Systems Administrator (Experienced or Senior) at The Boeing Company
Herndon, VA
$102,850–$173,650from the description
Jul 12, 2026
Herndon, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A rotating shift-work system administration role supporting mission-critical platforms and infrastructure for government and commercial customers. Day-to-day work covers infrastructure management, OS and software support, information security configuration, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and change control processes — sometimes under significant time pressure. Suited to candidates holding an active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph and hands-on experience administering Linux/Unix or Windows environments.
Mid level · 3+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Mid.
“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
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 (6)
The posting covers two levels: Experienced (Level 3, 3+ years, $102,850–$139,150/yr) and Senior (Level 4, 5+ years, $128,350–$173,650/yr). The advertised title includes both; seniority is assessed at the minimum gate (Level 3 / 3+ years → Mid). The compensation range shown spans both levels combined.
A TS/SCI clearance with an adjudicated Counterintelligence or Full Scope Polygraph is a hard gate explicitly stated in both the Basic Qualifications and the Security Clearance section.
Linux/Unix or Windows platform experience is listed as a hard gate in Basic Qualifications; Linux is used as the primary name with Unix and Windows as alternatives since any one platform satisfies the requirement.
All Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, virtualization (VMware ESXi/Hyper-V/AHV), cloud (AWS/Azure), VDI, Confluence, and Jira skills appear exclusively under the Preferred Qualifications section.
An Information Security Analysts (15-1212) runner-up is noted because the role explicitly includes information security support and configurations as a core responsibility alongside general sysadmin duties.
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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