Senior Systems Administrator at Belay Technologies
Laurel, MD
$164,000–$200,000from the description
Jul 1, 2026
Laurel, MD
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level systems administration role supporting the lifecycle and modernization of government education and training platforms. Day-to-day work covers managing Windows Server and Linux environments across on-premise and cloud (AWS) infrastructure, IAVA patching and reporting, GPO administration, PowerShell scripting, and infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Ansible and Terraform. Requires a TS/SCI clearance with polygraph and 15 years of relevant SA experience.
Senior level · 15+ 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)
TS/SCI with polygraph is a hard gate — candidates must hold an active clearance at this level.
A Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline is listed as required, but 5 years of additional SA experience may be substituted for it; the degree requirement is therefore set to None per the equivalency rule.
15 years of SA experience is the stated minimum; the JD allows 5 additional years of experience to substitute for the degree, but the base role requirement remains 15 years.
DoD 8570 IAT Level I appears in BOTH the required skills section AND the desired skills section. It is treated as required based on its primary placement in the required block.
PowerShell and GPO appear in the primary responsibilities narrative and PowerShell is also called out under desired skills; they are marked preferred as they are not explicitly listed in the hard-required skills block.
AWS-specific services (EC2, Lambda, CloudFormation), Ansible, and Terraform appear only in the responsibilities narrative and not in the required skills block; they are marked preferred accordingly.
Role is on-site in Columbia, MD (Baltimore/Washington area); no remote option is indicated. Core hours of M–F 10am–2pm are required.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): DoD 8570 IAT Level I.
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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