Cloud Engineer
Two Six Technologies · Herndon, VA
$153,650–$230,476
Jul 26, 2026
Herndon, VA
Jul 27, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A cloud engineering role focused on designing and managing infrastructure for a classified intelligence program. The core work involves building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, migrating existing CloudFormation configurations, developing reusable modules, and collaborating with DevOps and security teams on CI/CD pipelines. Suited to experienced cloud/DevOps engineers with strong AWS and Terraform skills who hold an active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.
Senior level · 5+ years · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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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 $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 (9)
Location is not specified in the posting. Two Six Technologies is headquartered in Arlington, VA, but no work location is stated. Given the TS/SCI with Polygraph requirement and Intelligence Community mission, this role is almost certainly on-site at a cleared facility — remote is marked false.
The clearance requirement is an active TS/SCI with Polygraph — a hard gate explicitly stated in the posting.
A Bachelor's degree is listed but the JD explicitly accepts 'equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience,' so the degree requirement is set to None.
Docker and Kubernetes are listed together under 'familiarity with containers and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)' in the required section — both are captured as required skills. They are complementary technologies in this context, not true substitutes, so each is emitted separately.
CloudFormation is captured as a required skill because the role explicitly involves migrating existing CloudFormation code to Terraform, implying hands-on familiarity is needed.
Scripting language proficiency is required but no specific language is named in the requirements section; Python appears only under Nice to haves and is marked preferred.
Azure, GCP, and OCI appear only under Nice to haves alongside AWS (which is required); they are marked preferred with each other as alternatives.
SOC confidence is Medium: the role writes and ships infrastructure-as-code (Terraform modules, CI/CD pipelines) pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers, but has a strong infrastructure operations flavor (networking, IAM, cloud environments) that could support 15-1244.
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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