Senior Systems Sustainment Administrator

Job ID: 2616031

Location: Suffolk, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-08-24

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: IT Systems Engineer

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 25% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE

Description

SAIC is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to serve as a Senior Systems Administrator with experience in US Navy IT networks to support the sustained operation and maintenance of a newly deployed US Navy enterprise transport network, ensuring 24/7/365 availability and reliability. The position will support end-to-end network, system, and element visibility; facilitate rapid operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning to maintaining the operational integrity of a mission-critical network, requiring both technical expertise and a commitment to excellence in service delivery. This position will work a schedule of 7AM - 3PM, 5 days per week to include weekends and a rotating on call requirement.

Work will be performed at the Navy customer's site in Suffolk, VA.

Specific duties include:

• Provide Tier 2 level engineering operations support to quickly identify, triage, and address outages, analyzing symptoms and potential root causes to implement effective resolutions or escalate to Tier 3/Tier 4 support as required.
• Utilize advanced monitoring tools and processes to oversee network infrastructure, monitor the performance and availability of managed services and systems across multiple exchange points, and ensure optimal performance.
• Perform day to day maintenance, fixes, configuration corrections, software and hardware updates, and deployments.
• Adhere to system and operational reporting obligations.
• Operate and maintain the privileged access solutions.
• Maintain continuous verification of failover processes and disaster recovery procedures.
• Operate and maintain hardware upgrade process and procedures.
• Update and maintain any software builds applicable to deployed equipment.
• Operate and maintain asset management processes and procedures.
• Operate and maintain configuration management.
• Enact change management for the solution.
• Operate and maintain existing incident management processes.
• Keep firmware, software updates and patches up to date for equipment.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science or related discipline and five (5) years of relevant experience in enterprise architecture and supporting a large network infrastructure. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.

Required Security Clearance:

• Secret Clearance required.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Experience with the following: Linux and Windows Server deployment and administration; Active Directory and Group Policy; DNS; Python, BASH, Powershell, or similar; Ansible (Tower), Puppet, Chef, Terraform, Containerization, Jenkins, or similar; and deploying VMs within VMWare vSphere.
• Experience with the following a plus: Nautobot, RHEL Satellite, InfoBlox DDI, RedHat Linux 8.
• Strong working knowledge with Routers, Switches, Firewalls, and Virtual Private Network devices.
• Good understanding of TCP/IP in regards to routing and subnetting.
• Windows Server / Active Directory.

Required Certifications:

• IAT Level II required (Sec + and OS Certification).

Working Environment and Travel:

• Travel up to 25% may be required.
• Able to work shifts to cover a 24x7 operational environment.
• Able to cover on-call schedule on a rotating basis.

Desired:

• Certifications are considered a plus: CompTia Linux+, RedHat Linux, Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate.

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.


SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .