System Administrator at Visionist, Inc.
Annapolis Junction, MD
$130,000–$220,000from the description
Jul 7, 2026
Annapolis Junction, MD
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on systems administration role supporting a cleared intelligence community program, focused on installing, configuring, and maintaining high-performance and GPU-accelerated compute hardware, particularly NVIDIA platforms. Day-to-day work includes hardware relocation, technical documentation, troubleshooting networked systems, and supporting virtualization and future AI/cloud infrastructure. Suited to an experienced Linux sysadmin with a background in data center or HPC environments who holds an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
Senior level · 9+ years · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD · Bachelor's required · 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 (6)
The job title is 'System Administrator' and the day-to-day work centers on installing, configuring, and maintaining high-performance compute hardware (especially NVIDIA GPU platforms), Linux sysadmin tasks, and data center support — consistent with 15-1244. However, the requirements section oddly states '9 years of experience in software development' rather than systems administration; this appears to be a copy-paste error in the JD, as no software development skills are listed anywhere in the responsibilities or requirements. The role's actual described work is clearly sysadmin/infrastructure operations, not software development.
The TS/SCI with polygraph clearance is explicitly required as a hard gate ('Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph is required').
Virtualization and hypervisor experience is listed in the requirements section but framed with 'Familiarity with' — a softer qualifier — so it is treated as preferred rather than a hard gate.
The 9-year experience figure is taken from the requirements section verbatim ('9 years of experience in software development'), though contextually it appears to describe overall professional experience rather than software development specifically.
U.S. citizenship is required; green card holders and permanent residents are explicitly ineligible.
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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