Linux System Administrator
Dark Wolf Solutions · College Park, MD
$70,000–$130,000from the description
Jul 27, 2026
College Park, MD
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Linux System Administrator role supporting a DoD customer's on-premises IaaS, hypervisor, and virtualization platform. The position involves deploying and maintaining enterprise Linux servers and VMware infrastructure, implementing system hardening and configuration management, and using infrastructure-as-code tooling to provision environments. Candidates must hold an active Secret clearance and be comfortable working in both classified and unclassified network environments.
Mid level · 3+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Secret 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 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The alt SOC (15-1252 Software Developers) is worth considering because the role explicitly calls for infrastructure-as-code and configuration-as-code practices, but the primary day-to-day work is operating and maintaining Linux servers and VMware hypervisor infrastructure — consistent with 15-1244.
The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification is listed under Required Qualifications, making Kubernetes a hard gate even though no years figure is attached.
RHEL and Ubuntu are listed as named examples of required Linux distributions; either satisfies the requirement, so they are captured as mutual alternatives.
The role is hybrid (3 days on-site in College Park, MD; 2 days remote) — not fully remote.
A Bachelor's degree is listed under Desired Qualifications only, so the degree requirement is set to None (a high school diploma is the stated minimum).
The salary range ($70,000–$130,000/year) is explicitly described as commensurate with experience, indicating a wide band tied to seniority level at hire.
The posting explicitly states W2 full-time direct employment only — no C2C or 1099 contractors.
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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