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Systems Administrator

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Pearl City, HIJob$120–160K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$120–160K/yr
Location
Pearl City, HI
Work Authorization
US work authorization required

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification Or HigherTS/SCI clearance

Job overview

SAIC seeks a Systems Administrator at the K. Mark Takai Pacific Warfighting Center in Pearl City, Hawaii, supporting USPACOM J76. The role maintains, enhances, and upgrades applications and services in an enterprise environment and participates in implementing and maintaining cloud and on-premises IT infrastructure. Candidates need a bachelor's degree and nine years of related experience, or an experience substitute, along with specified technical knowledge, certification, clearance, and citizenship.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Network ProtocolsOperating SystemsInfrastructure HardwareSecurity ComplianceCloud Technology

Qualifications

Bachelor's or 13 Years Experience9+ Years Related ExperienceDoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification or HigherActive Secret Clearance or Ability to Obtain TS/SCIUS Citizenship

Full job description

Description

SAIC is seeking a Systems Administrator located at K. Mark Takai Pacific Warfighting Center in Pearl City, Hawaii to support USPACOM J76 to maintain, enhance and upgrade a myriad of applications and services, in an enterprise environment and participate in implementation and maintenance of Cloud and On-Prem IT Infrastructure to support the customer.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

  • Provide level I and II systems support to Helpdesk and staff of PWC.

  • Create and manage user and group accounts across enclaves of responsibilities.

  • Create and maintain baseline system images and configuration using MECM.

  • Respond to and implement Cyber Tasking Orders.

  • Apply patches to systems and conduct regression tests.

  • Apply STIGs and conduct regression tests.

  • Set up and monitor backups. Restore files as needed. Routinely test restoral process.

  • Monitor cloud consumption and cost.

  • Monitor hardware health.

  • Monitor services: Domain Controller, Email, File and Print Servers, DNS, SharePoint, ADFS, WAP, OOS, DNS, SQL, ClearPass, DHCP, MECM, VDI, Wyse Management, Log Consolidation, Fortra, PKI.

  • Provide cloud engineering support: Entra, Intune, Azure, M365.

  • Upgrade and configure infrastructure hardware and software.

  • Update HW/SW List.

  • Update Systems and Network Diagrams.

  • Write and update SOPs and documentation.

Qualifications

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Bachelors and nine (9)+ years of related experience; additional four (4) years of experience considered in lieu of degree.

  • Foundational knowledge of network protocols: DHCP, DNS, SMTP, etc.

  • Foundational knowledge of operating systems: Windows 11, Windows Server, Linux, ESXi.

  • Foundational knowledge of infrastructure hardware and appliances.

  • Foundational knowledge of security compliance in a DoD environment: STIGs, GPOs, SCAP, FedRAMP.

  • Foundational knowledge of cloud and cloud technology.

REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS:

  • Must have a current DoD 8570 IAT Level II, or higher, certification such as Security+ CE, CySA+, etc., prior to hire.

REQUIRED CLEARANCES:

  • Must have an active Secret clearance with ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.

  • Must be a current US Citizen.

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2618653

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 2,290 open Systems Administrator jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$120–160K/yr
  • Hawaii median$100–131K/yr43 salary ranges
  • US median$93–145K/yr1,420 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $140K, is 17% above the Hawaii median midpoint ($120K) — in the top quarter of Systems Administrator salary ranges in Hawaii.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 48 open Systems Administrator jobs in Hawaii and 2,290 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Experience
This posting asks for at least 9 years of experience — more than three in four Systems Administrator postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,926 postings).
Education
352 of the 2,290 open Systems Administrator jobs (15%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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