Cloud Engineer, Contract at 66degrees
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Jul 28, 2026
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Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A contract Cloud Engineer role (18-week engagement, fully remote within the US) focused on building and maintaining GCP-based infrastructure and data systems for enterprise clients of an AI/cloud consultancy. Day-to-day work spans infrastructure-as-code authoring, CI/CD pipeline setup, security and compliance enforcement, monitoring, and disaster recovery — with cross-functional collaboration across data and engineering teams.
Mid level · 3+ years · Remote · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 18,400 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 3,800–33,100
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is classified as Software Developers (15-1252) rather than Network/Systems Admins (15-1244) because the responsibilities center on writing IaC (Terraform/Deployment Manager), building CI/CD pipelines, and architecting cloud systems — work that ships code and automation — rather than purely operating existing infrastructure. However, the significant operational and monitoring duties make this a genuine borderline case.
The GCP data services (BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Dataflow, Firestore, Cloud Bigtable, Dataproc, Pub/Sub) are listed in the Qualifications section with firm language ('Experienced in deploying and optimizing'), so they are treated as required gates even though the breadth of the list is unusually wide for a single role.
The posting states 'Bachelor's degree … or equivalent work experience required,' which means equivalent experience is accepted in lieu of a degree — degree requirement is therefore set to None.
GCP Professional Cloud Architect and Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer certifications are explicitly listed as preferred.
No compensation figures are provided. The engagement is an 18-week contract, remote within the US with a preference for CDT timezone. Immediate availability is required.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): GCP Professional Cloud Architect.
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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