Entry Level IT Support Specialist Jobs
New grad it support specialist jobs draw recent graduates and entry level candidates with zero to two years of experience, where a strong homelab project or internship background can matter more than a long resume. Most openings are on-site roles across Education, Manufacturing, and Consulting & Professional Services, with employers like HDR, OpenAI, and Entech hiring at this level now.
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Description
The Employment Security Department (ESD) is seeking a skilled, customer-focused IT professional to serve as an IT Customer Support Specialist.
The ideal candidate is a calm, analytical problem-solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment. You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical users, approach challenges with curiosity, and take pride in delivering excellent service. You are adaptable, collaborative, and committed to helping staff stay productive by ensuring their technology works reliably and securely. You bring strong troubleshooting skills, sound judgment, and a dedication to continuous learning.
Note: This is a non-permanent position anticipated to last until 5/31/2027
Duties
This position plays a critical role in supporting ESD’s mission by ensuring staff, contractors, and partners have reliable access to the desktop systems, applications, mobile devices, telecommunications tools, and secure network resources they need to serve Washingtonians. You will provide advanced technical support, resolve incidents, fulfill service requests, and coordinate solutions across IT teams to maintain stable, secure, and efficient operations.
In this role, you will deliver enterprise-wide technical support, administer user access and system configurations, manage mobile devices, and contribute to process improvements and technology projects. Your work ensures that more than 4,000 devices, 950+ mobile phones, 2,500+ VPN users, and multiple telephony systems remain operational and secure for agency staff and partners.
Some of what you will do:
- Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve technical incidents involving desktop hardware/software, telephones, mobile devices, printers, network connectivity, and mainframe access for users statewide.
- Install, configure, and support desktop systems, applications, telecommunication tools, and mobile devices to meet operational needs.
- Administer user accounts, security groups, and permissions in Active Directory, Exchange, Intune/MECM, and other endpoint management tools.
- Manage mobile devices and services, including provisioning, configuration, MDM administration, upgrades, and secure deactivation/wiping.
- Monitor, identify, and resolve incidents using technical tools; create and use PowerShell scripts to automate diagnostics and configuration tasks.
- Prepare and distribute enterprise outage notifications and coordinate with IT teams and vendors during major incidents or system changes.
- Define, document, and implement customer support processes; provide service-level reporting and consult with customers on solutions.
- Develop and maintain customer self-service options, including MDM portals and knowledge base articles.
- Participate in or lead technology projects, providing operational requirements and implementing new or upgraded systems and services.
- Preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems and data; immediately report security events or incidents.
To request a detailed position description, click here.
Qualifications
Required:
Option 1: Five years of IT experience performing position specific duties related to managing, operating, and maintaining enterprise desktop, network, client server, virtualization. And two years of service desk or call-center experience.
Option 2: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or closely related field and one year of experience consulting, installing and/or maintaining IT Infrastructure devices and PCs/Laptops/Tablets and general technical support in IT.
AND
- Four years of information technology experience such as analyzing, designing, installing hardware, telecommunications, or network infrastructure equipment or providing customer or technical support in information technology
- Experience with MECM, MS Intune, MS Active Directory, MS Windows operating systems and MS Office suite.
- Experience and knowledge of PC hardware and peripherals
- Experience and knowledge of networking technology to include switches, LAN, WAN, Enterprise systems (e.g. DHCP, DNS Active Directory, SCCM, Exchange).
AND the ability to demonstrate the following, required competencies:
- Security: Preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of ESD systems and data in accordance with the policies, procedures, and best practices established and maintained by the ESD information security team. Immediately report any Security event, incident, or breach in reporting.
-
Technical problem-solving skills: Ability to analyze and solve problems through a methodical process. Can identify the errors or failures on complex services that traverse network components (IT Services) such as firewalls, routing, DHCP and IP addressing, Active Directory, System Center and the endpoint and operating systems. Works independently to analyze complex problems.
- Creates and submits plans to Change Advisory Board for implementation.
- Critical thinking – use purposeful and reflective judgement to process, analyze, interpret, explain, evaluate, illustrate, and compare information.
- Ability to stay current with new/emerging technologies and/or systems.
-
Service analysis: Develops service processes or portions of complex projects. Propose technical solutions that can improve those processes; design information systems to automate business requests or support processes.
