Job Description
Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.
Job Title: Azure Cloud Engineer
Location(s): Mechanicsville, VA
(Remote)
Job Summary
The Tolling Engineering and Operations team is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer. The role includes cloud engineering, application support, and rotational help-desk support within the Tolling group. Responsibilities include supporting API Gateways, Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), Application Insights, and Office 365.
Primary Responsibilities
Cloud Operations and Engineering
- Maintain and implement cloud resources in the Tolling Azure environment.
- Ensure compliance with Virginia government policies regarding security, IAM, network controls, and cost governance.
- Maintain and improve infrastructure documentation, naming conventions, tagging standards, and cloud governance artifacts.
- Assist with access reviews, role assignments, and least-privilege IAM evaluations.
- Manage vendor-required updates and ensure compatibility.
- Implement fault-tolerant and highly available Azure solutions.
Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and Diagnostics
- Monitor Azure services and application workloads to ensure uptime and availability.
- Troubleshoot issues related to connectivity, access, security, application performance, and service degradation.
- Perform diagnostic deep-dives using logs, metrics, traces, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics.
- Analyze and tune system/application performance.
Operational Support
- Participate in daily/weekly operational cycles, including pattern monitoring, incident reviews, and maintenance readiness checks.
- Triage production issues, ensure timely resolution, and document root-cause findings.
- Execute and support off-hours work as needed.
- Define change requests, detailed implementation plans, and rollback procedures.
Technical Development and Compliance
- Understand end-to-end data flows across tolling systems, roadway data, financial transactions, and reporting tools.
- Support optimization of integrations and data movement.
- Apply PCI or other regulatory compliance requirements when evaluating system behavior and logging patterns.
- Manage Key Vaults, passwords, certificates, and secure credential storage.
Collaboration and Communication
- Work directly with architects, engineers, managers, and cross-functional teams to use Azure services effectively.
- Provide best-practice guidance related to SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.
- Communicate clearly in written and verbal form with internal and external stakeholders.
- Support multiple concurrent projects of complex technical scope.
Qualifications
- Minimum 3 years of experience with Microsoft Azure services.
- Minimum 3 years of experience supporting VDOT / E-ZPass Virginia tolling applications, infrastructure, and cloud workloads, including hands-on diagnostic work with transaction flows, roadway sensor data ingestion, and tolling application performance tuning.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate requirements and design concepts clearly.
- Experience working in Windows environments.
- Experience implementing Rubrik backup and recovery for Azure IaaS/PaaS, including policy sets, snapshot lifecycle tuning, and DR validation.
- Experience with Office 365 services and administering Single Sign-On (SSO), including Entra ID.
- Experience administering SecretServer privileged access vaults, including credential rotation, vault workflow troubleshooting, and integration with Azure workloads.
- Solid scripting experience with PowerShell and/or Python.
- Ability to create network and system topology documentation.
- Experience with Azure Virtual Desktops.
- Experience with Office 365 services and Power Apps.
- Azure certification preferred.
Special Instructions
- Position requires a fingerprint-based background check.
- Continued education is expected at the contractor’s own expense to stay current with required technologies.
Skills:
| Skill | Required / Desired | Amount | of Experience | Expertise Rating | Move | |
| Microsoft Azure administration/engineering | Required | 3 | Years | |||
| Microsoft Windows environments (2019+) | Required | 5 | Years | |||
| Server infrastructure, protocols, firewalls, certificates, load balancers | Required | 2 | Years | |||
| Support of VDOT / E-ZPass Virginia tolling applications, infrastructure, and cloud workloads | Required | 3 | Years | |||
| Networking, server administration (Windows/Linux), databases, cloud environments | Required | 2 | Years | |||
| Implementing Rubrik backup & recovery for Azure IaaS/PaaS | Required | 2 | Years | |||
| Scripting with PowerShell/Python | Required | 2 | Years | |||
| Continuous integration tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, TFS) | Desired | 1 | Years | |||
| Administration of SecretServer privileged access vaults. | Required | 2 | Years | |||
| Office 365 and Power Apps platforms | Required | 1 | Year | |||
| Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent) | Desired | 1 | Year | |||
| Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) | Desired | 1 | Year | |||
| Experience with PCI or similar compliance frameworks | Required | 1 | Year | |||
| Key Vault, secrets and certificate management | Desired | 1 | Year | |||
| Single Sign On and identity administration (Entra ID) | Required | 1 | Year | |||
| Azure certification (AZ 104, AZ 305, or similar) | Desired | 1 | Year | |||
| Experience with enterprise governance models | Required | 1 | Year | |||
| Experience analyzing cloud cost trends and delivering cost optimization recommendations | Desired | 1 | Year | |||
| Azure Virtual Desktops | Desired | 1 | Year |
Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Mechanicsville, VA (Remote) |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Website | http://www.ampcus.com |
About Company
Ampcus Inc is a global technology and business consulting firm specializing in Digital Transforrmation, Big Data, Analytics, Cyber Security, Testing, IV&V, Infrastructure Management and Enterprise Solutions. Ampcus Inc is an SBA 8(a) certified Women and Minority Owned global Provider of broad range of consulting Services. From strategy to execution, our disciplined yet flexible approach starts and ends with our clients. By listening hard and working harder, their goals become our goals. We are an ISO 9000, ISO 20000, ISO 27000 and CMMi Level certified company.
Ampcus consultants have significant business, engineering and technology experience. Our consultants have over 20 years of business experience and an average of over 10 years of engineering and technology experience. This means that the project teams understand how systems work and how the technology impacts the business processes of organizations.
We believe that success of an engagement is determined by strong project management, clear communication and mutual commitment working collaboratively. Our methodology begins by listening to the customer needs, then working with their teams to gain a clear understanding of the requirements, while providing a knowledge transfer of best practices for the organization. As a recognized leader providing customized software services, management and engineering solutions to companies around the world, our ability to deliver is a "granted" that makes companies put their trust in us to answer their day-to-day business challenges and put them on a path for greater success. We are the choice for our clients because we look at our clients business from a growth perspective.
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Specialties: Digital Transformation, Big Data and Analytics, Infrastructure Management Services, Testing and IV&V, Cyber Security, Active Directory and E-mail Infrastructure, Project Management, Training, and ERP, CRM. EAI, BI
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