Secret Azure Cloud Engineer
Insight Global · Hanahan, SC
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Jul 9, 2026
Hanahan, SC
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A cloud engineering role supporting a federal software systems program, focused on designing and maintaining Azure-based infrastructure. Day-to-day work centers on building CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code templates, and automation for operations tasks such as monitoring, scaling, and disaster recovery. Suited to experienced cloud engineers holding an active Secret clearance and relevant DoD information assurance certification.
Senior level · 5+ years · Charleston-North Charleston, SC · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance
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How this req sits in the market our data
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 $135,056 (middle half $104,120–$167,300).
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 (8)
The role is on-site in North Charleston, SC with up to 2 days/week telework — it is NOT fully remote.
A Secret clearance at the T5 (Tier 5 / Top Secret-level investigation) is explicitly required; the posting says 'Secret Security Clearance at the T5 investigation level', which is a T5 background investigation typically associated with Top Secret eligibility, but the stated clearance level is Secret — flagged as Secret accordingly.
The 3-year cloud experience requirement is stated as 'Azure, AWS, or GCP' — Azure is named first and is the primary platform per the title; AWS and GCP are listed as alternatives.
The 'Demonstrated experience with' block is a single required section listing many tools; all named technologies within it are treated as hard gates. Chef and Puppet appear alongside Ansible (already required above) as configuration management alternatives — emitted as preferred since Ansible is the primary named requirement and Chef/Puppet are listed as parenthetical alternatives within that sub-bullet.
IAT Level II certification (e.g., CompTIA Security+, CCNA Security, CySA+) is required but is a certification/compliance credential rather than a named technology tool — not emitted as a skill per extraction rules.
HTML is listed as a scripting/programming language example alongside Bash and Python; it is a weak signal and emitted as preferred given its parenthetical 'etc.' framing.
No compensation was stated in the posting.
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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