Principal Cloud Engineer
Richmond, VAJob$66–76/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Insight Global is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to support a large-scale Azure cloud migration. The role leads Azure architecture and landing zone design, implements Infrastructure as Code solutions, and builds secure, scalable cloud environments. The ideal candidate has strong Azure expertise, hands-on experience with Terraform or Bicep, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work with executive stakeholders. Pay ranges from $66-$76 per hour, based on experience.
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Job Description
Insight Global is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer with 8+ years of experience in cloud engineering or cloud architecture to support a large-scale Azure cloud migration initiative. This individual will lead Azure architecture and landing zone design, implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions, and build secure, scalable cloud environments. The ideal candidate will have strong Azure expertise, hands-on experience with Terraform or Bicep, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work with executive stakeholders. The pay for this role ranges from $66-$76/hour, based on experience.
Skills and Requirements
- 8+ years of cloud engineering, cloud architecture, or infrastructure platform experience
- Strong experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale Azure environments and cloud architecture solutions
- Azure Administrator Certification: AZ-104
- Hands-on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience using Terraform, Bicep, ARM, or similar tools
- Experience with cloud automation and scripting using PowerShell, .NET, Java, or similar technologies
- Strong understanding of cloud security, governance, networking, scalability, and cost optimization
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and executive stakeholders
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert Certification: AZ-305
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 4,086 open Cloud Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$66–76/hr
- US median$60–75/hr151 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $71/hr, is 9% above the US median midpoint ($65/hr) — in the top quarter of Cloud Engineer hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 374 open Cloud Engineer jobs in Virginia and 4,086 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- Booz Allen Hamilton29 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Cloud Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,505 postings).
- Education
- 1,576 of the 4,086 open Cloud Engineer jobs (39%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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