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# Systems Administrator, Senior

- **Company:** Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
- **Location:** Dahlgren, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $77,500.0 - $176,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Business Analytics Applications, Linux, User Accounts
- **Published:** July 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9039517/systems-administrator-senior

## About the Role

Your combination of people skills and technical expertise makes you the team hero, solving one problem after another. What if you could use those skills to improve the technology supporting the Department of Defense? We're looking for a systems administrator who specializes in Linux to help us deploy and maintain Linux based analytical platforms.

As a systems administrator on our project, you'll deploy and harden operating systems, deploy and configure analytical tools, implement STIGs, manage user accounts, update and patch critical systems, while ensuring the current infrastructure is functional and available. Your technical expertise will be vital as you identify problem areas and opportunities for improvement in a mission critical network. Your experience and communication skills will come in handy as you turn metrics into information and communicate their meaning. This is an opportunity to gain experience in deploying and configuring analytical tooling and IT Automation. We focus on growing as a team, so we'll share techniques, work through challenges, and develop new methodologies together. Join our team and solve daily challenges as we improve the analytical capabilities of the DoD.

Join us. The world can't wait.

 * 5+ years of experience as a systems administrator
 * Ability to write and configure scripts
 * TS/SCI clearance
 * HS diploma or GED
 * Ability to obtain Security+ Certification within 30 days of start date

 * 3+ years of experience with automation IT processes
 * Bachelor's degree



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