
Systems Administrator
Sterling, VAFull-time$133–226K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
BAE Systems seeks Systems Administrators at junior through senior levels to support a classified Intelligence Community customer. The role manages and maintains classified computing infrastructure and supports enterprise services, including desktop platforms, secure and unsecure voice, secure video, and internet. Administrators help ensure security compliance and contribute to procurement, deployment, operations, maintenance, and monthly metrics reporting.
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Job Description
At BAE Systems, we believe your career should be filled with innovation and discovery. And that's exactly what you'll find here. Join us as our team develops, maintains, and protects the latest technology that directly aids in the defense of national security.
As part of our team, you ll be joining a diverse group of driven professionals who are modernizing legacy infrastructure and applications as part of a no fail mission, all the while protecting systems with the most-current cybersecurity practices. With us, you ll be able to make an impact while you hone your skills and grow in your career.
We are looking for Systems Administrators of all levels (junior to senior) to add their skills to our team supporting a classified customer in the Intelligence Community. In this role, you will will play a vital part in managing and maintaining classified computing infrastructure while ensuring strict adherence to security compliance requirements. You will collaborate to manage the procurement, deployment, operations and maintenance of enterprise services, which include desktop platforms, secure and unsecure voice, secure video, and internet, and deliver a Monthly Metrics Analysis Report. This is an exciting and dynamic job opportunity where you ll not only work on an important project, but help advance the U.S mission to protect our Nation and partners.
Required Education, Experience, & Skills
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Bachelor's or Master s Degree(s)
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Bachelor's Degree
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Experience managing the procurement, deployment, and O&M of enterprise services
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Experience establishing administrator and service accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, and installing system-wide software
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Experience developing and monitoring policies and standards on the use of computing resources, to include drafting a monthly Metrics Analysis Report
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Expertise in customer service and resolving technical problems
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Knowledge of complex IT environments involving shared networks, voice & video, and internet
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Excellent oral and written communication
Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
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Bachelor s or Master s degree in a technical or business discipline
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Experience working in a 24/7/365 on-call support environment
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $132962 - $226035
Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.
Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20 hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
Systems Administrator
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How this job compares
Set against the 2,521 open Systems Administrator jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$133–226K/yr
- Virginia median$94–157K/yr199 salary ranges
- US median$85–130K/yr1,681 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $179K, is 44% above the Virginia median midpoint ($125K) — in the top quarter of Systems Administrator salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 267 open Systems Administrator jobs in Virginia and 2,521 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- Leidos21 open
- Serco21 open
- CACI International19 open
- Experience
- Systems Administrator postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 6 years (2,169 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 723 of the 2,521 open Systems Administrator jobs (29%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 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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