
Secret Cloud Engineer
Colorado Springs, COFull-time$50–67/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Insight Global seeks a Secret Cloud Engineer to develop and sustain cloud environments supporting the Missile Defense Space Center and advanced sensing capabilities. The role designs secure cloud architectures and solutions across enterprise workloads, and develops automation for self-service resource provisioning. The position is onsite five days a week in Colorado Springs, with hourly pay of $50–$67 depending on experience and qualifications.
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Job Description
Insight Global is seeking a Secret Cloud Engineer to support the MDA. You will be at the forefront in the development and implementation of innovative solutions for critical elements supporting advanced sensing capabilities. You will be instrumental in ensuring efficient, sustainable, and secure command and control of our nation's space-based defense capabilities. This is an opportunity to make a tangible difference in a mission-critical environment.
Job Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, troubleshoot, and sustain cloud environments for the Missile Defense Space Center.
- Design and implement secure, scalable cloud architectures (VCF 9.0, AWS GovCloud, Azure for US Government) for enterprise workloads.
- Implement cloud-based solutions across IT problem space, including compute, storage, networking, software development, and DevSecOps.
- Work with system engineers to identify and define requirements for new systems/system modifications, developing designs, and implementing and testing solutions.
- Leverage strong communication and collaboration skills to ensure integration and compliance across cybersecurity, DevSecOps, sustainment, and application delivery teams.
- Develop and implement automation to expand the platform's self-service consumption model, enabling faster and more efficient resource provisioning for consumers.
This position is onsite five days a week in Colorado Springs, CO and pays between $50 -$67/hr depending on experience and qualifications.
Skills and Requirements
- Must have an active DoW Secret (or higher) Security Clearance
- Must meet DoD 8570 certification requirements (e.g. Sec+) within 60 days of hire
- 1+ years of general (full-time) work experience - May be reduced with completion of advanced education
- 1+ years of directly related experience in cloud engineering related roles
- Must have an understand principals supporting Cloud infrastructure components including compute, network, and storage
- Must be familiar with Kubernetes and containerization
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform
- Must have experience in a Linux computing environment
- Must have an understanding of compute, networking, storage, and DevSecOps
- Be able to obtain/maintain a DoW Top Secret Security Clearance w/ SCI eligibility
- Have a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field
- Have 1, or more, Cloud certifications (e.g, VMware Certified Professional - VCF Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert)
- Have experience with continuous delivery tools (VCFA Blueprints, GitLab, ArgoCD, etc.)
- Have experience supporting Department of Defense (DoD) or Federal cloud initiatives
- Have experience with model-based system engineering models and tools
- Have experience working in an agile environment
- Have experience administering a Linux environment (e.g. RHEL 9.x)
- Have experience writing and executing with automation tools
- Have experience with scripting languages (e.g. YAML, Python, Bash)
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 4,297 open Cloud Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$50–67/hr
- US median$58–72/hr184 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $58.50/hr, is 10% below the US median midpoint ($65/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Cloud Engineer hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 177 open Cloud Engineer jobs in Colorado and 4,297 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Colorado
- Oracle13 open
- General Dynamics Mis12 open
- Booz Allen Hamilton11 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Cloud Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 3,705 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,913 of the 4,297 open Cloud Engineer jobs (45%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 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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