Azure Cloud Engineer
Ampcus Inc· enterprise· Technology Consulting· Oct 6, 2026 · 21d ago
Mechanicsville, VA
In office
Full-time
Mid
$100K–$158K est.
3+ years exp
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.
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