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: Tolling Azure Cloud Engineer
Location(s): Mechanicsville, CA
(Remote)
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer to support cloud engineering, application support, and operational activities. The role involves implementing, maintaining, and supporting Azure cloud resources while ensuring security, availability, performance, and compliance. The selected candidate will collaborate with architects, developers, DBAs, engineers, and management to optimize cloud services and support business-critical applications.
The role includes working with Azure App Services, API Gateways, Function Apps, Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure Kubernetes Service, Application Insights, and Office 365, along with rotational help-desk support.
Responsibilities
Cloud Operations and Engineering
- Maintain and implement cloud resources within the Azure environment.
- Ensure compliance with government security policies, identity and access management (IAM), network controls, and cost governance requirements.
- 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 connectivity, access, security, application performance, and service degradation issues.
- Perform diagnostic analysis using logs, metrics, traces, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics.
- Analyze and optimize system and application performance.
Operational Support
- Participate in daily and weekly operational activities, including monitoring, incident reviews, and maintenance readiness checks.
- Triage production issues, ensure timely resolution, and document root-cause findings.
- Execute and support after-hours activities as required.
- Define change requests, detailed implementation plans, and rollback procedures.
- Participate in rotational help-desk and application support activities.
Technical Development and Compliance
- Understand end-to-end data flows across business systems, roadway data, financial transactions, and reporting tools.
- Support the optimization of integrations and data movement.
- Apply PCI and other regulatory compliance requirements when evaluating system behavior and logging patterns.
- Manage key vaults, passwords, certificates, and secure credential storage.
Collaboration and Communication
- Collaborate with architects, engineers, managers, and cross-functional teams to use Azure services effectively.
- Provide best-practice guidance on SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS solutions.
- Communicate technical requirements and design concepts clearly to internal and external stakeholders.
- Support multiple concurrent projects involving complex technical requirements.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 3 years of experience working with Microsoft Azure services.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
- Experience working in Windows environments.
- Experience administering Office 365 services and Single Sign-On (SSO), including Microsoft Entra ID.
- Strong scripting skills using PowerShell and/or Python.
- Ability to create network and system topology documentation.
- Experience with Azure Virtual Desktop.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate technical requirements and design concepts effectively.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Office 365 services and Power Apps.
- Azure certification.
- Knowledge of Azure cloud security, governance, monitoring, and cost optimization best practices.
Work Arrangement and Additional Requirements
- Fingerprint-based background check is required.
- Continued education and professional development are expected at the contractor's own expense to maintain proficiency with relevant technologies.
Skills:
| Skill | Required / Desired | Amount | of Experience | Expertise Rating | Move | |
| Microsoft Windows environments (2019+) | Required | 2 | Years | |||
| Server infrastructure, protocols, firewalls, certificates, load balancers | Required | 2 | Years | |||
| Microsoft Azure administration/engineering | Required | 3 | Years | |||
| Networking, server administration (Windows/Linux), databases, cloud environments | Required | 2 | Years | |||
| Scripting with PowerShell/Python | Required | 2 | Years | |||
| Continuous integration tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, TFS) | Desired | 1 | Years | |||
| Office 365 and Power Apps platforms | Required | 1 | Years | |||
| Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent) | Required | 1 | Years | |||
| Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) | Desired | 1 | Years | |||
| Experience with PCI or similar compliance frameworks | Required | 1 | Years | |||
| Key Vault, secrets and certificate management | Desired | 1 | Years | |||
| Single Sign-On and identity administration (Entra ID) | Required | 1 | Years | |||
| Azure certification (AZ-104, AZ-305, or similar) | Desired | 1 | Years | |||
| Experience with enterprise governance models | Desired | 1 | Years | |||
| Experience analyzing cloud cost trends and delivering cost-optimization recommendations | Desired | 1 | Years | |||
| Azure Virtual Desktops | Desired | 1 | Years |
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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