Senior Technician (Technical Coordinator)

DEFTEC Corporation • Chesapeake, VA

5d • Onsite

About The Position

DEFTEC delivers mission critical solutions through skillfully delivered services and innovative products. We are inspired by the critical missions of our clients, and we are driven to provide the most effective solutions to execute their missions, operational challenges, and requirements. Our dedicated, experienced, and talented employees work closely with our clients to ensure the delivery of exceptional services and products.
Position Overview
The Senior Technical Service Coordinator serves as a critical liaison between technical operations and end-users, providing specialized technical advice, incident and problem management support, and knowledge management services at CSU Norfolk. This role requires strong ITIL process knowledge, technical expertise in ICT systems, and excellent customer service skills to ensure seamless service delivery across the NATO enterprise. The position supports availability management, maintains knowledge management systems, coordinates incident resolution, and provides first-line technical support while ensuring all services meet agreed performance targets and service levels. This is a full-time, on-site contract position from March 16, 2026 through December 31, 2026.

Requirements

• NATO Secret security clearance
• Higher vocational training in a relevant discipline with 1 years post related experience. Or a secondary educational qualification with 3 years post-related experience.
• At least 1 year of practical experience in supporting the implementation and maintenance of ICT end systems within a large organization.
• Experience configuring hardware and software.
• An understanding of ICT systems and the ability to work independently.
• Incident management (USUP) Level 4
• Problem management (PBMG) Level 3
• Customer service support (CSMG) Level 3
• Specialist advice (TECH) Level 4
• Availability management (AVMT) Level 4
• Knowledge management (KNOW) Level 3
• A thorough knowledge of English, both written and spoken, is essential.
• Physical ability to lift equipment up to 25 lbs.
• Position requires 100% on-site presence at CSU Norfolk.

Nice To Haves

• Higher vocational training in a relevant discipline with 2 years post related experience. Or a secondary educational qualification with 4 years post-related experience.
• At least 2 years practical experience of implementation and maintenance of ICT end systems within a large organization.
• Extensive experience configuring hardware and software.
• A strong understanding of ICT systems and the ability to work independently to solve problems.
• Practical experience troubleshooting technical issues and providing technical support to end-users.

Responsibilities

• Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism to the organisation's planning and operations.
• Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
• Recognises and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge.
• Where appropriate, collaborates with other specialists to ensure advice given is appropriate to the organisation's needs.
• Maintains knowledge management systems and content to meet business needs.
• Supports others to enable them to complete knowledge management activities and form knowledge management habits.
• Supports changes to work practices to support capture and use of knowledge.
• Reports on the progress of knowledge management activities.
• Configures and develops knowledge management systems and standards.
• Analyses service and component availability, reliability, maintainability and serviceability.
• Contributes to the availability management process and its operation.
• Performs defined availability management tasks.
• Ensures that services and components meet and continue to meet all of their agreed performance targets and service levels.
• Implements arrangements for disaster recovery and documents recovery procedures.
• Conducts testing of recovery procedures.
• Provides first line investigation and gathers information to enable incident resolution and allocate incidents.
• Advises relevant persons of actions taken.
• Investigates problems in systems, processes and services.
• Assists with the implementation of agreed remedies and preventative measures.
• Responds to common requests for service by providing information to enable fulfilment.
• Promptly allocates unresolved calls as appropriate.
• Maintains records, informs users about the process and advises relevant persons of actions taken.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• holiday
• paid time off
• life insurance
• short/long-term disability
• educational reimbursement
• DEFTEC matches 401k contributions dollar for dollar up to 3% of the employee's income and an additional $0.50 for every dollar between 4-5% of the employee's income.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: High school or GED