- Ability to read and develop diagrams to illustrate business and/or technical (service) processes.
- Understand complex processes traversing multiple infrastructure services.
- Ability to conceptualize and communicate processing alternatives to improve efficiencies or solve business problems.
-
Deployment and testing: Develops configuration change in response to system failure or enhancement. Tests, provides communication plan, pilots and deploys solution to targeted users, devices or the enterprise.
- Ability to write test plans and perform testing on multiple aspects of software and hardware, including usability, functionality, and security concerns.
- Ability to plan, document, and configure components of complex systems.
- Ability to maintain technical documentation written by others and keep it up to date.
- Ability to coordinate a statewide deployment or change, coordinating with support teams, communications teams providing early life support and backout planning.
-
Planning and organization: Ability to effectively organize multiple assignments to produce work products and services that are accurate, thorough, and on time.
- Ability to ensure that tasks are planned and documented in advance of their execution.
- Ability to assist the project manager in estimating and planning project time and completing work breakdowns.
- Ability to coordinate multiple facets of complex projects including people, processes, and resources.
- Ability to evaluate progress on assigned tasks and adjusts organization, priority, time, method, etc. If unsure of competing priorities, contact lead or supervisor for assistance.
- Remains acutely aware of timeframes and successfully meets deadlines. If deadlines are in jeopardy, appropriately seeks assistance or guidance from lead or supervisor.
- Shows ability to respond to changing demands. Demonstrates the ability to prioritize work for the most efficient use of time and resources.
- Ability to lead teams to design solutions and resolve complex problems.
Preferred/Desired Experience:
- Three years of information technology service desk or call center experience.
- Three years of experience using an electronic ticketing system for incidents, work orders, change requests and service requests.
- Three years of troubleshooting and problem resolution for mission critical, enterprise-wide computing environment.
- Certification in ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library).
- Experience with PowerShell.
- Ability to effectively communicate with and among technical and non-technical staff.
- Demonstrated history as a positive team player that shares ideas, solutions, and information with teammates.
Required equity competencies:
The ability to take action to learn and grow.
The ability to take action to meet the needs of others.
Education to Experience Equivalences:
Associate Degree = 2 years | Bachelor Degree = 4 years | Masters or Higher = 5 years
Additional Requirement of Employment:
- Must be able to pass Unemployment Insurance (UI) & Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) claim and fraud check.
Please submit only the required documents as noted below and ensure all Personal Identifying Information (PII) such as Social Security numbers etc. are edited out of your materials for privacy.
Please submit your Cover Letter and Resume with your Online Application through the "Add Attachments" field. A resume will not substitute for the "work experience" section of the application or vice versa. Applications with blank fields, or supplemental question responses with comments such as "see attachments" may be considered incomplete.
Supplemental Information
Opportunity for All
We strive to create a working environment that includes and respects cultural, ethnic, racial, religious, sexual orientation, and gender identity diversity. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, people over 40 years of age, people with religious beliefs, veterans or people with military status, and people of all sexual orientations and gender identities are encouraged to apply.
The Employment Security Department is an equal opportunity employer/program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities.
If you are a person needing assistance in the application process, if you need this job announcement in an alternate format, or if you have general questions about this opportunity, please contact Katie Swanson, 360-742-8208 or the Talent Acquisition Team, or Washington Relay Service 711 prior to the recruitment closing. If you are having technical difficulties creating, accessing, or completing your application, please contact careershelp@des.wa.gov or (360) 664-1960 or toll free (877) 664-1960, Washington Relay 711.
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Description
The Employment Security Department (ESD) is seeking a skilled, customer-focused IT professional to serve as an IT Customer Support Specialist.
The ideal candidate is a calm, analytical problem-solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment. You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical users, approach challenges with curiosity, and take pride in delivering excellent service. You are adaptable, collaborative, and committed to helping staff stay productive by ensuring their technology works reliably and securely. You bring strong troubleshooting skills, sound judgment, and a dedication to continuous learning.
Note: This is a non-permanent position anticipated to last until 5/31/2027
Duties
This position plays a critical role in supporting ESD’s mission by ensuring staff, contractors, and partners have reliable access to the desktop systems, applications, mobile devices, telecommunications tools, and secure network resources they need to serve Washingtonians. You will provide advanced technical support, resolve incidents, fulfill service requests, and coordinate solutions across IT teams to maintain stable, secure, and efficient operations.
