System Administrator Jobs in Virginia
System Administrator jobs in Virginia concentrate in federal contracting, defense, cybersecurity, and higher education, with demand at every level from help-desk-adjacent junior roles to senior infrastructure engineers managing enterprise environments. The largest hiring activity is in the Northern Virginia, Richmond, and Hampton Roads metros, where established employers like Leidos, Booz Allen Hamilton, and ManTech have deep, ongoing system administrator headcount needs. The most sought-after specialties in Virginia are Active Directory and identity management, cloud infrastructure on Azure and AWS, and network security administration. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Drive enterprise-wide transformation, strengthen financial stewardship, and help shape the future of operational excellence at UVA Health.
UVA Health is seeking an accomplished Administrator, System Stewardship & Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing to lead high-impact initiatives that optimize organizational resources, improve financial performance, and advance strategic sourcing across our academic health system.
This highly visible leadership position offers a unique opportunity to partner with senior executives, influence system-wide strategy, and translate complex improvement opportunities into measurable financial and operational results. The successful candidate will bring a strong combination of strategic sourcing expertise, financial acumen, executive collaboration, and disciplined program execution.
The Role
As Administrator, System Stewardship & Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing, you will provide strategic leadership for enterprise-wide stewardship initiatives, supply chain optimization, and complex transformation projects.
Working in a dual-reporting structure with Supply Chain and system executive leadership, you will collaborate across Finance, Clinical Operations, Revenue Cycle, Facilities, Information Technology, Human Resources, and other departments to identify opportunities, establish accountability, and deliver sustainable improvements.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead enterprise-wide stewardship and expense optimization initiatives, identifying opportunities to improve financial margins, reduce unnecessary expenditures, and strengthen resource utilization.
- Develop and execute strategic sourcing initiatives across clinical, non-clinical, purchased services, capital, and other major spending categories.
- Establish governance structures, project management methodologies, and accountability frameworks to support system-wide improvement initiatives.
- Manage a portfolio of high-impact transformation projects, overseeing initiatives from opportunity identification through implementation, performance measurement, and benefits realization.
- Partner with executive leaders, physicians, and operational stakeholders to align financial improvement strategies with patient care, quality, and organizational priorities.
- Lead complex sourcing activities, including RFPs, RFQs, supplier evaluations, contract negotiations, and strategic supplier selection.
- Identify opportunities for cost savings and cost avoidance through contract optimization, standardization, utilization management, supplier consolidation, and improved purchasing strategies.
- Establish annual savings targets and monitor projected and realized financial benefits in collaboration with Finance and operational leadership.
- Develop executive dashboards, scorecards, and performance indicators to track stewardship initiatives, contract compliance, supply expenses, supplier performance, and realized savings.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams through complex organizational change, establishing project milestones, identifying risks, resolving barriers, and maintaining accountability for results.
- Strengthen supplier relationships through executive business reviews, performance management, contract compliance, and risk mitigation strategies.
- Evaluate group purchasing organization (GPO) opportunities, total cost of ownership, and value-based sourcing strategies.
- Facilitate executive governance meetings, develop strategic recommendations, and communicate progress and outcomes to senior leadership.
- Champion a culture of financial accountability and continuous improvement, ensuring stewardship initiatives deliver sustainable value without compromising clinical quality or service excellence.
The ideal candidate is a strategic, analytically driven leader with demonstrated success managing complex sourcing, financial improvement, or enterprise transformation initiatives.
This individual will bring strong executive communication skills, advanced project and program management capabilities, and the ability to influence stakeholders across diverse clinical and operational environments.
Success requires someone who can see the big picture while maintaining accountability for execution, translate financial and operational data into actionable strategies, and build partnerships that produce measurable, sustainable results.
Why UVA Health
At UVA Health, responsible stewardship is essential to advancing our mission of exceptional patient care, education, research, and innovation.
As an academic health system, UVA Health brings together clinical expertise, operational leadership, and organizational resources to support high-quality care while maintaining long-term financial sustainability.
