Azure Cloud Engineer

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer to support the transformation and administration of resilient, secure Cloud environments for one of our clients. All work is performed fully on-site in Washington, DC.

Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, operate, and maintain resilient secure Azure Cloud environments to enable development teams to deliver features in the most efficient way possible.
• Operate and maintain cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code (Iac) and SRE principles.
• Server Provisioning: Provision and manage Azure virtual servers, ensuring they meet the required specifications for various user groups and applications.
• Deployment and Updates: Schedule and deploy updates to virtual desktops, applications, and infrastructure components while minimizing downtime and disruption to users.
• User Support: Respond to and resolve user tickets in a timely manner, providing technical support for the VDI environment, including connectivity, performance, and usability issues.
• Customer Service: Deliver excellent customer service by communicating effectively with end-users, understanding their needs, and ensuring a positive user experience.
• Security Compliance: Ensure that all deployments comply with the strict security protocols required in a classified environment.
• Maintenance and ongoing development of automation and continuous build/integration/deployment infrastructure for multiple environments; write, build and deploy scripts.
• Enable observability and resilience throughout multi-cloud landing zones and Dev/Test/Prod environments.
• Support implementation of security policies, standards, guidelines, and governance.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree and 4 or more years of related professional experience
• Active Secret clearance
• Must possess an active Security+ Certification (or higher IAM/IAT cert)
• Must possess an active OS level certification (ex. Azure, AWS, Microsoft, Linux, etc.)
• Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures of cloud technology, including Software as Service (SaaS), Platform as Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Ability to work in cloud environments with experience and knowledge in any of the following areas:
  • Azure Cloud administration and support
  • Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Agile collaboration tools such as Atlassian Jira, Confluence
  • Terraform, Ansible
• Experience working in Windows and Linux environments
• Ability to meet with customers to gather and understand business requirements

Compensation:

• $100,000-$120,000 **depending on experience**
• Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, and Sick Leave as required by law

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