In this role, you will deliver enterprise-wide technical support, administer user access and system configurations, manage mobile devices, and contribute to process improvements and technology projects. Your work ensures that more than 4,000 devices, 950+ mobile phones, 2,500+ VPN users, and multiple telephony systems remain operational and secure for agency staff and partners.
Some of what you will do:
- Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve technical incidents involving desktop hardware/software, telephones, mobile devices, printers, network connectivity, and mainframe access for users statewide.
- Install, configure, and support desktop systems, applications, telecommunication tools, and mobile devices to meet operational needs.
- Administer user accounts, security groups, and permissions in Active Directory, Exchange, Intune/MECM, and other endpoint management tools.
- Manage mobile devices and services, including provisioning, configuration, MDM administration, upgrades, and secure deactivation/wiping.
- Monitor, identify, and resolve incidents using technical tools; create and use PowerShell scripts to automate diagnostics and configuration tasks.
- Prepare and distribute enterprise outage notifications and coordinate with IT teams and vendors during major incidents or system changes.
- Define, document, and implement customer support processes; provide service-level reporting and consult with customers on solutions.
- Develop and maintain customer self-service options, including MDM portals and knowledge base articles.
- Participate in or lead technology projects, providing operational requirements and implementing new or upgraded systems and services.
- Preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems and data; immediately report security events or incidents.
To request a detailed position description, click here.
Qualifications
Required:
Option 1: Five years of IT experience performing position specific duties related to managing, operating, and maintaining enterprise desktop, network, client server, virtualization. And two years of service desk or call-center experience.
Option 2: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or closely related field and one year of experience consulting, installing and/or maintaining IT Infrastructure devices and PCs/Laptops/Tablets and general technical support in IT.
AND
- Four years of information technology experience such as analyzing, designing, installing hardware, telecommunications, or network infrastructure equipment or providing customer or technical support in information technology
- Experience with MECM, MS Intune, MS Active Directory, MS Windows operating systems and MS Office suite.
- Experience and knowledge of PC hardware and peripherals
- Experience and knowledge of networking technology to include switches, LAN, WAN, Enterprise systems (e.g. DHCP, DNS Active Directory, SCCM, Exchange).
AND the ability to demonstrate the following, required competencies:
- Security: Preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of ESD systems and data in accordance with the policies, procedures, and best practices established and maintained by the ESD information security team. Immediately report any Security event, incident, or breach in reporting.
-
Technical problem-solving skills: Ability to analyze and solve problems through a methodical process. Can identify the errors or failures on complex services that traverse network components (IT Services) such as firewalls, routing, DHCP and IP addressing, Active Directory, System Center and the endpoint and operating systems. Works independently to analyze complex problems.
- Creates and submits plans to Change Advisory Board for implementation.
- Critical thinking – use purposeful and reflective judgement to process, analyze, interpret, explain, evaluate, illustrate, and compare information.
- Ability to stay current with new/emerging technologies and/or systems.
-
Service analysis: Develops service processes or portions of complex projects. Propose technical solutions that can improve those processes; design information systems to automate business requests or support processes.
- Ability to read and develop diagrams to illustrate business and/or technical (service) processes.
- Understand complex processes traversing multiple infrastructure services.
- Ability to conceptualize and communicate processing alternatives to improve efficiencies or solve business problems.
-
Deployment and testing: Develops configuration change in response to system failure or enhancement. Tests, provides communication plan, pilots and deploys solution to targeted users, devices or the enterprise.
- Ability to write test plans and perform testing on multiple aspects of software and hardware, including usability, functionality, and security concerns.
- Ability to plan, document, and configure components of complex systems.
- Ability to maintain technical documentation written by others and keep it up to date.
- Ability to coordinate a statewide deployment or change, coordinating with support teams, communications teams providing early life support and backout planning.
-
Planning and organization: Ability to effectively organize multiple assignments to produce work products and services that are accurate, thorough, and on time.
- Ability to ensure that tasks are planned and documented in advance of their execution.
- Ability to assist the project manager in estimating and planning project time and completing work breakdowns.
- Ability to coordinate multiple facets of complex projects including people, processes, and resources.
