Operations and Maintenance Technician - Azure Landing Zone & Azure Virtual Deskt

AIS (Applied Information Sciences); United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

AIS is seeking an Operations and Maintenance Technician focused on Azure Landing Zone and Azure Virtual Desktop to ensure the health and performance of our Azure infrastructure. You will provide hands-on administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and operational support for core Azure services within governed environments.

Ideal candidates have practical experience with Azure-based enterprise environments, cloud operational disciplines, and collaboration within governance and change management

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Azure Landing Zone and Azure Virtual Desktop.
• Experience implementing security controls, DR/BCP, and automated IaC with deployment pipelines.
• Proven ability to perform capacity planning and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day health, stability, and performance of Azure Landing Zone infrastructure.
• Administer core Azure services: VNETs, NSGs, route tables, storage, Key Vault, backup, monitoring.
• Provide on-going support for Azure Virtual Desktop host pools, session hosts, and user access configurations.
• Collaborate with identity, networking, storage, and endpoint teams to deliver Azure infrastructure solutions.
• Maintain runbooks, asset inventories, and operational procedures for Azure infra.

Skills

Azure Landing Zone

Azure Virtual Desktop

IaC automation

Security controls

Performance tuning

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS

Tools

Azure Portal

Azure DevOps

Azure Monitor

Job description

Why AIS? When you join AIS, you're joining a mission-driven team that's passionate about making a difference. You'll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

Employee Ownership : Your contributions directly impact the company's success, and you share in its achievements.

Continuous Learning : Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

Inclusive Culture : A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone's voice is valued.

Mission-Driven Work : Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

What are we looking for?

At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

Working@AIS

At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects.

Core Knowledge & Skills

• Designs complex network and hybrid-cloud solutions
• implements security controls, DR/BCP, and automated IaC with deployment pipelines
• performs advanced performance tuning

Work & Complexity

• Solves complex issues, designs and delivers new infrastructure solutions
• performs capacity planning
• and leads advanced automation initiatives

Quality & Independence

• Drives root‑cause analysis
• enforces best practices and QA on changes
• optimizes for reliability and user experience
• operates with high autonomy

Teamwork & Communication

• Leads cross‑functional efforts
• mentors juniors
• facilitates knowledge transfer
• and aligns stakeholders with technical plans

Consulting & Engagement

• Provides strategic input on infrastructure initiatives
• recommends advanced technologies
• and manages vendor relationships

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Operations and Maintenance Technician - Azure Landing Zone & Azure Virtual Desktop.

Position Summary

The Operations and Maintenance Technicianis responsible forsupporting the day-to‑day health, stability, and operational performance of Azure Landing Zone infrastructure and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environments.

This role provides hands‑on administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, maintenance, and operational support across core Azure services, platform governance constructs, and virtual desktop infrastructure.

The ideal candidate has practical experience supporting Azure‑based enterprise environments, understands cloud operational disciplines, and can work effectively within established governance, security, and change management processes.

Key Responsibilities

Azure Landing Zone Operations Support

• Support the ongoing operation and maintenance of Azure Landing Zone components, including management groups, subscriptions, policies, role‑based access controls, and networking constructs.
• Monitor platform health, configuration compliance, and resource performance across Azure environments.
• Assistwith administration of core Azure infrastructure services such as virtual networks, network security groups, route tables, storage accounts, key vaults, backup, monitoring, and resource locks.
• Perform routine operational tasks including validation checks, configuration updates, patch coordination, log review, andissueremediation.
• Support enforcement of governance and security controls through Azure Policy, tagging standards, and operational guardrails.
• Assistin incident response, root cause analysis, and problem resolution for Azure platform‑related issues.
• Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, asset inventories, and support procedures for Azure infrastructure services.

Azure Virtual Desktop Support

• Provide day‑to‑day support for Azure Virtual Desktop host pools, session hosts, application groups, workspaces,FSLogixprofiles, and user access configurations.
• Monitor AVD service health, user session performance, host availability, and capacityutilization.
• Troubleshoot user connectivity issues, session reliability problems, login delays, profile container issues, and application delivery concerns.
• Assistwith session host provisioning, image updates, scaling support and maintenance activities.
• Support integration and operational coordination with identity, networking, storage, and endpoint management teams asrequiredfor AVD service delivery.
• Helpmaintainsecure and stable end‑user virtual desktop environments in accordance withorganizational standards.
• Participate in testing and validation of AVD changes, updates, and operational improvements prior to production implementation.

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