System Administrator - Junior at Leidos in Bethesda, MD

System Administrator - Junior Location: Reston, VA Looking for an opportunity to make an impact? At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainable. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business. If this sounds like the kind of environment where you can thrive, keep reading! The Intel Security Sector delivers technology-enabled services and mission software capabilities for defense and intel customers in the areas of cyber, logistics, security operations, and decision analytics. Your greatest work is ahead! This position will be located at one of our customer sites in Bethesda, MD; Reston, VA; or Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, DC. The Intel Security Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Systems Administrator.  Your job will be to bring together systems administration, systems maintenance, and systems performance optimization. As an integral member of the team, you will work closely with other infrastructure, network engineers, and system engineers on the following key tasks: Perform builds, installs, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting in virtual and physical environments to include base configuration, security and system patching. Provide O/S hardening and system patching Develop scripts to support patching, configuration, and other infrastructure team tasks Set up administrator and service accounts, maintain system documentation, tune system performance, install system wide software, validate and implement system patches, including critical security patches. This position offers the opportunity to work on a high-visibility enterprise program at the intersection of data, analytics, and emerging AI technologies. Ideal candidates are motivated by mission impact, comfortable operating in complex stakeholder environments, and interested in building deep domain expertise while delivering capabilities with real-world national security outcomes. The successful candidate will work on projects to design, develop, and deploy software applications to support DIA/NDOC OSINT production on behalf of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise (DIE). Are you ready for your next career challenge? Join a team committed to a Mission! Responsibilities Include: Monitoring system health, network configuration and performing preventive maintenance. Working with more senior technicians in identifying, troubleshooting, and correcting hardware and software issues including network connectivity. Providing technical assistance to companion work groups in support of overlapping projects and maintaining good inter-departmental relations. Communicating with users and publishing status of any system outages, as needed. Proactively contacting customers when infrastructure processes are significantly delayed or may impact their ability to complete a business function on time. Participating in the creation and ongoing maintenance of documentation to ensure clear, concise, and accurate information is readily available to assist with incident resolution. Undertaking project work and providing support for implementing IT enhancements. Clearance Required: Active TS clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with Polygraph. Current or recent SCI-level access is a significant advantage and preferred. Successful polygraph within the last 5 years is a significant advantage and preferred. Required Experience, Skills, and Education: Bachelors degree and less than 2 years of Systems Administration experience, including internships. Additional years of experience in lieu of degree are acceptable. Active TS clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with Polygraph. Working in an Agile project management environment. Experience documenting test results for corrective actions, reporting and audits. Experience with Windows Server (2016, 2019, 2022) and Windows Desktop (10/11). Experience with Windows Patching and Package management. Experience with Windows Server builds: virtual and physical. Experience with Group Policy Objects, Active Directory, Windows PKI infrastructure, Storage, Remote Access Server, DNS, DHCP and User Profile Management. Strong verbal and written communication skills. Enthusiastic with the ability to work well on a team and a self-starter who can work on their own. Preferred Experience, Skills, and Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical discipline.  An additional 4 years of experience, for a total of 7 years of experience may be substituted for a Bachelor’s degree. Three years of experience in the field with at least a portion of the experience within the last two years. A significant share of your data analytics experience in direct support of military or intelligence community customers, demonstrating progressive technical development and mission-focused outcomes. Significant experience dealing with at least two of the following data classes: open source, publicly available information (PAI); forensic media (i.e., DOMEX); measurement and signatures intelligence (MASINT); or cybersecurity and cyber forensics. Experience or familiarity with security standards, software architectures, and/or Network security technologies (Multiple Domain, PKI, SSP, Vulnerability Assessment, etc.). Experience supporting a software configuration management and development environment. Experience with data engineering tools such as Kubernetes/Rancher, Cloudera. Experience with Configuration Management Chef and IaC tools such as Salt or Ansible. Experience with scripting languages, CI/CD tools, Elasticsearch, or Gitlab. Experience working in an air-gapped environments. At Leidos, the opportunities are boundless. We challenge our staff with interesting assignments that provide them with an opportunity to thrive professionally and personally. For us, helping you grow your career is good business. We’re excited to learn more about you. #EWOKS If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares. Original Posting: April 30, 2026 For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above. Pay Range: Pay Range $50,700.00 - $91,650.00 The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.