Senior Cloud / Azure Infrastructure Engineer at Peraton
Annapolis Junction, MD
$135,000–$216,000from the description
Jul 21, 2026
Annapolis Junction, MD
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior infrastructure engineering role focused on designing, building, and managing a government Azure cloud environment that hosts military cyber terrain and dependency data. Day-to-day work involves implementing Azure managed services, automating infrastructure provisioning with IaC tools, enforcing DoD security compliance across multiple impact levels, and producing data architecture and pipeline documentation. Suits experienced cloud engineers with a background in Azure GovCloud and DoD security frameworks.
Senior level · 12+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · TS/SCI 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 $158,337 (middle half $126,441–$180,105). 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)
The role is a genuine hybrid between cloud infrastructure engineering (building and managing Azure environments, IaC, CI/CD) and data architecture (Data Pipeline & ETL Documentation, Data Architecture Design). The primary framing is infrastructure/platform engineering, so 15-1252 Software Developers was chosen over 15-1243 Database Architects, but the data architecture deliverables make 15-1243 a credible runner-up.
Clearance requirement: the posting states 'Active TS with ability to obtain/maintain SCI' — this is a hard gate on an active Top Secret clearance with a path to SCI, classified here as TopSecretSci.
Degree requirement is set to None because the posting explicitly accepts equivalent experience in lieu of a degree (Associate +14 years, HS +16 years), meaning no formal degree is a hard gate.
The experience floor of 12 years is taken from the BS/BA track as the most common baseline; the posting also accepts 10 years with MS/MA or 7 years with Ph.D.
Microsoft Azure certifications (Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Security Engineer) are described as 'strongly preferred,' not required — omitted from the skills list as they are a credential rather than a named technology, and the preference language does not make them a hard gate.
IL4/IL5/IL6 impact-level experience is called out explicitly in the qualifications and is captured via the Azure GovCloud skill.
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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