Cloud Engineer
Apogee Engineering, LLC · Tampa, FL
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Jul 13, 2026
Tampa, FL
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior Cloud Engineer role embedded with a DoD special operations software acquisition office at MacDill AFB, FL. Day-to-day work centers on designing and evaluating multi-cloud and Kubernetes-based architectures, applying the Risk Management Framework, supporting DevSecOps pipelines, and advising on cloud platform selection for mission-critical SOF systems. The role suits an experienced engineer with a DoD or intelligence community background and an active TS/SCI clearance.
Senior level · 10+ years · Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL · Master's required · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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What the occupation pays Median $133,319 (middle half $102,659–$169,068).
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 role title is 'Cloud Engineer' with no seniority modifier, but the requirements (10+ years total, 5+ years DoD, expert-level advisory duties, multi-discipline engineering leadership) clearly support a Senior-level classification.
The degree requirement is a hard gate: both a Bachelor's in a technical field AND a Master's in any field are explicitly required as minimum qualifications. Degree requirement is set to Masters as the higher of the two.
The clearance requirement is stated as 'TS w/SCI eligibility,' which maps to TopSecretSci.
The 3+ years of experience in 'Cloud architecture, Kubernetes, enterprise DevSecOps, or similar' is listed as a single compound requirement; each named technology is captured separately as a hard gate since they appear under Minimum Qualifications.
No specific cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP) is named as required; the posting references 'major Cloud Platforms' generically. AWS/Azure/GCP are listed as preferred to reflect the multi-cloud context described in the responsibilities.
Docker is listed as preferred given it is implied by the Kubernetes/containerized workloads context but not explicitly named in the requirements section.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role blends cloud architecture/engineering (15-1252) with significant infrastructure operations and systems administration duties (15-1244); the emphasis on architecture design, DevSecOps, and Kubernetes orchestration tips it toward 15-1252.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Cloud architecture.
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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