This position offers a distinctive opportunity to influence how UVA Health manages resources, executes strategic priorities, and delivers value across the enterprise.
What makes this opportunity compelling:
- Enterprise-Wide Strategic Influence: Collaborate directly with senior executive leadership to advance financial stewardship, supply chain strategy, and organizational performance.
- High-Visibility Leadership: Guide initiatives with significant financial and operational implications, presenting recommendations and results to executive teams and governance committees.
- Opportunity to Build and Transform: Establish disciplined governance, project management, and performance measurement frameworks that strengthen organizational accountability.
- Meaningful Financial Impact: Lead initiatives that improve financial margins, optimize spending, and ensure resources are used effectively to support patient care.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with leaders across Finance, Supply Chain, Clinical Operations, Revenue Cycle, Facilities, Information Technology, and Human Resources.
- Innovation and Strategic Sourcing: Advance contemporary sourcing practices, supplier partnerships, analytics, and value-based purchasing strategies.
- Lasting Organizational Impact: Help create sustainable improvements that strengthen operational performance and support UVA Health's long-term strategic priorities.
This is more than a traditional supply chain or financial improvement leadership position. It is an opportunity to connect enterprise strategy with operational execution, lead meaningful organizational transformation, and help ensure UVA Health continues to deliver exceptional care through responsible resource stewardship.
Relocation assistance may be available for qualified candidates.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Education: Bachelor's degree required. Master's degree preferred.
Experience: 10 years of relevant professional experience, to include 7 years of formal managerial experience required.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
This is primarily a sedentary job involving extensive use of desktop computers. The job does occasionally require traveling some distance to attend meetings, and programs.
The pay range for this role is $200,000.00 - $260,881.00 annually. Individual compensation will be determined by the selected candidate's qualifications, previous work experience, and/or education.Benefits
- Comprehensive Benefits Package: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Retirement Savings
- Long-term and Short-term Disability
- Health Saving Plans, and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Certification and Education Support
UVA Health is a world-class Magnet Recognized academic medical center and health system with a level 1 trauma center. 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report “Best Hospitals” guide rates UVA Health University Medical Center as “High Performing” in 5 adult specialties and 14 conditions/procedures. We are one of 70 National Cancer Institute designated cancer centers. UVA Health Children’s is named by 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report as the best children's hospital in Virginia with 9 specialties ranked among the best in the nation. Our footprint also encompasses 3 community hospitals and an integrated network of primary and specialty care clinics throughout Charlottesville, Culpeper, Northern Virginia, and beyond.
The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity employer. All interested persons are encouraged to apply, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Learn more about UVA’s commitment to non-discrimination and equal opportunity employment.
Drive enterprise-wide transformation, strengthen financial stewardship, and help shape the future of operational excellence at UVA Health.
UVA Health is seeking an accomplished Administrator, System Stewardship & Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing to lead high-impact initiatives that optimize organizational resources, improve financial performance, and advance strategic sourcing across our academic health system.
This highly visible leadership position offers a unique opportunity to partner with senior executives, influence system-wide strategy, and translate complex improvement opportunities into measurable financial and operational results. The successful candidate will bring a strong combination of strategic sourcing expertise, financial acumen, executive collaboration, and disciplined program execution.
The Role
As Administrator, System Stewardship & Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing, you will provide strategic leadership for enterprise-wide stewardship initiatives, supply chain optimization, and complex transformation projects.
Working in a dual-reporting structure with Supply Chain and system executive leadership, you will collaborate across Finance, Clinical Operations, Revenue Cycle, Facilities, Information Technology, Human Resources, and other departments to identify opportunities, establish accountability, and deliver sustainable improvements.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead enterprise-wide stewardship and expense optimization initiatives, identifying opportunities to improve financial margins, reduce unnecessary expenditures, and strengthen resource utilization.
- Develop and execute strategic sourcing initiatives across clinical, non-clinical, purchased services, capital, and other major spending categories.
