Cloud Engineer at DMI
$77,800–$85,341from the description
Jul 5, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level engineering role responsible for designing, administering, and improving a federal agency's Microsoft cloud environment across M365, Azure, and Microsoft Security platforms. Day-to-day work covers identity and access management, endpoint management for 700+ devices via Intune, security tooling in Defender/Sentinel/Purview, compliance with FedRAMP Moderate and Zero Trust frameworks, and building Power BI reporting dashboards. Suited to a deeply experienced Microsoft cloud engineer holding multiple current Microsoft certifications and a background supporting federal environments.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · 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 $101,310 (middle half $79,725–$129,425). 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 (10)
The posting requires a Bachelor's degree but explicitly accepts 'extensive Microsoft certifications and demonstrated enterprise experience' in lieu of a degree — the degree requirement is set to None accordingly.
The clearance gate reads 'must possess or be eligible to obtain' a Secret clearance; this is treated as a hard gate on eligibility, not merely a preference.
The compensation figures are labeled 'Minimum Salary Rate' ($77,800) and 'Median Salary Rate' ($85,341); no maximum is stated. The median is used as the upper bound of the reported range.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role spans cloud administration (15-1244), security architecture (15-1212), and some software/automation work (Power BI dashboards, PowerShell scripting). The primary day-to-day work — administering and operating Microsoft cloud services for a federal client — most closely maps to 15-1244, with 15-1212 as a strong runner-up given the heavy security and compliance emphasis.
IRS 1075 is listed under Required Skills but framed as 'familiarity with IRS 1075 or similar federal data protection requirements,' indicating awareness rather than deep expertise; treated as preferred.
The posting mandates eight specific current Microsoft certifications maintained for a minimum of 5 years. These are certification requirements, not discrete technology skills, and are captured through the underlying platform skills (M365, Azure, Entra ID, Intune, Sentinel, etc.) rather than listed as separate skill entries.
The requirement to submit 2–4 written technical document samples (not exceeding 5 pages total) is an application gate not representable as a skill.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): NIST SP 800-53.
Requires a 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.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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