System Administrator (Entry Level to SME) TS/SCI with Poly REQUIRED at CGI Technologies and Solutions, Inc.
Arlington, VA
$89,600–$204,000from the description
Jul 24, 2026
Arlington, VA
Jul 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A multi-tier posting covering System Administrator roles from entry level through subject-matter expert, all supporting national security work in Arlington, VA with a hybrid option. Day-to-day responsibilities scale with seniority — from basic helpdesk support, hardware setup, and account management at the lower end, to architecting enterprise infrastructure, leading incident response, and building automation pipelines at the upper end. An active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance is required at all levels.
Senior level · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · TS/SCI 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 $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)
This posting covers a wide band of levels — Entry Level through SME — under a single requisition. The seniority is assessed as Senior because the full scope of required qualifications spans up to 12 years of experience and includes enterprise architecture, advanced scripting, and security compliance responsibilities; the title itself carries no explicit level label, so the title states no level.
An active TS/SCI with Polygraph is an explicit hard gate for ALL levels in this posting.
Degree requirement is set to None because every level accepts a High School Diploma/GED combined with sufficient years of experience as a full substitute for any degree.
The posting is categorized as 'Database Administration' in the header, but the actual role description is clearly System Administration — that category label appears to be a posting-system artifact and was not used for SOC classification.
Terraform, Ansible, and Chef appear under Senior/SME responsibilities sections rather than a formal required-qualifications block, so they are marked preferred. Similarly, Datadog, SolarWinds, Exchange, VMware ESXi, and Proxmox appear in context/stack descriptions rather than hard-gate language.
The hybrid working model is noted as acceptable, but the role is Arlington-office-based and is not fully remote.
The compensation range of $89,600–$204,000/year spans the full Entry Level–SME band and is not broken out by sub-level.
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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