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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: • 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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