Cleared Azure Cloud Engineer at Virtual Service Operations
Lorton, VA
$140,000–$180,000
Aug 18, 2026
Lorton, VA
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An on-site Azure Cloud Engineer role supporting a government-contracted managed services environment near Lorton, VA. The position centers on building and maintaining Azure infrastructure through IaC tooling and CI/CD pipelines, managing secure enclave environments, and administering Windows/Active Directory services. Candidates must hold an active TS/SCI clearance and be willing to work on-site with up to 10% travel.
Senior level · 5+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $158,337 (middle half $126,441–$180,105).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 20, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The role blends IaC/pipeline development (pointing toward Software Developers) with infrastructure operations and Windows/AD administration (pointing toward Network and Computer Systems Administrators); Software Developers was chosen as primary because a substantial portion of the work involves writing and shipping code via CI/CD pipelines and IaC.
Terraform, ARM templates, and Bicep are listed together as interchangeable IaC options under the requirements section; Terraform is used as the primary name with the others in alternatives.
DSC and Packer appear in a 'preferred' framing ('automation first mentality') rather than a hard gate, so they are marked preferred.
Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-305) are explicitly called 'highly desirable,' so they are marked preferred.
A Bachelor's degree is listed but explicitly allows 'equivalent experience,' so no minimum degree is recorded.
An active TS/SCI clearance is a hard gate per the Requirements section.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Active Directory Domain Services.
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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