technical support operations, ticket management, escalation, SLA performance, troubleshooting, and support metrics in an enterprise environment. Position Description Ping Wind is seeking a Service Desk Lead to direct responsive, customer-focused system support for PAE Fires users. The Service Desk Lead will oversee intake, triage, routing, troubleshooting, escalation, resolution, follow-up, and performance reporting to minimize user downtime, meet service-level expectations, and continuously improve the support experience.

Primary Responsibilities Typical Responsibilities/Tasks:

• Lead embedded OCIO service-desk and user-support operations and ensure timely, effective, and professional responses to customer inquiries and technical support needs.

• Manage support requests received by telephone, email, and the Government-provided automated service desk system, including intake, logging, categorization, prioritization, routing, escalation, resolution, and follow-up.

• Direct diagnosis and troubleshooting of computer hardware and software issues and ensure customers receive clear step-by-step guidance and accurate technical assistance.

• Ensure support personnel maintain current proficiency with Government hardware, software, systems, and emerging technologies needed to resolve routine and complex user issues.

• Establish effective escalation and coordination practices with server, network, cybersecurity, application-development, asset-management, and other technical teams to restore service quickly.

• Monitor adherence to established service-level agreements and performance standards and take corrective action when response or resolution performance trends below expectations.

• Analyze service-desk activity and identify recurring issues, operational bottlenecks, support trends, training needs, and opportunities to improve first-contact resolution and customer satisfaction.

• Generate detailed performance reports covering call/ticket volumes, issue types, resolution times, trends, and other relevant support metrics in accordance with applicable reporting requirements.

• Provide technical leadership, workload management, coaching, and quality oversight for service-desk personnel while maintaining a professional customer-service culture.

Required Qualifications
• Demonstrated experience leading an enterprise service desk, help desk, or deskside/user-support operation with formal ticketing and escalation processes.

• Strong troubleshooting knowledge across end-user hardware, Windows-based computing environments, common enterprise applications, accounts/access, peripherals, and connectivity issues.

• Experience managing SLAs, response/resolution targets, ticket backlogs, priority/escalation practices, support metrics, and trend reporting.

• Ability to translate technical information into clear, professional guidance for end users and to coordinate complex incidents with specialized technical teams.

• Experience using automated service-management/ticketing systems and producing operational reports for leadership review.

• Strong team leadership, customer-service, communication, coaching, and workload-management skills.

• Ability to support mission-driven operational hours and after-hours/on-call requirements when authorized and required by specific tasks.

• SECRET security clearance. Desired Qualifications
• ITIL Foundation/Managing Professional, HDI, or comparable service-management certification.

• Experience leading service desk operations in an Army/DoD or other Federal Government environment.

• Experience with endpoint management, remote support, knowledge management, and service analytics/reporting tools.

• DoD 8140-aligned cybersecurity qualification where required by assigned cyberspace work. About Ping Wind Ping Wind is focused on delivering outstanding services to the federal government. We have…