IT System Administrator at Freeform
Los Angeles, CA
$80,000–$100,000from the description
Jul 19, 2026
Los Angeles, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An entry-level infrastructure and support role at an on-site manufacturing facility, covering the full breadth of day-to-day IT operations: helpdesk and desktop support across Windows and Linux, on-premise servers, virtualization, SAN storage, LAN/WiFi networking, endpoint management via Intune and Active Directory, AV systems, and employee onboarding. The role suits someone with at least a year of hands-on sysadmin experience who is comfortable working across both user-facing support and back-end infrastructure.
Junior level · 1+ years · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 290 people in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (network and computer systems administrators). range 60–440
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $108,627 (middle half $88,065–$134,177). 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 posting is titled 'Junior System Administrator' and explicitly frames this as an early-career role, consistent with the 1+ year experience requirement and the instruction to 'work with senior IT staff on larger infrastructure projects.'
Azure AD / Entra ID appears in the required qualifications section; both names refer to the same Microsoft identity platform — captured as 'Azure AD' with Entra ID implied.
Grafana and Prometheus are listed together under 'Nice to Have' as a monitoring stack; Grafana is named as the primary skill with Prometheus in alternatives since they are commonly paired but serve distinct functions. Both are preferred.
Ansible and PowerShell DSC are explicitly offered as interchangeable alternatives for configuration management under 'Nice to Have.'
CMMC and NIST 800-171 are listed together as a single compliance familiarity item under 'Nice to Have'; captured as one preferred skill with the other as an alternative.
Scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell) is listed under 'Nice to Have' as a single interchangeable requirement; Python is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
Cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, GCP) is listed under 'Nice to Have' as interchangeable options; AWS is used as the primary name.
The role is fully on-site in Hawthorne, CA (Los Angeles metro), five days a week with very limited exceptions.
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