Junior Systems Administrator

Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful solutions to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. Through powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable our clients to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure success.

Join Deloitte's Enterprise Security team to help administer and enhance security systems that support resilient enterprise operations. As a Consultant, Enterprise Security Systems Administrator, you will support the reliability, security, and availability of technology platforms by managing configurations, applying updates, resolving operational issues, and improving controls. You will collaborate with cybersecurity and technology stakeholders to help protect systems and information in a dynamic environment.

Recruiting for this role ends on 11/30/2026.

Work You'll Do:

As a Junior Systems Administrator Consultant on the Enterprise Security team, you will be responsible for:

• Administering and maintaining Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu Linux systems, including access, configurations, patching, and platform health.
• Provide advanced troubleshooting, escalation handling, and operational continuity across mission-critical environments.
• Help maintain high-availability systems by resolving complex issues, guiding junior personnel, and coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure efficient and reliable operations.
• Implementing container-hardening practices and remediate configuration vulnerabilities across deployed environments
• Monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving system, security, and networking incidents through established operational procedures
• Monitoring system alerts, logs, and performance
• Configuring, testing, and deploying software updates, patches, and security-control changes through documented change-management processes
• Maintaining operational documentation, runbooks, and metrics; supporting control-evidence and audit requests
• Partnering with cybersecurity and infrastructure teams to document changes, maintain runbooks, and support control-evidence requests.

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Technical acumen
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

The Team

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Enterprise Security offering embeds security in all aspects of digital transformation by securing a client's technical backbone while enabling secure digital transformation. Includes security architecture, secure development and deployment, end-to-end cyber cloud capabilities, application security, and security for emerging technologies and connected products.

The Project Delivery Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project, and they are eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project delivery-focused professionals.

Qualifications
Required :

• Associate degree in systems administration, cybersecurity, information technology, or network engineering and 4+ years of experience in one or more of those fields; or a bachelor's degree in one of those fields and 2+ years of experience in one or more of those fields; or No Degree and 6+ years of professional experience in systems administration.
• Must possess an active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance
• 2+ years of experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Ansible, networking, and container hardening
• 2+ years of experience configuring or maintaining endpoint security, vulnerability management, or identity and access management platforms
• Experience configuring or maintaining endpoint security, vulnerability management, or identity and access management platforms and using PowerShell, Python, or Bash to automate system administration tasks
• Experience executing documented change-management procedures to deploy software updates, patches, or configuration changes
• Experience Building and maintaining Ansible automation for system configuration, deployment activities, and recurring operational tasks
• Knowledge of Windows Operating Systems
• Ability to travel 10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Preferred:

• Experience administering Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud Platform environments
• Experience integrating security platforms through application programming interfaces
• Experience supporting evidence collection for information technology controls or security audits
• Bachelors degree in Systems Administration or Information Technology.

For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in Colorado, Deloitte is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to Colorado and takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $74,900 to $99,900.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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