Principal Cloud DevSecOps Engineer at SAIC
Colorado Springs, CO
$160,001–$200,000from the description
Aug 12, 2026
Colorado Springs, CO
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Colorado Springs-based role at SAIC supporting secure cloud deployments into DoD Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) AWS environments. The engineer will build and maintain DevSecOps pipelines, Kubernetes-based workloads, and infrastructure-as-code solutions while enforcing DoD cybersecurity compliance (RMF, STIGs). The position suits an experienced cloud/DevSecOps engineer comfortable operating in classified, mission-critical government environments.
Senior level · 5+ years · Colorado Springs, CO · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
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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 $137,233 (middle half $108,638–$170,529). 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 Aug 13, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The title says 'Principal' but the actual requirements — 5+ years in cloud engineering, standard DoD compliance work, and team-level collaboration — support a Senior-level band. 'Principal' here appears to be a job-family label rather than an org-wide technical authority designation.
The degree requirement states a Bachelor's with 9+ years, Master's with 7+, or PhD with 4+, but explicitly allows equivalent years of experience in lieu of a degree, so no minimum degree is hard-gated.
The role's primary day-to-day work spans both building IaC/pipeline code (15-1252) and operating/monitoring cloud infrastructure (15-1244); it was classified as Software Developers because the JD emphasizes writing pipelines, IaC, and automation code over pure operations.
Jenkins is listed as the primary CI/CD tool with GitLab CI and AWS CodePipeline as named alternatives in the same requirement; all three are captured accordingly.
Checkmarx, SonarQube, and Aqua Security are listed together as examples of DevSecOps tooling in the required section; Checkmarx is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
Azure, Ansible, Grafana, Loki, and Fluentd appear in the responsibilities narrative rather than a formal requirements block and are treated as preferred context.
Python, Bash, Prometheus, and Elastic Stack appear under Desired Qualifications and are marked preferred.
Requires a TS/SCI 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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