Mid-Level System Administrator at Belay Technologies
Annapolis Junction, MD
$114,000–$164,000from the description
Aug 10, 2026
Annapolis Junction, MD
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A System Administrator role on an intelligence-community program, responsible for day-to-day operations, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting of servers, storage, network devices, and enterprise applications across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. The position also covers Tier 1/2 help desk support, system hardening, patching, and technical documentation, with exposure to DevOps tooling and cloud modernization efforts. Requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
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 Aug 12, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (11)
A TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is explicitly required as a hard gate.
The degree requirement is effectively waived: a Bachelor's plus 10 years is required, but 15 years of experience alone is accepted in lieu of a degree — so no degree is hard-gated.
10 years is used as the overall years minimum (the lower threshold when a degree is held); the 15-year path is the no-degree alternative.
PowerShell and Bash are listed together as a single scripting requirement; they are emitted as separate skills with each listed as an alternative for the other, since either satisfies the requirement.
System hardening and ISSO/compliance experience appear in the required skills section; 'system hardening' is retained as a concrete operational practice even though it is not a named tool.
DoD 8570 IAT Level I compliance is listed as a hard requirement in the required skills section.
The Technology Stack section (AWS, Ansible, Docker, ElasticSearch, Terraform, Jenkins, Linux, Windows, GitLab) is narrative context for the environment; those tools are captured but marked preferred unless they also appear in the required or desired sections.
The 'Candidates are desired to have' section maps to preferred skills; AWS, Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, STIG, and RMF are drawn from there.
The role sits between 15-1244 (systems administration) and 15-1212 (security analysis) given the emphasis on compliance, hardening, STIG, RMF, and ATO support alongside core sysadmin duties; 15-1244 is chosen as primary because the day-to-day work centers on operating and maintaining infrastructure.
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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