This thought exercise suggests that someone with an NSA background will have significant trouble straying far from government-connected "private industry" work.
GovCloud is pretty much AWS (I got the impression basically a separate DC, switches, racks, etc. - an airgap of some sort I guess) and is accredited for U//FOUO workloads, which is where a lot of work has shifted to make it easier for contractors that are having trouble clearing people to TS/SCI quickly as well as to be able to do some work on platforms outside of a SCIF.
Contrary to the prevailing popular opinion that defense is run by complete idiots, a lot of programs are run by extremely intelligent people... that have a litany of pressures that are completely contradictory that results in completely insane outcomes.
