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Systems Administration, Lead Associate with Security Clearance

PeratonLandover, MD🇺🇸United StatesPosted Sep 15, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

Advance your career in national security with Peraton, a leader in mission-critical IT solutions, where you'll manage vital systems and contribute to protecting our nation. This hybrid role offers a competitive salary range and the opportunity to develop advanced technical skills while working on impactful projects, making it ideal for a security-cleared systems administrator eager for growth. You are encouraged to apply and become part of a team solving complex challenges for essential government agencies.

Quick Overview

Salary
$86k - $138k/yr
Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Employee
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Landover, MD, United States
Posted
2 days ago
OracleVMware

Job Description

About Peraton Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace.

The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure. About The Role The System Administrators will maintains smooth operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination with network administrators. Interacts with users and evaluates vendor products.

Make recommendations to purchase hardware and software, coordinates installation and provides backup recovery. Develops and monitors policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources. Ancillary duties may include setting up administrator and service accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software and allocating mass storage space. Additional Responsibilities include:

  • Installing, configuring and maintaining Oracle Sun Server X4 Series, x86 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) including virtualized servers.
  • Perform regular day-to-day Systems Administration activities such as User Administrations, Disk Management, Package Install, Patch Management, Storage Management, NFS Administration and disaster recovery/fail-over.
  • Identify, analyze, fix, and determine root cause, follow-up and coordinate changes to resolve complex problems involving hardware, software, networking and applications
  • Ensure backups are completed successfully.
  • Perform backup restores.
  • Monitor and ensure adequate security for hosts and provide access control for file systems.
  • VMWare: Assist in maintenance of virtualized server environment.
  • Create and configure hosts and VMs and allocate corresponding system resources as required.
  • Maintain and patch existing hosts and VMs using VMWare COTS product.
  • Application Administration: Support a variety of server and desktop COTS, agents, and GOTS applications.• Other duties: Maintain operational procedures and guides and create tickets to document all break/fix incidents Qualifications 5 years with BS/BA; 3 years with MS/MA; 0 years with PhD
  • DOD 8570 Compliant IAT Level II Certification.
  • Active TS/SCI clearance is required for this position.

Details Target Salary Range: $86,000 - $138,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

Application Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate's own.

EEO:Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.

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