- Establish governance structures, project management methodologies, and accountability frameworks to support system-wide improvement initiatives.
- Manage a portfolio of high-impact transformation projects, overseeing initiatives from opportunity identification through implementation, performance measurement, and benefits realization.
- Partner with executive leaders, physicians, and operational stakeholders to align financial improvement strategies with patient care, quality, and organizational priorities.
- Lead complex sourcing activities, including RFPs, RFQs, supplier evaluations, contract negotiations, and strategic supplier selection.
- Identify opportunities for cost savings and cost avoidance through contract optimization, standardization, utilization management, supplier consolidation, and improved purchasing strategies.
- Establish annual savings targets and monitor projected and realized financial benefits in collaboration with Finance and operational leadership.
- Develop executive dashboards, scorecards, and performance indicators to track stewardship initiatives, contract compliance, supply expenses, supplier performance, and realized savings.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams through complex organizational change, establishing project milestones, identifying risks, resolving barriers, and maintaining accountability for results.
- Strengthen supplier relationships through executive business reviews, performance management, contract compliance, and risk mitigation strategies.
- Evaluate group purchasing organization (GPO) opportunities, total cost of ownership, and value-based sourcing strategies.
- Facilitate executive governance meetings, develop strategic recommendations, and communicate progress and outcomes to senior leadership.
- Champion a culture of financial accountability and continuous improvement, ensuring stewardship initiatives deliver sustainable value without compromising clinical quality or service excellence.
The ideal candidate is a strategic, analytically driven leader with demonstrated success managing complex sourcing, financial improvement, or enterprise transformation initiatives.
This individual will bring strong executive communication skills, advanced project and program management capabilities, and the ability to influence stakeholders across diverse clinical and operational environments.
Success requires someone who can see the big picture while maintaining accountability for execution, translate financial and operational data into actionable strategies, and build partnerships that produce measurable, sustainable results.
Why UVA Health
At UVA Health, responsible stewardship is essential to advancing our mission of exceptional patient care, education, research, and innovation.
As an academic health system, UVA Health brings together clinical expertise, operational leadership, and organizational resources to support high-quality care while maintaining long-term financial sustainability.
This position offers a distinctive opportunity to influence how UVA Health manages resources, executes strategic priorities, and delivers value across the enterprise.
What makes this opportunity compelling:
- Enterprise-Wide Strategic Influence: Collaborate directly with senior executive leadership to advance financial stewardship, supply chain strategy, and organizational performance.
- High-Visibility Leadership: Guide initiatives with significant financial and operational implications, presenting recommendations and results to executive teams and governance committees.
- Opportunity to Build and Transform: Establish disciplined governance, project management, and performance measurement frameworks that strengthen organizational accountability.
- Meaningful Financial Impact: Lead initiatives that improve financial margins, optimize spending, and ensure resources are used effectively to support patient care.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with leaders across Finance, Supply Chain, Clinical Operations, Revenue Cycle, Facilities, Information Technology, and Human Resources.
- Innovation and Strategic Sourcing: Advance contemporary sourcing practices, supplier partnerships, analytics, and value-based purchasing strategies.
- Lasting Organizational Impact: Help create sustainable improvements that strengthen operational performance and support UVA Health's long-term strategic priorities.
This is more than a traditional supply chain or financial improvement leadership position. It is an opportunity to connect enterprise strategy with operational execution, lead meaningful organizational transformation, and help ensure UVA Health continues to deliver exceptional care through responsible resource stewardship.
Relocation assistance may be available for qualified candidates.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Education: Bachelor's degree required. Master's degree preferred.
Experience: 10 years of relevant professional experience, to include 7 years of formal managerial experience required.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
This is primarily a sedentary job involving extensive use of desktop computers. The job does occasionally require traveling some distance to attend meetings, and programs.
