Cloud Engineer (Hybrid - In Office 10 days/Month)
National Guardian Life Insurance Company · Madison, WI
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Jul 10, 2026
Madison, WI
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Cloud Engineer role at an insurance company, focused on designing, deploying, and maintaining cloud-hosted infrastructure primarily on AWS. Day-to-day work spans the full development lifecycle — building and migrating on-premises solutions to the cloud, writing infrastructure as code, monitoring system performance, conducting audits, and supporting other teams with troubleshooting. Suited to someone with at least two years of hands-on cloud experience and a relevant certification.
Mid level · 2+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 150,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 90,500–226,000
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The job posting states this is a hybrid role requiring 10 days/month in-office at the Madison, WI location. The caller has overridden this to remote=true with a national candidate pool; no metro has been set accordingly.
AWS is the only technology called out as a 'primary focus' in the responsibilities section, making it the clearest hard gate. All other named technologies (Azure, VMware, CloudFormation, Terraform, ForgeRock) appear only under a 'Technologies in use' stack narrative section, not under a requirements or qualifications heading — treated as preferred/context.
CloudFormation and Terraform are listed as separate stack tools but serve overlapping IaC purposes; both are surfaced individually as preferred, with each listed as an alternative to the other.
The JD requires a 'Certification in Cloud Technologies' but this is a credential, not a named technology or tool, so it is not emitted as a skill.
A 4-year degree is described as 'preferred,' not required, and no equivalent-experience language is needed — the degree requirement is set to None.
The role mixes build/deploy work (IaC, cloud-hosted solutions, SDLC participation — pointing to 15-1252) with operational duties (monitoring, audits, troubleshooting, backups — pointing to 15-1244). 15-1252 is chosen as primary given the emphasis on designing, building, and deploying cloud solutions; 15-1244 is the runner-up.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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