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Posted: January 21, 2026 (2 days ago)

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IT Specialist (SYSADMIN)

Defense Logistics Agency

Department of Defense

Fresh

Location

Salary

$89,508 - $133,142

per year

Closes

January 31, 2026

GS-12 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $74,441 - $96,770

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-11. Advanced degree + significant experience.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves managing and maintaining large-scale IT systems for the Defense Logistics Agency, focusing on enterprise applications that support logistics operations.

You'll handle installations, security updates, troubleshooting, and coordination with teams to keep everything running smoothly across development and production environments.

It's a great fit for experienced IT professionals with a background in system administration and enterprise software, especially those comfortable working in a government or defense setting.

Key Requirements

  • One year of specialized experience at GS-11 level or equivalent in IT system administration, including designing methodologies to fix operational issues and manage changes to ERP applications
  • Knowledge of IT security principles to mitigate vulnerabilities and ensure compliance in ERP Non-SAP core suite applications
  • Experience administering enterprise-level applications in development, test, stage, and production environments
  • Skills in installing, configuring, and applying security patches to ERP applications and components
  • Ability to coordinate with technical teams for environment refreshes, urgent fixes, and code migrations
  • Proficiency in providing technical support, including implementation planning, configuration, integration testing, and vendor diagnostics
  • Familiarity with inter-system communication components across varied operating systems, languages, utilities, and protocols

Full Job Description

See below for important information regarding this job. Position will be filled at any of the locations listed below.

Site specific salary information as follows: Battle Creek, MI: $89,508 - $ 116,362 Columbus, OH: $93,400 - $121,422 Dayton, OH: $92,841- $120,696 Fort Belvoir, VA: $102,415- $133,142 New Cumberland, PA: $102,415- $133,142 Ogden, UT: $89,508 - $ 116,362 Philadelphia, PA: $98,630- $128,221 Richmond, VA: $93,499- $121,551 To qualify for an IT Specialist (SYSADMIN), your qualifications must include: A.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) or competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position, and is directly in or related to this position.

To qualify at the GS-12 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military or private sector.

Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including time-in-grade (General Schedule (GS) positions only), time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement.

Creditable specialized experience includes: - Designs and implements methodologies to correct operational and performance problems and manages major changes to the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Non-SAP core suite applications and associated components that result from implementing changes, upgrades, and security fixes.

- Knowledge of and skill in applying IT security principles, methods, and requirements sufficient to mitigate Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Non-SAP core suite application security vulnerabilities to remain compliant with security requirements.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Major Duties:

  • Responsible for administering enterprise level applications/tools in the Development, System Test, Stage and Production environments.
  • Provides subject matter expertise for the inter-system communication application components; ensures highly varied components with different operating systems, languages, utilities, and protocols operate as an integrated technical infrastructure.
  • Install and configure Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Non-SAP core suite applications, associated components, install security patches as required by the DLA Computer Emergency Response Team in the Development, System Test, and Stage environments.
  • Coordinate with various technical teams to support environment refreshes, urgent fixes such as “hot packages” and security patches that simultaneously affect the operating system, database and applications.
  • Coordinate regular code migration to include performing version maintenance for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Non-SAP core suite applications and components.
  • Provide technical support of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Non-SAP core suite applications and associated components including implementation planning, configuration, and integration testing.
  • Support product feature/limitation education and diagnostics through the appropriate vendor.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 1/21/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 1/22/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: DLAJ6-26-12869119-MP