Azure Cloud Architect & Platform Lead (Virtual Lab)

Ampcus Inc; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampcus is seeking an experienced Azure Technical Architect / Lead Solution Architect for a Seattle onsite contract (6+ months). You will own end-to-end architecture, governance, and automated provisioning for a Virtual Lab platform hosted on Microsoft Azure, collaborating with engineering, DevOps, security, networking, and application teams.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in IT infrastructure and cloud architecture, strong Azure services expertise, IaC (Terraform), CI/CD, and enterprise

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years in IT infrastructure, enterprise architecture, and cloud computing.
• Hands-on expertise in Microsoft Azure and governance.
• Automation, CI/CD, and IaC tooling experience.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture, design, governance, and lifecycle management of the Virtual Lab platform on Azure.
• Define scalable, secure, automated cloud solutions for rapid lab provisioning.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise security, governance, and operational standards.
• Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, cloud operations, testing, security, networking, and apps teams.
• Architect platform capabilities supporting multiple topologies and environments.
• Oversee infrastructure automation, deployment pipelines, and resource provisioning on Azure.
• Conduct security posture reviews, compliance audits, and performance optimization.
• Maintain architecture blueprints, runbooks, and operational documentation.

Skills

Azure cloud architecture

Infrastructure automation

CI/CD pipelines

IaC tooling (Terraform)

Enterprise governance

Hybrid cloud integration

Security compliance

Identity management

English communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline

Tools

Terraform

Datadog

Azure Monitor

AppInsights

Job description

Ampcus is seeking an experienced Azure Technical Architect / Lead Solution Architect for a Seattle onsite contract (6+ months). You will own end-to-end architecture, governance, and automated provisioning for a Virtual Lab platform hosted on Microsoft Azure, collaborating with engineering, DevOps, security, networking, and application teams.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in IT infrastructure and cloud architecture, strong Azure services expertise, IaC (Terraform), CI/CD, and enterprise