Azure Infrastructure Engineer at Cayuse Holdings
Rosslyn, VA
$160,000–$180,000from the description
Jul 16, 2026
Rosslyn, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior cloud engineering role focused on designing, deploying, and maintaining Azure infrastructure for federal government customers, with an emphasis on security and compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP and NIST. Day-to-day work involves provisioning Azure resources, building CI/CD pipelines, automating operations with PowerShell and IaC tools, configuring networking components, and supporting cross-team coordination. An active Top Secret clearance is required, along with at least seven years of relevant infrastructure experience.
Senior level · 7+ years · National · Bachelor's required · Top Secret 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). 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 (7)
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role writes IaC (ARM/Bicep, PowerShell automation, CI/CD pipelines) which points to 15-1252 Software Developers, but a substantial portion of the work is operating and securing Azure infrastructure (networking, RBAC, compliance monitoring), which is closer to 15-1244. 15-1252 was chosen because the JD explicitly emphasizes building automation, reference architectures, and deploying via pipelines.
The clearance requirement is stated as 'Active Top Secret' — not TS/SCI — so TopSecret was used rather than TopSecretSci.
FedRAMP and NIST appear in the required qualifications section under compliance requirements ('Ensure compliance with applicable industry standards and regulations (e.g., NIST, FedRAMP...)'), so they are treated as hard gates.
Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Log Analytics appear in narrative/responsibilities context ('using native tools (e.g., ...)') rather than a hard-requirements section, so they are treated as preferred.
AKS and containerization/microservices experience are listed explicitly under 'Desired Qualifications' and are therefore preferred.
The title carries no seniority level word, so advertised seniority is Unspecified; the 7+ years requirement and scope of responsibilities support a Senior classification.
Requires a Top Secret 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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