Cloud Engineer Senior
ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company · Fairfax, VA
$140,000–$168,331from the description
Jul 24, 2026
Fairfax, VA
Jul 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level cloud engineering role focused on designing and operating secure, scalable infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP in enterprise or federal environments. Day-to-day work spans Infrastructure as Code, cloud networking, security controls, observability, cost optimization, and disaster recovery architecture. The role suits an experienced cloud engineer with a background in regulated or government IT and a professional-level cloud certification, who is eligible for a U.S. federal security clearance.
Senior level · 10+ years · Secret clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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 (12)
Location is not specified in the posting; no CBSA or state could be determined. The role is for a federal IT environment (ASM Research), which implies US-based work, but no city or region is given.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … or equivalent relevant experience' — the 'or equivalent' clause means no formal degree is hard-gated.
The Secret clearance is a hard gate: candidates must be 'able to obtain and maintain a SECRET-level background investigation' and meet US citizenship requirements.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role writes and ships IaC code (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers) but also has a heavy infrastructure operations and cloud networking component (pointing to 15-1244). The IaC/automation authorship and architecture ownership tipped the classification to 15-1252.
AWS, Azure, and GCP are listed as interchangeable cloud platform options under Required Qualifications; at least one is required with 5+ years hands-on. They are captured as a single required skill with alternatives.
Terraform, CloudFormation, and ARM/Bicep are listed together as IaC tool options under Required Qualifications; captured as two required skills with cross-alternatives to reflect the 'or' framing.
Cloud networking constructs (VPCs, subnets, transit gateways, VPNs, DNS, load balancing) are required but are architectural concepts rather than discrete named products; VPC is captured as the representative named construct.
CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Stackdriver, and ELK appear in the responsibilities narrative (not a requirements section) as example observability tools — listed as preferred.
FedRAMP/CJIS/HIPAA/PCI compliance experience appears under Preferred Qualifications.
Master's degree and prior lead/SME experience appear under Preferred Qualifications and are not captured as skills (no concrete named technology).
The compensation range ($140,000–$168,331.05) is stated without an explicit 'per year' label but is clearly an annual figure given its magnitude; period is set to Year.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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