Network Administrator at SAIC
Colorado Springs, CO
$80,001–$120,000from the description
Jul 27, 2026
Colorado Springs, CO
Jul 28, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A network administration role at SAIC supporting a DoD environment in Colorado Springs, focused on operating and maintaining Cisco and Juniper routing, switching, and firewall infrastructure. Day-to-day work covers configuring network hardware, responding to vulnerability directives (IAVM), managing ACLs and VPNs, supporting incident response, and ensuring network telemetry flows to SIEM systems. Suits an experienced network admin with an active TS/SCI clearance.
Mid level · 4+ years · Colorado Springs, CO · 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 $104,090 (middle half $86,062–$133,513). 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)
The title 'Journeyman Network Administrator' implies a mid-level practitioner; the 4–6 year experience requirement and scope (operating existing infrastructure, no org-wide design authority) support a Mid classification despite the DoD/enterprise context.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … or equivalent experience,' so no formal degree is hard-gated.
Cisco IOS and NX-OS are listed together as the Cisco platform family; they are distinct OS lines but both are required for the same hardware management gate — captured as a paired must-have.
CCNA and JNCIA are listed under Desired Qualifications and are genuinely interchangeable certifications for this role — captured as a single preferred skill with the other as an alternative.
Python and Ansible appear together under Desired Qualifications for network automation scripting — captured as preferred with each listed as an alternative for the other.
Centralized logging/telemetry analysis tools are mentioned under Desired Qualifications but no specific product is named, so no skill entry was created (no concrete named technology).
An alt SOC of 15-1212 (Information Security Analysts) is noted because the role has meaningful security responsibilities (IAVM, firewall/perimeter management, SIEM integration), though the primary day-to-day work is operating and maintaining network infrastructure.
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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