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Senior System Administrator

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Middletown, RI Full Time
POSTED ON 12/11/2025 CLOSED ON 1/4/2026

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Job ID: 2512263

Location: MIDDLETOWN, RI, US

Date Posted: 2025-12-10

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: Sys Administrator

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Secret

Potential for Remote Work: No

Description

SAIC is seeking a Senior System Administrator in Middletown, RI.

  • Performs high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for complex Operating Systems, workstations and servers.
  • Coordinates, directs and performs complex software installations and upgrades to Operating Systems and layered software packages.
  • Schedules installations and upgrades and maintains them in accordance with established IT policies and procedures.
  • Continually monitors and tunes multiple systems to achieve optimum performance levels.
  • Ensures workstation/server data integrity by evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions of varying complexities.
  • Ensures data/media recover-ability by developing and implementing system backups and database archive operations.
  • Develops, implements and promotes standard operating procedures for system software configuration management including Operating Systems and Commercial Off-The-Shelf software.
  • Conducts hardware and software audits of workstations and servers to ensure compliance with established plans, standards, policies, and configuration guidelines.
  • Incumbent develops and implements new standards, policies and procedures.
  • Incumbent in this job works closely with software developers, cybersecurity, and configuration analysts to help determine and develop the systems that will be implemented.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

  • Bachelors and (5) five years or more experience; Masters and four (4) years or more experience.
  • Must have the ability to obtain SECRET clearance.
  • Must have strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Must have strong planning, organizational, and time management skills.
  • Must have strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with a team of peers.
  • Must have a strong understanding of Windows 10 and 11 Operating System including but not limited to: Microsoft Management Console, user group permissions, Explorer permissions, registry changes, firewall changes, OS installs, software installs, and system configuration.

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 .

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