Systems/Network Administrator at Visionist, Inc.
Fort Meade, MD
$110,000–$170,000from the description
Aug 3, 2026
Fort Meade, MD
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role supports a cleared intelligence community program by installing, configuring, and maintaining physical servers, networking equipment, and virtualized infrastructure in development and production environments. Day-to-day work includes Linux system administration, hardware troubleshooting, network connectivity verification, security patching for compliance, and writing Ansible automation scripts. It suits an experienced infrastructure administrator comfortable with hands-on rack-and-stack work in a classified setting.
Mid level · 5+ years · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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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 4, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
A Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline is listed as a requirement, but the posting explicitly allows 4 additional years of experience to substitute for the degree — so no minimum degree is hard-gated.
Virtualization experience (VMware, Xen, or Nutanix) is explicitly called 'a plus' in the requirements section, so it is marked preferred despite appearing near required items.
Ansible (or similar configuration management) is also explicitly called 'a plus' in the requirements section and is marked preferred accordingly.
Security patching, vulnerability remediation, and compliance understanding are described as 'preferred' in the requirements section.
The alt SOC (15-1252) is noted because the role includes Ansible automation scripting, but the dominant day-to-day work is clearly infrastructure operations and administration rather than software development.
An active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is a hard gate — candidates without one cannot be considered.
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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