St. Louis, MO

Salary
Posted
Jun 29, 2026
Location
St. Louis, MO
Last confirmed open
Jul 21, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

This role centers on administering AWS infrastructure for an Intelligence Community customer, covering provisioning and configuration of cloud resources, security enforcement, performance monitoring, and backup management. Day-to-day work also involves automating routine tasks through scripting and AWS tooling, and coordinating with development, operations, and security teams. It suits a technically grounded systems administrator comfortable operating in a classified, multi-network government environment.

Mid level · 4+ years · National · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance · Contract

Must have (6)
AWSEBSVPCIAMAWS CLIPython or Shell Scripting
Nice to have (1)
Linux

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

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What won't set you apart
Python70%AWS50%IAM40%

Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.

What the occupation pays Median $101,310 (middle half $79,725–$129,425).

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 (12)

Location is not specified in the posting beyond 'multiple locations worldwide' supporting an Intelligence Community customer; CBSA and state fields are left blank.

The role is titled 'Systems Administrator' and primarily involves operating and managing AWS infrastructure (provisioning, monitoring, backup/recovery, security enforcement) rather than building new software or platforms — classified under 15-1244. However, the cybersecurity emphasis (access control, vulnerability management, security domains) makes 15-1212 a plausible runner-up.

Clearance requirement is TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI (Counterintelligence) polygraph — treated as a TopSecretSci gate.

The degree requirement is a Bachelor's in a technical field with no 'or equivalent experience' language — treated as a hard requirement.

Experience range is stated as 4–6 years; the overall years minimum is set to the minimum of 4.

Python and Bash are listed together as interchangeable scripting options; Python is the primary with Bash as an alternative.

DoD 8140.01 / DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II certification is listed as a required certification and treated as a hard gate.

CSSP Infrastructure Support certification and Linux-related certifications appear under 'Desired Certifications' — Linux is captured as a preferred skill; CSSP is a certification rather than a named technology and is omitted from the skills list per schema guidance.

No compensation figures are provided in the posting.

Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): DoD 8570 IAT Level II.

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.

Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.

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