Systems Administrator I at Adams 12 Five Star Schools
THORNTON, CO
$61,692–$92,537from the description
Aug 16, 2026
THORNTON, CO
Aug 18, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Systems Administrator I role at a public school district responsible for monitoring, maintaining, and troubleshooting IT infrastructure including servers, networks, storage, and end-user systems. The position involves incident response, security administration, and supporting IT service level agreements. It suits an early-career IT professional comfortable with Windows and/or Linux environments and basic virtualization technologies.
Junior level · Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,300 people in the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (network and computer systems administrators). range 980–1,700
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
What the occupation pays Median $107,401 (middle half $89,864–$133,850). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 18, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting lists an Associate's degree in a relevant field as the baseline education requirement, but explicitly allows substitution with two years of relevant experience — so no formal degree is hard-gated.
Windows and Linux are presented as alternatives ('and/or'), so they are captured as a single skill with Linux as an alternative. VMware is explicitly flagged as 'a plus' and is marked preferred accordingly.
The one-to-two years of IT infrastructure experience is framed as 'preferred,' not required, and covers a broad list of domains (desktop management, virtualization, storage, networking, application server support, software development, systems integration) — the most concrete named areas are captured as preferred skills.
Industry certifications are listed as a preference, not a hard requirement, and no specific certifications are named.
The posted salary range is $61,692–$92,537/year (full-time, 1.0 FTE), with the note that new-hire placement typically does not exceed the mid-point of $77,114.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): desktop management, storage administration.
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