Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS) at Peraton
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$104,000–$166,000from the description
Jul 16, 2026
UNAVAILABLE
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level cloud engineering role supporting a federal TSA program, focused on designing, building, and maintaining secure infrastructure across AWS and Azure. Day-to-day work spans IaC development, compliance with federal security frameworks, cloud migration, and performance optimization. The role also involves technical mentorship and translating mission requirements into cloud architecture solutions, suited to engineers with a strong federal or regulated-environment background.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 5,600 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,150–10,000
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). 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 (9)
The role requires the ability to obtain/maintain a DHS Entrance on Duty (EOD) clearance — this is a suitability/background-check requirement, not a formal US security clearance level (Confidential/Secret/TS), so the clearance requirement is set to None. Candidates must be US citizens.
The degree requirement is flexible: the JD accepts a High School diploma with 12 years, Associate's with 10, Bachelor's with 8, or Master's with 6 — no single degree is hard-gated, so the degree requirement is None.
The overall years minimum is set to 5 (the stated 'overall IT experience' floor); the 4+ years of cloud-focused experience is captured as the years demanded on the AWS and Azure skills.
The SOC classification is Medium confidence. The role emphasizes IaC authoring, cloud architecture, and automation (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a significant infrastructure operations and compliance monitoring component that could support 15-1244. The IaC/engineering framing wins.
Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins are listed as interchangeable CI/CD pipeline options under the required qualifications; they are captured as a single skill with alternatives.
Terraform, ARM, Bicep, and CloudFormation are listed as interchangeable IaC options under required qualifications; captured as one skill with alternatives.
Containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, EKS), scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash), and tooling (ServiceNow, Chef, Nexus, Selenium) all appear under Preferred Qualifications.
Active Public Trust or higher clearance and cloud certifications are listed as preferred, not required.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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