- Ability to evaluate progress on assigned tasks and adjusts organization, priority, time, method, etc. If unsure of competing priorities, contact lead or supervisor for assistance.
- Remains acutely aware of timeframes and successfully meets deadlines. If deadlines are in jeopardy, appropriately seeks assistance or guidance from lead or supervisor.
- Shows ability to respond to changing demands. Demonstrates the ability to prioritize work for the most efficient use of time and resources.
- Ability to lead teams to design solutions and resolve complex problems.
Preferred/Desired Experience:
- Three years of information technology service desk or call center experience.
- Three years of experience using an electronic ticketing system for incidents, work orders, change requests and service requests.
- Three years of troubleshooting and problem resolution for mission critical, enterprise-wide computing environment.
- Certification in ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library).
- Experience with PowerShell.
- Ability to effectively communicate with and among technical and non-technical staff.
- Demonstrated history as a positive team player that shares ideas, solutions, and information with teammates.
Required equity competencies:
The ability to take action to learn and grow.
The ability to take action to meet the needs of others.
Education to Experience Equivalences:
Associate Degree = 2 years | Bachelor Degree = 4 years | Masters or Higher = 5 years
Additional Requirement of Employment:
- Must be able to pass Unemployment Insurance (UI) & Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) claim and fraud check.
Please submit only the required documents as noted below and ensure all Personal Identifying Information (PII) such as Social Security numbers etc. are edited out of your materials for privacy.
Please submit your Cover Letter and Resume with your Online Application through the "Add Attachments" field. A resume will not substitute for the "work experience" section of the application or vice versa. Applications with blank fields, or supplemental question responses with comments such as "see attachments" may be considered incomplete.
Supplemental Information
Opportunity for All
We strive to create a working environment that includes and respects cultural, ethnic, racial, religious, sexual orientation, and gender identity diversity. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, people over 40 years of age, people with religious beliefs, veterans or people with military status, and people of all sexual orientations and gender identities are encouraged to apply.
The Employment Security Department is an equal opportunity employer/program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities.
If you are a person needing assistance in the application process, if you need this job announcement in an alternate format, or if you have general questions about this opportunity, please contact Katie Swanson, 360-742-8208 or the Talent Acquisition Team, or Washington Relay Service 711 prior to the recruitment closing. If you are having technical difficulties creating, accessing, or completing your application, please contact careershelp@des.wa.gov or (360) 664-1960 or toll free (877) 664-1960, Washington Relay 711.
**This Organization Participates in E-Verify**
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Entry Level IT Support Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get an entry level it support specialist job?
Entry level it support specialist roles reward candidates who can demonstrate hands-on ability even without years of paid experience. Hiring managers at this level look for CompTIA A+ or Network+ certification, a homelab or personal project you can describe confidently, and any internship or help-desk volunteer work. Tailoring your resume to show troubleshooting wins and soft skills like clear communication gives you a real edge over applicants who list duties alone.
Which companies hire entry level it support specialists?
Companies hiring entry level it support specialists right now include HDR, OpenAI, and Entech, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. At this level, hiring comes from a broad mix of employers, including managed service providers, mid-size enterprises, healthcare organizations, and government contractors that consistently onboard junior talent to fill help-desk and desktop-support pipelines.
Are there remote entry level it support specialist jobs?
Yes, though on-site roles still dominate at the entry level. About 8% of entry level it support specialist openings are remote or hybrid as of July 2026, which means candidates willing to work on-site will see the widest range of opportunities while remote-only applicants can still find a meaningful share of postings worth targeting.
Are these new grad it support specialist jobs?
Yes, the listings on this page include new grad, recent graduate, and junior it support specialist roles. A new-grad-friendly posting typically welcomes zero to two years of experience, accepts internships or academic projects in place of full-time history, and does not require prior enterprise certifications. If a job description mentions training programs or encourages recent graduates to apply, that is a strong signal the role is built for candidates just entering the field.
Which industries hire the most entry level it support specialists?
Entry Level it support specialist roles concentrate in Education, Manufacturing, and Consulting & Professional Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. These sectors tend to drive consistent entry level hiring because they maintain large end-user environments, refresh hardware regularly, and rely on help-desk pipelines to develop the junior talent they later promote into systems administration and network roles.