Senior Systems Administrator at Serco
Joint Base Lewis McChord, WA
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Jun 30, 2026
Joint Base Lewis McChord, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level systems administration role based in Bahrain, supporting U.S. Navy Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection shore installations across the region, including sites in Isa Air Base and Djibouti. Day-to-day work covers maintaining Windows and VMware environments, applying security hardening (STIGs, patch management, information assurance), managing Active Directory, and providing both preventive and corrective maintenance for C4I systems. Suited to a cleared IT professional with a DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification and hands-on Windows Server and virtualization experience.
Senior level · 4+ years · National · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $101,310 (middle half $79,725–$129,425).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
This role is based in Bahrain (with additional sites in Isa Air Base and Djibouti), so US compensation benchmarks do not apply. The US-based flag is set to false.
The degree requirement accepts either a Bachelor's in a STEM field with 4 years of experience OR a High School Diploma with 8 years of experience — since equivalent experience is explicitly accepted in lieu of a degree, the degree requirement is set to None. The overall years minimum reflects the lower bound (4 years with a degree).
CompTIA Security+ is listed as the minimum acceptable DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification — both are captured as separate required skills since the JD explicitly names both the cert and the framework standard.
The role has a significant information assurance / cybersecurity component (STIG, patch management, vulnerability remediation, RMF), which makes 15-1212 a plausible runner-up, but the primary day-to-day work is systems administration and O&M, so 15-1244 is the primary classification.
Trellix HBSS, ACAS, SCAP, VRAM, eMASS, DoD RMF, CCNA, and database tools (Microsoft SQL / Oracle SQL) all appear under the 'Additional desired experience and skills' section and are marked as preferred accordingly.
No salary figures were published in the posting text despite a reference to a salary range 'at the top of this posting' — no compensation values could be extracted.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): DoD 8570 IAT Level II.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
This role's work location reads as outside the US — the candidate pool, comp, and contention benchmarks here are US-only (BLS employment, Adzuna/USAJOBS demand, and certified H-1B wages), so treat them as a rough US reference, not a local market.
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