Cloud DevOps SME with IRS MBI Clearance required. at 3M Consultancy
Washington, WA
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Jul 18, 2026
Washington, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior DevOps role focused on building and maintaining infrastructure-as-code templates, automated delivery pipelines, and policy-as-code controls within a federal environment. Day-to-day work covers integrating security scanning (SAST, SCA, container), managing configuration baselines, preventing drift, and supporting continuous authorization-to-operate monitoring. Suited to an experienced practitioner with a background in regulated or government settings and hands-on Terraform and Kubernetes/OpenShift work.
Senior level · 7+ years · Remote · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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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 (8)
The IRS MBI (Moderate Background Investigation) clearance is listed as required. MBI is a federal suitability/background investigation tier, not a standard DoD clearance level. It has been mapped to 'Secret' as the closest available clearance tier, but hiring managers should note this is an IRS-specific federal trust determination, not a DoD Secret clearance.
The title 'SME' (Subject Matter Expert) implies a senior practitioner but carries no standard seniority level label; advertised seniority is set to Unspecified accordingly.
Terraform is listed under the Evaluation Emphasis section with 'or equivalent IaC depth' — the requirement is firmly on IaC capability; Terraform is the named primary tool with common alternatives captured.
Kubernetes and OpenShift are listed together as 'Kubernetes/OpenShift experience' in the Minimum Qualifications — treated as interchangeable alternatives for the same requirement.
SAST, SCA, and container scanning are called out explicitly in the Evaluation Emphasis section as integration requirements and are treated as hard gates given the security-focused federal context of the role.
No compensation information was provided in the posting.
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.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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