Part-Time Cloud Systems Engineer – AWS / Federal Environment at Bridgecross, LLC
Silver Spring, MD
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Aug 16, 2026
Silver Spring, MD
Aug 18, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A part-time Cloud Systems Engineer role supporting a federal NOAA customer, focused on operating, securing, and maintaining AWS cloud infrastructure that underpins mission-critical scientific applications. Day-to-day work spans AWS service administration (EC2, S3, RDS, EFS, CloudWatch), Linux maintenance, container environments, CI/CD pipelines, IAM/federation, and cost/performance optimization — with some legacy application modernization and migration work.
Senior level · 5+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Part-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 40 people in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (network and computer systems administrators). range 25–60
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $128,188 (middle half $100,819–$156,589).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 18, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is classified as 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators) because the primary work is operating and administering existing AWS infrastructure — monitoring, patching, account management, backup verification, and Tier III support — rather than building new software. However, the CI/CD, DevOps, and containerization responsibilities push meaningfully toward 15-1252 (Software Developers), hence the medium confidence and alt code.
Remote work is listed as conditional ('may be performed remotely or at the NOAA facility in Silver Spring, MD, depending on customer requirements'), so remote is marked false as it cannot be guaranteed.
The posting notes candidates 'may be required to complete Government personnel security screening,' but no specific clearance level is stated as a hard gate, so the clearance requirement is set to None.
IAM, SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, and Okta all appear together in the responsibilities section and are echoed in the Minimum Qualifications as 'Understanding of IAM and cloud federation technologies.' They are marked required as a group reflecting that gate.
Docker and Kubernetes appear in the Minimum Qualifications with 'and/or' phrasing, indicating either satisfies the requirement; both are retained as separate skills given they are distinct technologies also listed independently in responsibilities.
No compensation is stated in the posting.
Posting is for a part-time engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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