Cloud/DevOps Engineer - III / Build Engineer

Ampcus Inc; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Richmond is seeking a highly motivated Cloud/DevOps Engineer - III with expertise in building and automating infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong networking knowledge, hands-on experience with automation tools, and the ability to contribute strategically to key projects. This role emphasizes collaboration across teams to deliver high-quality solutions in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to build, support deployment of customer workloads across various environments.
• Strong understanding of networking principles and configuration management.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Build, automate, and support advanced infrastructure engineering platforms.
• Deliver engineering expertise for strategic projects and product lifecycle support.
• Contribute to design, build, implementation, and automation of infrastructure solutions.

Skills

Infrastructure automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell)

Networking principles (IP addressing, VIPs, Cisco ACI)

Virtualization platforms (VMware)

Agile/SRE practices

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: Cloud/DevOps Engineer - III / Build Engineer

Location: Richmond, VA

Qualifications

• Proven ability to build, support deployment of customer workloads on-premise, private cloud, and collocated data center environments.
• Strong understanding of networking principles including IP addressing, VIPs, LTM flows, network boundaries, and Cisco ACI with knowledge of zero trust micro-segmentation.
• Experience with enterprise technologies such as i.e., virtualization platform VMware, data redundancy and reliability GPFS, storage LUNs.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, or shell scripting.
• Demonstrated experience applying Agile or SRE practices to modernize infrastructure delivery and enhance system reliability.

This position emphasizes Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) delivery squad, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) build practices, and robust integration of applications.

Responsibilities

• The Senior Infrastructure Engineer is a critical technical leader responsible for building, automating, and supporting advanced infrastructure engineering platforms.
• This role delivers hands-on engineering expertise cross-functionally for strategic projects and ongoing product lifecycle support, focusing on environments built on IBM AIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and the Microsoft Windows Server ecosystem.
• The engineer will actively and strategically contribute to the design, build, implementation, and automation of infrastructure solutions spanning on-premise private environments and third-party colocation (hosted) data centers.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and coordination for the build and implementation of infrastructure in support of customers and National IT demands.
• Partner with other National IT areas to drive efforts required to reduce infrastructure build cycle times.
• Serve as a core technical build engineer delivering infrastructure solutions through well-defined architectural frameworks and standardized build patterns, aligning with organizational policies, security standards, and operational readiness requirements.
• Leverage ServiceNow and related automation platform to streamline infrastructure build workflows, change management, and operational support.
• Implement, and maintain automated deployment and configuration solutions for hybrid infrastructure environments ensuring their lifecycle and appropriate.
• Develop and maintain detailed infrastructure connectivity and build plans covering installation, configuration, operational readiness, and production cutover.
• Contribute to program increment (PI) planning as a key member of agile squads, driving standardization and automation to support reliable delivery.
• Strategically design and develop scripts and tooling for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate closely and cross-functionally with application development, security, network, and engineering teams to ensure seamless solution delivery and support.

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.