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Enterprise Operations Center Specialist

SAIC

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Compensation
$40–80K/yr
Location
Washington, DC
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Public Trust clearance

Job overview

SAIC seeks a mid-level Enterprise Operations Center Specialist for the Department of Transportation headquarters in Washington, D.C. The specialist monitors enterprise infrastructure and systems, responds to events and alerts, coordinates incident resolution, and supports critical incident communications. The role also includes troubleshooting, ticket management, root cause documentation, on-site support during off-hours, knowledge management, and reporting. The center operates 24/7, including federal holidays, with variable shifts.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Enterprise Systems MonitoringNetwork MonitoringIncident ManagementSystem TroubleshootingServiceNowOBM

Qualifications

2+ Years Related Experience4+ Years Related ExperienceCompTIA Security+ CEU.S. Citizenship or Green Card3 Years U.S. ResidencyAbility to Obtain Public Trust

Full job description

Description

Position Overview

SAIC is currently seeking an Enterprise Operations Center Specialist (Mid-level). This position is in Washington, D.C. at the Department of Transportation (DOT) Headquarters’ Building. The EOC operates 24 hours per day, 7 days per week including all Federal Holidays and will utilize appropriate monitoring tools and follow standard incident management processes.

Responsibilities:

  • Respond to events and e-mails from automated tools and outside groups (AT&T), direct checks of critical systems.

  • Provide proactive and scheduled console monitoring of infrastructure and systems in near real time (e.g., hardware, and network), respond to messages, and take corrective action as defined.

  • Performs day-to-day activities required to monitor systems for events or alerts.Coordinates and manages the resolutions of events and alerts.

  • Monitors and identifies problem areas and coordinates resolutions.Applies fundamental concepts, processes, practices, and procedures on technical assignments.

  • Early analysis; contact POCs for confirmation of event.

  • Troubleshoot affected CI – ping, log into router/switch to check logs and interface status

  • Escalate – Contact and liaison with DOT Tier III teams, open and assign ITTSM tickets.Open and manage tickets with outside vendors, e.g., AT&T

  • Communicate – Generate correspondence required for incident management, to include notifications and follow up with modal POCs regarding cyber incidents, service degradations, outages, daily operational status reports, and COE Morning summary report.

  • Critical Incidents –initiates the Critical Incident Management process and anchors the Incident Response Bridge process.Takes notes from bridge call to update Outage communications.Contacts the necessary team members to join bridges.

  • As required, document the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for the incident, gather and process the required information, and assign a sequential RCA number to the new document.Identify what RCA information can be moved to the knowledge management repository.

  • Act as on-site troubleshooting and repair support for ExecHelp and Tier III teams during off-hours (i.e., Hands-on at Data Center, escort un-badged personnel in Data Center).

  • Knowledge Management and Documentation – maintain POC and site information for remote sites, create and update SOPs for IMC processes.

  • Generate and distribute daily and weekly reports.

Shifts: Variable

Qualifications

Top Qualifications, Skills, Experience or Certifications:

  • Must have a minimum of 2 years of related experience providing support to an enterprise operation center, monitoring and managing enterprise systems and networks using advanced technologies and tools.

  • 4+ years of related experience providing support to an enterprise operation center, monitoring and managing enterprise systems and networks using advanced technologies and tools strongly preferred.

Preferred skills and qualifications:

  • Familiarity with Service Now

  • Familiarity with OBM

  • CompTIA Security + CE

Note: Candidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and the ability to obtain a public trust.

Target salary range: $40,001 - $80,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2618181

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

How this job compares

Set against the 843 open IT Operations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 30, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$40–80K/yr
  • Washington, D.C. median$97–133K/yr20 salary ranges
  • US median$79–124K/yr614 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $60K, is 47% below the Washington, D.C. median midpoint ($112K) — in the lowest quarter of IT Operations salary ranges in Washington, D.C..

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 26 open IT Operations jobs in Washington, D.C. and 843 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four IT Operations postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 712 postings).
Education
406 of the 843 open IT Operations jobs (48%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 30, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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