Everforth ECS Federal is seeking a Senior Systems Administrator to support a mission-focused federal IT program in Washington DC.
Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.
Join Everforth ECS Federal to keep secure mission systems running reliably for national security and law enforcement users. You will work with a collaborative infrastructure team supporting an expanding federal environment focused on reliability, security, service continuity, and operational excellence.
The Systems Administrator will administer, patch, configure, monitor, and troubleshoot enterprise applications and systems in secure federal environments. This role supports reliable system operations, vulnerability remediation, access management, incident response, change management, and service continuity for mission-critical federal IT systems.
The Systems Administrator will maintain systems, apply patches, manage user and system access, troubleshoot incidents, support backups, document standard operating procedures, remediate vulnerabilities, support change management activities, and contribute to operational reporting. This position will work closely with systems engineers, network engineers, cybersecurity teams, service desk personnel, application teams, and program leadership to ensure secure and reliable day-to-day operations.
This role requires a hands-on technical professional with experience administering enterprise systems, supporting secure configurations, resolving operational issues, maintaining documentation, and working in structured IT environments. The ideal candidate will bring strong troubleshooting skills, attention to detail, customer awareness, and the ability to support mission operations in a classified or sensitive federal IT environment.
Preferred Qualifications- Minimum 7 years system administration experience
- Enterprise application or infrastructure support experience
- Understanding of patching, monitoring, troubleshooting, and secure operations.
Skills Required
- Experience administering enterprise systems, supporting secure configurations, resolving operational issues, maintaining documentation, and working in structured IT environments.
- Minimum 7 years system administration experience.
- Enterprise application or infrastructure support experience.
- Understanding of patching, monitoring, troubleshooting, and secure operations.
- Experience with vulnerability remediation, access management, incident response, change management, and backups.
- Ability to support mission operations in a classified or sensitive federal IT environment.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
