System Administrator - Secret Clearance
Maania Consultancy Services · New London Groton, CT
$85,000from the description
Jul 22, 2026
New London Groton, CT
Jul 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A full-time System Administrator role supporting IT operations in a Department of Defense environment, requiring a Secret clearance. Day-to-day work involves help desk and support technician operations, Active Directory administration, and assisting military and government personnel. Suited to candidates with several years of IT experience and relevant CompTIA and Windows certifications.
Mid level · 4+ years · New London-Norwich, CT · 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 $108,208 (middle half $105,122–$135,097). 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 'System Administrator' and the described duties (help desk operations, support technician operations, Active Directory) suggest a systems/IT operations role; 15-1244 is the best fit, though the heavy help-desk framing could also point toward 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts).
CompTIA Security+ is listed under Qualifications with firm language ('or equivalent') — the equivalency qualifier means the specific cert is interchangeable but the underlying security certification requirement is a hard gate. No common named alternative cert was specified in the posting.
Windows 10 Operating System Training Cert is listed as a hard qualification; treated as a requirement for Windows 10 proficiency/certification.
Active Directory is listed under the Education/Training/Experience section with knowledge-level language; however, it is the only named platform technology in that section and is central to the sysadmin role — included as a hard gate.
Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook) and Adobe Acrobat appear in the Education/Training/Experience narrative section with general 'knowledge of' framing — treated as preferred rather than hard gates.
The salary is stated as a fixed point ($85K/year), so the bottom of the pay band and the top of the pay band are both set to 85000.
DOD environment experience is listed as preferred ('preferably in a DOD environment') — no specific named technology is associated with it, so it is not emitted as a skill.
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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