Linux Systems Administrator at SAIC
Pearl City, HI
$120,001–$160,000from the description
Jul 13, 2026
Pearl City, HI
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
Senior level · 9+ years · Urban Honolulu, HI · Secret clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $104,294 (middle half $89,312–$132,317). 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 (7)
The role requires an active Secret clearance at hire, with the ability to obtain TS/SCI — the hard gate at hire is Secret, so the clearance requirement is set to Secret rather than TopSecretSci.
The degree requirement is effectively waived: the JD explicitly accepts 4 additional years of experience in lieu of a Bachelor's degree, so the degree requirement is set to None.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is primarily operational sysadmin (15-1244), but the explicit Terraform IaC development and Ansible playbook authoring introduce a meaningful software-development signal (15-1252). The balance of duties — patching, provisioning, monitoring, compliance — tips toward 15-1244.
The DoD 8570 IAT II certification (Security+ CE or greater) is listed as a hard pre-hire requirement; Security+ CE is captured as the named baseline, with higher certs (CySA+, CASP+, etc.) also satisfying it per DoD 8570.
Red Hat Satellite is inferred from 'Maintain Satellite Servers and local repos' — this is the standard Red Hat Satellite product in RHEL environments.
The posting states 10% travel and is explicitly on-site (ORA_ON_SITE); remote is set to false.
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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