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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:
• 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
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
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