**Description** **Job Description:** SAIC has an opening for an IT Service Management (ITSM) Operations Advisor to assist a Government customer oversee the daily operational status of a large scale IT infrastructure at a customer facility in the Ft Belvoir area. The successful candidate will help evaluate IT service deliveries to ensure they meet mission needs (Quality, Continuity, and Performance), help prepare IT Mission Directors to make real-time decisions, and assist with troubleshooting outages to ensure the rapid return to normal IT operations. Candidates will be expected to leverage traditional IT Service Management (ITSM) processes, such as Event Management, Incident Management, Problem Management, Process Improvement, etc. in the execution of their duties. **Responsibilities:** The successful candidate must be able to: · Maintain an up to date understanding an evolving IT service baseline of networks, virtualization, hosting, and other enterprise IT capabilities · Leverage a working understanding of the ITIL framework and apply it towards the oversight and maturity of an evolving IT operations · Assess proposed service delivery alignment against service operations requirements and mission objectives · Oversee service operations in accordance with Service Level Agreements (SLAs), compliance documents, and service fulfillment quality standards · Review, assess, and advise the Government on core IT capabilities, and planned maintenance activities · Make procedural and operational observations and recommendations to improve the maturity of IT services and processes · Advise the Government on continuity and emergency response test and evaluation approaches · Evaluate recommendations on continuity and emergency response approaches against standards, policies, and exercise performance objectives · Troubleshoot IT service outages, de-conflict recovery efforts, and focus on restoring normal service operations to minimize adverse impacts on mission operations · Perform after action analysis and produce after action reports designed to education senior decision makers on failures, and offer recommendations for improvement · Ensure plans, processes, procedures, and other relevant documentation are continuously aligned to mission needs · Provide recommendations on requirements, content, scheduling, certification strategies, and other relevant features as requested by the Government · Operate proactively with ability to lead and execute project engagements without direct leadership oversight and/or participation · Identify gaps in data needed to effectively and efficiently measure the services provider efforts Clearance requried to start and remain on the program Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph. **Qualifications** **REQUIREMENTS:** · Must be a US Citizen · Bachelors in a STEM related field and five (5) years or more experience; Masters in a STEM related field and three (3) years or more experience; · Must possess and maintain a Top Secret /Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance with a current Poly · Experiences with Intelligence Community (IC) infrastructure is a plus · PMP is a plus, but not required · ITIL certification is a plus, but not required REQNUMBER: 2508959 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