Tier 1 Technician

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers' most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.

NightWing is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment; including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats. NightWing is seeking a Cyber Watch Officer to perform a wide variety of technical tasks in support of operations, production and test environments.

Responsibilities include:

• Supports and provides Tier I (Help Desk) and Tier II (Escalation) problem identification, diagnosis and resolution of problems.
• Provides support for the escalation and communication of status to agency management and internal customers.
• Observes, analyzes and reports data; and when appropriate makes necessary repairs to equipment.
• Utilizes various engineering and scientific drawings, manuals and other related documentation in the performance of assigned tasks. This position requires shift work.

Required Skills:

• Must be able to work shift schedule
• U.S. Citizenship
• Must have an active/current Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
• No experience required
• Experience and/or familiarity with one or more of the following: M365, Call Distribution Systems, Red Hat, Microsoft Windows (10, 11), VMware, SharePoint
• Experience with monitoring system health and status
• Experience documenting problems and resolutions through a tracking program
• Experience performing various administrative duties and provide technical assistance, with the supervision of a team leader to remotely located users
• Tier I experience: General troubleshooting, triage, or performance of specific tasks (i.e. user account creation, password resets/unlocks, share drive access, remote software installations)

Desired Skills:

• Experience interfacing with the following groups: software development, testing, integration, deployment, sustainment, maintenance, etc.
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Experience with ITIL methodology
• Experience and/or familiarity with one or more of the following shell scripts: Bourne, C, Krone, Bash, Perl, etc.
• Experience and/or familiarity with one or more of the following: TCP/IP, Cisco switches and routers, VLAN, firewall, VPN, storage arrays (RAID, Blades), etc.
• Experience performing incident response (tiered support model), using an Incident Management System.
• Tier II experience: Prioritize incidents. Perform detailed troubleshooting, root cause analysis. Determine multi-user, multi-system correlations.
• Experience interfacing directly with customer and program management team.
• Experience providing status to program management and input to customer status reports.

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Computer Systems Engineering or a related discipline is required.
  
  [Four (4) years of experience (for a total of six (6) or more years) may be substituted for a degree.]

Desired Certifications:

• DoD M Compliance at IAT Level I
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certification

Sydeo 3492

At Nightwing, we value collaboration and teamwork. You'll have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals who are passionate about what they do. Together, we'll leverage our collective expertise to drive innovation, solve complex problems, and deliver exceptional results for our clients.

Thank you for considering joining us as we embark on this new journey and shape the future of cybersecurity and intelligence together as part of the Nightwing team.

Nightwing is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.