AWS Cloud Engineer at GCyber
Arlington, VA
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Aug 10, 2026
Arlington, VA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role supports a government customer building and operating secure AWS cloud infrastructure in classified and unclassified environments. The engineer will write infrastructure-as-code, develop automation and Lambda functions in Python, manage CI/CD pipelines, and handle cloud operations including patching, vulnerability remediation, and security hardening. It suits an experienced cloud engineer comfortable working within DoD/IC environments.
Senior level · 8+ years · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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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).
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The posting requires an active TS/SCI clearance AND the ability to obtain a CI Poly — the CI Poly is framed as an additional requirement, not a substitute.
The experience range is stated as 8–12 years; 8 is used as the minimum.
An IAT II certification (Security+, CCNA-Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, CND, or SSCP) is a hard gate but names no specific tool, so it is not listed as a skill.
Terraform and GitLab appear in the role description narrative rather than the formal Minimum Qualifications block; Terraform is marked required because the narrative describes it as a primary delivery tool, while GitLab and Docker are marked preferred as they appear only in the broader stack description.
AWS services beyond EC2 and CloudFormation (RDS, ELB, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, KMS) and Bash scripting appear in the role narrative rather than the Minimum Qualifications section and are marked preferred accordingly.
Prior DISA experience is explicitly called 'preferred' in the posting.
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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