Cloud Engineer at TEKsystems
Charlotte, NC
$25–$45/hrfrom the description
Jul 23, 2026
Charlotte, NC
Jul 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A cloud engineering contract role focused on building a self-service infrastructure portal using Morpheus, primarily to support internal development teams working on AI features. Day-to-day work involves creating "as code" templates for provisioning, configuration, security, networking, and gold image automation across AWS and Azure environments. Suits engineers with hands-on multi-cloud infrastructure automation experience, including scripting and tools like Terraform and Ansible.
Mid level · 3+ years · Remote · Contract
“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
Roughly 16,600 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 8,700–21,600
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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 (9)
The posting states '3+ years' of related professional experience overall, but separately requires '5+ years' of public cloud (AWS/Azure) experience — the cloud-specific requirement is the binding gate and is reflected on those skills.
AWS and Azure are both listed as required cloud platforms; they appear together under the same requirement and are treated as interchangeable alternatives for the cloud platform gate, though the role clearly expects multi-cloud familiarity.
Ansible and Terraform are explicitly marked 'preferred' in the qualifications section, so they are flagged accordingly.
GitLab, Jenkins, and Bitbucket are all explicitly called out as 'a plus' in the qualifications section.
Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native concepts are listed under 'Familiarity with' in the qualifications block — a softer gate, but they appear in the primary requirements section rather than a nice-to-have section; marked required given their placement.
Morpheus is named in the narrative as the specific platform the engineer will develop in, making it a practical hard requirement even though it does not appear in the formal qualifications list.
The role sits at the boundary between Software Developer (15-1252) and Network/Systems Admin (15-1244): the posting emphasizes building infrastructure-as-code templates and a self-service portal (developer work), but also includes operationalizing workloads and cloud networking administration. The primary deliverable — coding templates and a self-service portal in Morpheus — tips it toward 15-1252.
A Bachelor's degree in Information Systems is listed but 'or equivalent experience in cloud engineering' is explicitly offered as an alternative, so no formal degree is hard-required.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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