Systems Administrator Senior at BAE Systems
Westminster, CO
$97,008–$164,914from the description
Aug 18, 2026
Westminster, CO
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This is an on-site Windows and VMware systems administration role supporting engineering programs at a defense contractor. The position involves installing, configuring, patching, and maintaining physical and virtual Windows servers and workstations, managing Active Directory, and supporting engineering applications in a secure, classified environment. It suits an experienced sysadmin comfortable with virtualization, scripting, and operating under security compliance frameworks.
Mid level · 4+ years · Secret clearance · Full-time
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Mid.
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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). 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 20, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The job title in the posting is 'Systems Administrator Senior' (BAE Systems internal title), which maps to an advertised Senior level, but the stated minimum of 4+ years of experience and the scope of the role (individual contributor, single-team infrastructure support) are consistent with a Mid-level band.
Location is not explicitly stated in the posting body. BAE Systems operates multiple US campuses; no CBSA could be reliably determined from the text alone.
A Bachelor's degree is listed as required, but the posting explicitly states 'Related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education,' so the degree requirement is treated as None.
DoD 8570 compliance is listed under required skills; this is a compliance/certification framework (e.g., CompTIA Security+, CISSP) rather than a named technology tool, but it functions as a hard gate for this cleared role and is retained.
Software license management tools appear under Preferred but no specific product is named, so no skill entry was created for that item.
The alternative occupation code (15-1252 Software Developers) was considered given the PowerShell scripting requirement, but the primary day-to-day work is clearly operating and maintaining infrastructure rather than building software, so 15-1244 is the clear primary classification.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): VMware vRealize Operations Manager.
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.
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