ME00669-Systems Administrator 2 at Momentum Engineering, Inc.
Glen Burnie, MD
$130,000–$170,000
Aug 8, 2026
Glen Burnie, MD
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A System Administrator role supporting enterprise IT infrastructure for a national security customer, covering day-to-day administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting of client/server, storage, network, and OS environments across Windows and Linux. The position also involves DevOps automation work — writing Ansible playbooks, provisioning AWS cloud infrastructure, and building Terraform-based Infrastructure-as-Code solutions — making it a hybrid ops-and-automation role suited to candidates comfortable in both traditional sysadmin and cloud/IaC disciplines.
Mid level · TS/SCI 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
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $101,310 (middle half $79,725–$129,425).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 10, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
Location is not stated in the posting. Given the NSA Full Scope Polygraph requirement, the role is very likely in the Fort Meade/Columbia, MD area, but no CBSA could be confirmed from the text alone.
The role blends traditional systems administration (Tier 1/2 support, OS administration, hardware troubleshooting) with meaningful DevOps/IaC work (Ansible, Terraform, AWS). 15-1244 was chosen because the primary framing is sysadmin operations; 15-1252 is a credible alternative given the automation and IaC responsibilities.
DoD 8570 IAT Level I compliance is explicitly required in the qualifications section and is treated as a hard gate.
Salary is described only as dependent on experience — no figures are provided.
The Desired Qualifications section lists several additional areas (enterprise monitoring/logging platforms, performance tuning, scripting, highly available systems experience); these are captured as preferred. 'Infrastructure as Code' and 'DevSecOps/DevOps environments' appear there as well, even though Ansible/Terraform/AWS are already required — the desired-section framing suggests broader depth in those areas is a plus beyond the baseline.
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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