Cloud Engineer
00100 LEIDOS, INC. · 3898 Omaha, NE
$87,100–$157,450from the description
Jun 30, 2026
3898 Omaha, NE
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A cloud engineering role supporting Air Force programs, focused on deploying, maintaining, and scaling hybrid infrastructure in Microsoft Azure. Day-to-day work spans infrastructure automation with tools like Terraform and Ansible, container orchestration, CI/CD pipeline support, security compliance under a DevSecOps framework, and Tier-2/3 incident response including on-call coverage. Suited to candidates holding an active Top Secret clearance and hands-on Azure experience.
Mid level · 4+ years · Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA · 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 $127,974 (middle half $102,322–$140,166). 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 (12)
The role sits at the boundary between cloud infrastructure operations (15-1244) and infrastructure-as-code/automation engineering (15-1252). The heavy emphasis on IaC (Terraform, Ansible, ARM/BICEP), CI/CD pipeline integration, and containerization automation tips the classification toward Software Developers (15-1252), but the 24x7 monitoring, Tier-2/3 support, and on-call duties are strong 15-1244 signals — hence Medium confidence with 15-1244 as the runner-up.
The clearance requirement is Top Secret with the ability to obtain SCI prior to start — effectively a TS/SCI gate.
Degree requirement is None: the JD explicitly states 'Additional years of experience will be accepted in lieu of a degree.'
Total years minimum is set to 4 (Bachelor's + 4 years), the more demanding of the two stated paths (Master's + 2 years).
Three possible work locations are mentioned — Omaha, NE (primary), Lorton, VA, and Oklahoma City, OK. Omaha is used as the primary CBSA; the role is explicitly on-site and not remote.
Prometheus and Grafana are listed together as examples of monitoring tools ('Prometheus, Grafana, etc.') — they are complementary rather than interchangeable, but the JD presents them as a paired example set; Grafana is captured as an alternative to reflect the 'etc.' framing.
AWS, GCP, and OCI are listed alongside Azure as required public cloud platform proficiency; AWS is the primary skill with GCP and OCI as alternatives since Azure is already captured separately as the core platform.
CloudFormation is listed alongside Terraform and Ansible under IaC tools in the Basic Qualifications section and is therefore a hard gate.
SAST, DAST, and IAST appear together under Preferred Qualifications as interchangeable security testing tool types.
AZ-104 (Azure Administrator Associate) is listed as a required intermediate Azure certification; the Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification appears under Preferred Qualifications.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
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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