Azure Cloud Engineer

Job Title: Azure Cloud Engineer

Location: Washington, DC (FULLY ONSITE)

Company: Zachary Piper Solutions

Clearance Required: Secret, or interim Secret

Full Job Description:

Zachary Piper Solutions is looking for an Azure Cloud Engineer to join a growing team in support of a government agency. This position will be 5 days on site a week, located in Washington, DC.

Responsibilities/Overview:

• 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.

Required Qualifications:

• Secret Clearance preferred, sponsored interim secret clearance available.
• Security+ certification or higher

• Bachelor's Degree and 4 or more years of related professional experience

• 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:

o Azure Cloud administration and support

o Azure Virtual Desktop

o Agile collaboration tools such as Atlassian Jira, Confluence

o Terraform, Ansible

• Experience working in Windows and Linux environments

• Ability to meet with customers to gather and understand business requirements

• Ability to quickly adapt to new situations and changing priorities

• Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines, and handle multiple projects simultaneously

Compensation and Benefits:

·        $100,000 - $115,000+ Dependent on experience

·        Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, PTO, Sick Leave as required by law, and Holidays.

This job opens for applications on 6/10/25. Applications for this job will be