Everforth ECS is seeking a Senior Systems Administrator (Top Secret Cleared) to work in our Washington, DC office. Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.
We are seeking a cleared System Administrator to support secure system administration, endpoint management, user support, patching, monitoring, documentation, and operational sustainment for classified and sensitive law enforcement, national security, and criminal justice missions within the National Security Business Unit. The System Administrator will serve as an operational support specialist responsible for maintaining system health, resolving incidents and service requests, supporting endpoint and application administration, improving documentation, and collaborating across infrastructure, cybersecurity, network, application, and service desk teams.
The System Administrator will support secure system administration, endpoint management, user support, patching, monitoring, documentation, and operational sustainment for classified and sensitive environments serving law enforcement, national security, and criminal justice missions. This role supports day-to-day operations across servers, workstations, virtual desktops, applications, collaboration tools, and enterprise support platforms.
The System Administrator will also support team development and account growth by mentoring junior staff, improving documentation, identifying recurring operational pain points, and recommending automation, service improvement, endpoint modernization, and customer experience enhancements.
Responsibilities- Administer, monitor, maintain, patch, and troubleshoot servers, workstations, virtual desktops, applications, and enterprise platforms.
- Support endpoint imaging, software installation, hardware setup, user support, and operational sustainment.
- Respond to incidents, service requests, escalations, and recurring technical issues.
- Maintain SOPs, operational checklists, knowledge articles, and system documentation.
- Support patch management, vulnerability remediation, backup/restore activities, and system monitoring.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, cybersecurity, network, application, and service desk teams.
- Mentor junior administrators, endpoint support staff, and service desk escalation personnel.
- Identify automation opportunities, service improvements, endpoint modernization needs, and ways to reduce ticket volume.
Salary Range: $120,000 - $135,000
General Description of Benefits
Preferred Qualifications- Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility; TS/SCI preferred.
- 5+ years of system administration, endpoint support, or enterprise IT operations experience.
- Experience with Windows Server, Linux, desktop support, patching, scripting, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of ITSM ticketing, service request management, incident response, and change management.
- Ability to maintain operational documentation and follow secure administration procedures.
- Strong customer service and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Skills Required
- Active Top Secret clearance (Top Secret cleared)
- TS/SCI preferred
- 5+ years of system administration, endpoint support, or enterprise IT operations experience
- Experience with Windows Server and Linux administration
- Desktop support, endpoint imaging, software installation, and hardware setup experience
- Patch management, vulnerability remediation, backup/restore, and system monitoring experience
- Scripting and troubleshooting skills
- Knowledge of ITSM ticketing, service request management, incident response, and change management
- Ability to maintain operational documentation and follow secure administration procedures
- Strong customer service and cross-functional collaboration skills
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
-
Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
-
Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
-
Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
ECS Insights
What We Do
ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
.png)