The pay range for this role is $200,000.00 - $260,881.00 annually. Individual compensation will be determined by the selected candidate's qualifications, previous work experience, and/or education.Benefits
- Comprehensive Benefits Package: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Retirement Savings
- Long-term and Short-term Disability
- Health Saving Plans, and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Certification and Education Support
UVA Health is a world-class Magnet Recognized academic medical center and health system with a level 1 trauma center. 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report “Best Hospitals” guide rates UVA Health University Medical Center as “High Performing” in 5 adult specialties and 14 conditions/procedures. We are one of 70 National Cancer Institute designated cancer centers. UVA Health Children’s is named by 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report as the best children's hospital in Virginia with 9 specialties ranked among the best in the nation. Our footprint also encompasses 3 community hospitals and an integrated network of primary and specialty care clinics throughout Charlottesville, Culpeper, Northern Virginia, and beyond.
The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity employer. All interested persons are encouraged to apply, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Learn more about UVA’s commitment to non-discrimination and equal opportunity employment.
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Where Virginia roles are concentrated, by current openings.
System Administrator Job Market in Virginia
A snapshot from current Virginia openings, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
- Leidos10
- SAIC5
- Avit Systems5A
- Saalex4
- Amentum3
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
What Virginia Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in system administrator jobs across Virginia.
- Active DoD security clearance or eligibility is strongly preferred by Virginia federal contractors
- CompTIA Security+, Network+, or Microsoft certifications required or preferred in most listings
- Experience administering Active Directory, Group Policy, and Windows Server environments
- Hands-on experience with virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere or Hyper-V
- Familiarity with cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or a closely related field
System Administrator Jobs in Virginia: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a system administrator in Virginia?
Virginia does not require a state-issued license to work as a system administrator, so the path runs through education and industry credentials. Most Virginia employers expect at least an associate or bachelor's degree in information technology or computer science, combined with certifications such as CompTIA A+, Network+, or a Microsoft administrator credential. Gaining experience through an entry-level IT support role at a Virginia government agency, university, or federal contractor is the most common route into full system administrator positions.
How much do system administrators make in Virginia?
System administrators in Virginia earn a median of about $109,610 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $69,580 for the lowest 10% to over $170,110 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire system administrators in Virginia?
Virginia system administrator roles are posted by Leidos, SAIC, and Avit Systems and others right now, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Northern Virginia's dense concentration of federal agencies and defense contractors means large integrators and government IT firms consistently represent a significant share of Virginia's system administrator openings year-round.
Which Virginia cities have the most system administrator jobs?
Fort Belvoir, Chantilly, and Alexandria have the most system administrator openings in Virginia. Northern Virginia dominates because of its unmatched density of federal agencies, defense contractors, and data center operators, while Richmond's state government offices and regional headquarters drive steady demand, and Hampton Roads benefits from the large military and naval installation presence that sustains ongoing IT infrastructure needs.
Are there remote system administrator jobs in Virginia?
Yes, but they are limited because system administrator work frequently involves hands-on hardware, on-site server rooms, and in-person response to infrastructure issues. About 22% of system administrator openings tied to Virginia are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting that a share of the role's responsibilities can be handled off-site. Cloud administration, monitoring, and helpdesk-adjacent tasks are the functions most likely to appear in remote or hybrid arrangements.
How can I get hired as a system administrator in Virginia with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is an IT support or systems technician role at a Virginia state agency, university IT department, or federal contractor, where hands-on exposure to enterprise infrastructure is built on the job. Large Virginia employers such as Leidos and Booz Allen Hamilton recruit entry-level IT technicians and junior systems specialists who can grow into administrator roles. Earning a CompTIA A+ or Security+ certification before applying gives candidates a concrete edge, and lateral moves from network technician, desktop support specialist, or IT helpdesk analyst positions are a well-established route into system administrator titles across Virginia.
Where can I find and apply to system administrator jobs in Virginia?
You can find and apply to system administrator jobs in Virginia on Migrate Mate, which lists current Virginia openings. Search the listings, find the roles that fit your experience and location, and apply directly to the ones that match.
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