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Helpdesk Specialist

Maximus

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At a glance

Compensation
$25–30/hr
Location
Annapolis Junction, MD
Work Authorization
US work authorization required

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Secret clearance

Job overview

Maximus seeks a Helpdesk Specialist to provide technical support for a federal client’s mission-critical systems. The role is onsite in Annapolis Junction and requires an active Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship. The specialist responds to user requests, troubleshoots application, network, security, and PC issues, and records and routes incidents. The position supports a 24x7x365 operations center, with rotational on-call participation and shifts of up to 12 hours.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Technical SupportTroubleshootingIncident Management SystemsCustomer ServiceXML

Qualifications

Active Secret ClearanceU.S. Citizenship1-3+ Years Helpdesk or Customer Service Experience1-3+ Years Incident Management System ExperienceHigh School Diploma or GED0-2 Years Relevant Experience

Full job description

Maximus is seeking a Helpdesk Specialist to provide expertise to a federal client in support of their mission critical systems in defense of our Homeland.

As a Helpdesk Specialist, you will be responsible for providing technical support to our users and clients by triaging, researching, and answering questions regarding the program and systems.

This position is onsite in Annapolis Junction, MD and requires an active secret clearnace.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for responding to telephone calls, emails, and personnel requests for technical support.

  • Identify, research, and resolve technical problems.

  • Document, track, and monitor problems to ensure timely resolution.

  • Correct application issues, solve network and security problems, and identify common PC software and hardware problems.

  • Assign username, password, and access right permissions for multiple proprietary applications, as well as client software.

Job - Specific Essential Duties Responsibilities:

  • Provide a first point of contact for customers seeking technical assistance with a ticket, phone call, email, or in person.

  • Assist customers, troubleshoot problems, and coordinate technical support.

  • Account creations, account lockouts, password changes.

  • Record events and problems and their resolution in logs.

  • Follow-up and update customer status and information.

  • Log and route service requests and incidents in an incident management system.

  • Maintain service level agreements related to Desk Side support Service/Incident requests.

  • Direct unresolved issues to the next level of support team member.

  • Establish phone bridge with next level of support and customer leads per SOP’s.

  • Receive and input critical time data in various formats and ingest it into the vetting system. Data may be received in various formats and must be converted to a customer defined format such as XML for ingest into the system.

Job- Specific Minimum Requirements:

  • Active Secret clearance is required.

  • Due to contract requirements, only US Citizens can be considered.

  • 1-3+ years of experience in Helpdesk/ServiceDesk/Call Center OR equivalent experience in customer service.

  • 1-3+ years of experience utilizing any Incident Management Ticketing System such as:

  • ServiceNow

  • Other, comparable systems- This role supports a 24x7x365 Operations Center, requiring participation in a rotational on-call schedule and the ability to work up to 12-hour shifts, including weekends and holidays, throughout the year.

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Minimum Requirements

'- High school diploma or GED required and 0-2 years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

Minimum Salary

$25

Maximum Salary

$30

How this job compares

Set against the 4,132 open Technical Support jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$25–30/hr
  • Maryland median$25–36/hr40 hourly ranges
  • US median$21–36/hr1,354 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $27.50/hr, is 12% below the Maryland median midpoint ($31/hr) — in the middle half of Technical Support hourly ranges in Maryland.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 83 open Technical Support jobs in Maryland and 4,132 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Maryland
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Technical Support postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 2,719 postings).
Education
370 of the 4,132 open Technical Support jobs (9%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 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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