Google Cloud Platform Engineer at Centurion Consulting Group
Boston, MA
$80,000–$86,000
Jul 21, 2026
Boston, MA
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on cloud engineering role supporting a U.S. Air Force contract focused on cloud modernization and shared services on Google Cloud Platform. Day-to-day work spans designing secure, scalable cloud architectures, managing DevSecOps tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible), containerizing applications, handling customer onboarding, and maintaining databases and technical documentation. Suits an experienced cloud engineer holding an active Secret clearance with broad multi-cloud and infrastructure-as-code background.
Mid level · 4+ years · Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH · Secret clearance
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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 $169,742 (middle half $134,780–$187,781).
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 (11)
The role is hybrid on-site near Hanscom AFB (Boston, MA) — not fully remote.
A Bachelor's degree is listed as the baseline, but the posting explicitly states additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree, so the degree requirement is set to None.
An active Secret clearance is a hard gate under Required Skills; US citizenship is also required (a prerequisite for the clearance).
The posting requires '1 or more cloud certifications' generically and specifically CompTIA Security+ (IAT-2) — both treated as hard gates. Google cloud certifications are listed only under Preferred Skills.
Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, and Guacamole appear in the Responsibilities section as tools to 'implement and maintain' — they are treated as required given the hands-on, operational framing of the role.
Elastic/Splunk: the Required Skills section calls out experience onboarding log data to 'Elastic or Splunk' — captured as a single interchangeable requirement with Splunk as the alternative.
Ansible also appears under Preferred Skills alongside AWS, Azure, Jira, Confluence, Git, Bitbucket, etc. — those preferred-section tools are marked as preferred. Ansible itself is already captured as required from the Responsibilities block.
The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role blends hands-on cloud software/IaC development (15-1252) with infrastructure operations and administration (15-1244). The emphasis on coding, architecting, and DevSecOps automation tips the primary classification toward Software Developers.
USAF Cloud One / Platform 1 experience is listed under Preferred Skills and is not captured as a named technology skill (it is a program/contract context, not a discrete tool).
Zero Trust Architecture is listed under Preferred Skills as a conceptual framework rather than a named technology — omitted per guidelines.
Requires a Secret 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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