Junior Azure Cloud Administrator
Rockville, MDJob$40–80K/yrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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SAIC seeks a Junior Cloud Administrator to support the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Rockville, Maryland. The role focuses on foundational Azure administration, including user access, basic resource provisioning, monitoring, backup management, and troubleshooting under the guidance of senior cloud professionals. Candidates must be U.S. citizens able to obtain a Public Trust and have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. Azure certifications are highly preferred.
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Description
We are seeking a Junior Cloud Administrator to join our team supporting the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Rockville, MD.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Global Infrastructure and Development Acquisition provides a wide variety of Information Technology (IT) support services to the NRC Headquarters located in Rockville, MD; with four Regional Offices.
An entry-level Azure Administrator primarily focuses on foundational upkeep, user administration, routine monitoring, and basic provisioning under the guidance of senior cloud professionals.
Core Responsibilities
User & Access Management: Create, modify, and delete user accounts, groups, and permissions within Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD).
Basic Resource Provisioning: Deploy pre-configured virtual machines (VMs), storage accounts, and standard network security groups based on established templates.
Routine Monitoring: Keep track of active system health alerts in Azure Monitor, log issues, and check cost management dashboards for budget anomalies.
Data Backup Management: Run, verify, and restore backups for virtual machines and databases using Azure Backup and Azure Recovery Services.
Basic Troubleshooting: Handle internal helpdesk tickets relating to password resets, access denials, and unresponsive cloud environments
Qualifications
Qualifications & Requirements
Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain a Public Trust
Education & Experience : Bachelors with 0 to 2 years of experience in system administration, IT helpdesk, or general cloud support. A degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent experience.
Technical Knowledge : Understanding fundamental networking concepts (IP addressing, DNS, subnets) and operating systems (Windows Server, Linux).
Certifications : Highly preferred to hold Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) or working actively toward the Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) certification.
Soft Skills : Quick learner with strong troubleshooting skills and a desire to learn Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like PowerShell or Bash.
Target salary range: $40,001 - $80,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
REQNUMBER: 2618864
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 670 open System Administrator jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$40–80K/yr
- Maryland median$114–181K/yr56 salary ranges
- US median$96–140K/yr416 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $60K, is 60% below the Maryland median midpoint ($150K) — in the lowest quarter of System Administrator salary ranges in Maryland.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 94 open System Administrator jobs in Maryland and 670 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Maryland
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- Experience
- This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four System Administrator postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 519 postings).
- Education
- 169 of the 670 open System Administrator jobs (25%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 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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