**Description** **SAIC** is seeking a **Senior System Administrator** in **Middletown, RI** . + Performs high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for complex Operating Systems, workstations and servers. + Coordinates, directs and performs complex software installations and upgrades to Operating Systems and layered software packages. + Schedules installations and upgrades and maintains them in accordance with established IT policies and procedures. + Continually monitors and tunes multiple systems to achieve optimum performance levels. + Ensures workstation/server data integrity by evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions of varying complexities. + Ensures data/media recover-ability by developing and implementing system backups and database archive operations. + Develops, implements and promotes standard operating procedures for system software configuration management including Operating Systems and Commercial Off-The-Shelf software. + Conducts hardware and software audits of workstations and servers to ensure compliance with established plans, standards, policies, and configuration guidelines. + Incumbent develops and implements new standards, policies and procedures. + Incumbent in this job works closely with software developers, cybersecurity, and configuration analysts to help determine and develop the systems that will be implemented. **Qualifications** **Qualifications:** + Bachelors and six (6) years or more experience; Masters and four (4) years or more experience. + Must have strong verbal and written communication skills. + Must have strong planning, organizational, and time management skills. + Must have strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills. + Ability to work collaboratively with a team of peers. + Must have a strong understanding of Windows 10 and 11 Operating System including but not limited to: Microsoft Management Console, user group permissions, Explorer permissions, registry changes, firewall changes, OS installs, software installs, and system configuration. REQNUMBER: 2507687 SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability