Cloud System Administrator
Amentum · Springfield, VA
$150,000–$160,000from the description
Jul 12, 2026
Springfield, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level system administration role supporting a government geospatial data services program on an overnight shift. Day-to-day work centers on deploying, troubleshooting, and maintaining cloud infrastructure (primarily AWS), managing Linux and Windows systems, monitoring system health, and coordinating issue resolution with internal teams and agency stakeholders. The role suits an experienced cloud/systems administrator holding an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
Senior level · 5+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · TS/SCI clearance · 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
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $128,188 (middle half $100,819–$156,589). 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 Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
TS/SCI with CI-scope Polygraph is a hard gate — explicitly stated in both the body and the Minimum Requirements section.
The degree requirement is flexible: a Bachelor's + 5 years, Associate's + 7 years, or 8 years of experience with no degree all satisfy the minimum. Because equivalent experience is accepted in lieu of a degree, the degree requirement is set to None; the overall years minimum reflects the lowest qualifying experience threshold (5 years with a Bachelor's).
A cloud certification (preferably AWS, OCI, or Google Cloud) is listed as a Required Certification in the Minimum Requirements section. This is captured via the AWS (or similar) the required/preferred flag skill rather than as a separate credential field, which this schema does not support.
Elasticsearch Kibana and AWS CloudWatch appear together in the body as monitoring/dashboarding examples — both are marked required as they are cited in the essential responsibilities narrative as the tools used for the core monitoring duty.
All Preferred Qualifications items (Linux/Windows administration, Active Directory, EC2/IAM/S3, ServiceNow/Jira/Confluence, LDAP, MobaXterm/Putty, JSON IAM/S3 policies, AWS C2S, OCI) are listed under the 'Preferred Qualifications' heading and are therefore not hard gates.
The role is on-site in Springfield, VA (overnight shift, 11 PM–7 AM); the posting explicitly states it is not remote.
The alt SOC 15-1252 (Software Developers) was considered because the JD mentions integration, development, and Scrum/backlog work, but the primary day-to-day duties — cloud system administration, troubleshooting, patching, monitoring, and OS/application deployment — align more squarely with 15-1244.
Requires a TS/SCI 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.
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