Cloud Systems Engineer
Applied Network Solutions Inc · Springfield, VA
$100,000–$185,000
Jul 21, 2026
Springfield, VA
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A cloud infrastructure engineering role focused on supporting, troubleshooting, and maintaining systems across multiple cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and OpenStack. Day-to-day work spans Tier I through Tier III issue resolution, container orchestration with Kubernetes, and automation using tools such as Ansible, CloudFormation, and Docker. Suits an experienced engineer with an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph and a relevant cloud certification.
Senior level · 12+ years · Bachelor's required · 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 $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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 is titled 'Cloud System Engineer' with no seniority level in the title; advertised seniority is therefore Unspecified. However, the 12-year experience requirement and the breadth of cloud, automation, and container skills support a Senior classification.
The SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role involves both building/automating cloud infrastructure (15-1252 Software Developers) and operating/maintaining cloud environments (15-1244 Network and Computer Systems Administrators). The development and automation emphasis (CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, Docker, container management) tips the primary classification toward 15-1252.
Location is not specified in the posting. Given the TS/SCI with Polygraph requirement, the role is almost certainly on-site at a cleared facility, but no city or state is named.
The TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph is explicitly required as a hard gate.
A bachelor's degree in a related technical field is explicitly required alongside the 12-year experience minimum — equivalent experience is not offered as a substitute.
AWS, Azure, and OpenStack are listed together as a group ('cloud solutions like AWS, OpenStack and Microsoft Azure'); they are captured as separate skills since the posting treats all three as part of the required stack, not as interchangeable alternatives. The 'like' qualifier introduces some ambiguity, but they appear under the Requirements heading.
Kubernetes (k8s) and EKS are listed together as container management systems; EKS is an AWS-managed Kubernetes service and is captured as an alternative to Kubernetes rather than a separate skill.
No compensation figures are provided 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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