Accenture
Systems Administrator - Senior
$94K–$188K
Chantilly, VA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Location
- Chantilly, VA
Chantilly, Virginia, United States - Visa sponsorship
- Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.
About the job
Provisions, automates, secures, and optimizes highly available enterprise systems across cloud, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises environments, while mentoring systems administration teams.
What you'll do
- Provision, configure, monitor, and maintain systems; troubleshoot issues to ensure continuous availability.
- Automate system administration using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management, and improve reliability, performance, and security.
- Mentor systems administration teams, standardize configurations and procedures, and lead system optimization initiatives.
What they ask for
- US Citizen with Active TS/SCI CI Poly.
- Experience managing Windows and/or Linux server environments.
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
- Experience with cloud or hybrid-cloud platforms; knowledge of monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, performance optimization, patch management, automation, and enterprise security controls.
Nice to have
- Experience with containerized environments and orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Infrastructure certifications; DevSecOps or CI/CD knowledge; experience in regulated environments, compliance, vulnerability management, security auditing, or mentoring.
Pay
$94,000 — $187,600 USD base salary
Tools
Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes
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