# Linux System Administrator

Company Overview By Light Professional IT Services LLC readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide. Position Overview By Light has an opening for a Sr. Systems Administrator (Linux/Unix) position supporting the Army National Guard (ARNG) in Falls Church, VA. This is an IT Service Management contract in support of the operation, modernization, expansion, and further evolution of the ARNG’s global Information Technology (IT) services including networking, compute, storage, infrastructure, applications, hosting, and program management services. The GECOS program supports the ARNG enterprise IT infrastructure, its Wide Area Network (WAN), authentication and directory services, cybersecurity, application hosting, and associated services. GECOS uses ITIL best practices framework as the basis for IT Service Management (ITSM) model. Three (3) days onsite with up to two (2) days telework. Onboarding/transition in periodrequires on-site support up to 60 days. GECOS work sched

- **Id**: 1503131
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/by-light-linux-system-administrator>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Falls Church, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-30T04:41:54Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-30
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T16:26:59Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6595
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cybersecurity, Military, Science & Engineering

## Company

- **Id**: 1964053
- **Name**: By Light
- **Domain**: bylight.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/bylight>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: iCIMS

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 7
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 103000
- **Max usd**: 195000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1808

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **Chef** — Optional: no
- **Configuration Management** — Optional: no
- **ITIL** — Optional: no
- **ITSM** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Perl** — Optional: no
- **PowerShell** — Optional: no
- **Puppet** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Ruby** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **Unix** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: high_school
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-30T04:41:54Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 16
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.461
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 7
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

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