PMO Sr. System Administrator at Peraton
Annapolis Junction, MD
$135,000–$216,000from the description
Jun 30, 2026
Annapolis Junction, MD
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level systems administration role supporting the Program Management Office of a large Intelligence Community engineering contract. Day-to-day work covers IT infrastructure management, Windows OS configuration, network component maintenance, and Tier 1/Tier 2 help desk support. The position suits an experienced SA with an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph and a background in information assurance and network operations.
Senior level · 10+ years · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD · 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 $125,654 (middle half $96,394–$162,956). 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 (9)
The role requires 10 years of Systems Administrator experience with a Bachelor's degree; however, a HS Diploma/GED plus 5 additional years of SA experience may be substituted for the degree — the degree requirement is set to None accordingly.
An active TS/SCI clearance WITH polygraph is explicitly required as a hard gate.
The 2-year experience requirements for 'Modern operating systems and network architectures' and 'certification and accreditation / IA' are stated under the required qualifications section and are captured as the required/preferred flag skills.
DoD 8570 IAT Level 1 and Security+ are listed together as a single hard requirement; both are captured separately since Security+ is the named minimum certification.
Architecture development/design, Risk Assessments, and IA Metrics gathering appear in the required section but name no specific tool or technology, so they are omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
All skills under 'Individual Capabilities/Experience Desired' (Active Directory, Cisco switches, PuTTY, VLANs, TCP/IP, VoIP, CISSP/CEH/CCNA etc.) are preferred, not required.
The alt SOC 15-1212 (Information Security Analysts) is noted as a runner-up given the significant IA/certification-and-accreditation and DoD 8570 compliance emphasis in the required qualifications.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): DoD 8570 IAT Level 1.
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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