Information System Support Specialist

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Opening Date: December 31, 2025

Closing Date: January 15, 2026

Job Class Code: 0928
Grade: 19 Professional/Technical Services
Salary: $22.82 - $31.61/Hourly (
* Includes 15% recruitment and retention stipend, and eligible for an additional 5% training bonus)
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Position Type: Full-Time

Location: Augusta

Telework: Available

The Department of Administrative and Financial Services (DAFS) Office of Information Technology (OIT) provides information technology support to over 13,000 employees. OIT oversees large scale enterprise applications that support the critical and diverse business needs of the State of Maine and its agencies. This position will be working for the Service Desk answering inbound technical calls from State of Maine employees as well as some calls from the public.

It is a fast‑paced environment that is constantly evolving.

• Practice Customer‑focus
  , ensuring that our customers are heard and their needs are met.
• Hold ourselves to a high level of Accountability by being transparent with our stakeholders.
• Maintain an effective level of Responsiveness by providing timely updates in a proactive manner.
• Strive to provide Empathy driven, people‑focused services by applying emotional intelligence skills and behaviors.

You will have an exciting opportunity to work with a team of motivated technicians at the Maine

IT Service Center. This position provides tier 1 phone support for a variety of technology needs that State of Maine users have. The ideal candidate will have strong customer service skills with prior general Information Technology knowledge of computer systems, software, and applications. The candidate should be able to communicate quickly with teammates as well as write coherent and completed entries in tickets and knowledge base articles.

The service desk hours of operation fall between 7AM and 5PM EST. This position is a hybrid position which offers remote work and requires some onsite work.

You will be part of a fast‑paced environment with highly skilled IT professionals to support multi‑user work groups crossing functional unit lines and this will include a full range of multi‑user network operating system administration responsibilities.

• Mobile and IP Phones
• Desktop and laptop hardware and software issues
• Monitoring system security procedures and including malware removal and phishing prevention.
• Provide administrative support to numerous applications and systems.

Work is performed under limited supervision. Good communication and teamwork are essential. We all help each other, regardless of our roles, thus a multi‑technical skilled candidate with a diverse background in systems is preferred, and consideration will be provided to a candidate with knowledge of our State of Maine systems.

• Performs a full range of system administration functions to control systems and attain maximum utilization and efficiency.
• Provides full user support for agency's standard application software to meet user/agency needs.
• Conducts training to develop agency personnel skills in the operations and capabilities of applications and systems.
• Staff Service Desk queue to take incoming calls.
• Utilizing remote tools to provide technical support, the applicant should be able to troubleshoot and correctly diagnose hardware and software issues related to desktops, laptops, printers, and mobile devices.
• Demonstrate flexibility to move between different teams if the need arises.
• Tests and evaluates software and hardware products to determine applicability and value to agency operations.
• Ability to perform work requiring lifting a minimum of 50 lbs. and/or physical exertion may be required.
• Ability to document clearly and concisely every call taken including troubleshooting…