Senior Power Platform Engineer

Ampcus, Inc; Warren Township (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampcus Inc. is seeking a hands-on Senior Power Platform Engineer to administer, secure, govern, and enhance enterprise Microsoft Power Platform services, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Dataverse, and Copilot Studio.

The role focuses on platform operations, ALM, automation, governance, and agent lifecycle controls, collaborating with Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, Microsoft 365, and business teams to ensure reliable services.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in enterprise technology or platform administration.
• 4+ years of hands-on Microsoft Power Platform experience.
• Deep knowledge of Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, and security governance.
• Experience delivering ALM across environments with CI/CD tools.
• Hands-on with PowerShell, REST APIs, and enterprise integrations.

Responsibilities

• Administer and monitor the Power Platform Admin Center across environments.
• Implement DLP policies and connector governance with security teams.
• Engineer controlled ALM releases using CI/CD pipelines.
• Govern Copilot Studio and enterprise agent lifecycle.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, and architecture teams.

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: Senior Power Platform Engineer

Location(s): Warren, NJ

Position Summary

We are seeking a hands‑on Senior Power Platform Engineer to administer, secure, govern, and enhance enterprise Microsoft Power Platform services, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Dataverse, and Copilot Studio.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for platform operations, application lifecycle management (ALM), automation, security, governance, and agent lifecycle controls. This role will collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, Microsoft 365, and business teams to ensure reliable platform services and responsible technology innovation.

Key Responsibilities

Power Platform Administration & Operations

• Administer the Power Platform Admin Center, including environment provisioning, groups, lifecycle management, security, Dataverse, connectors, and gateways across Development, Test/UAT, and Production environments.
• Monitor service health, performance, failures, usage, and capacity.
• Evaluate Microsoft releases and maintain operational standards, runbooks, and support documentation.
• Provide Tier 3 technical troubleshooting across Power Apps, Power Automate flows, Power Fx, Dataverse, authentication, APIs, and connectivity.
• Coordinate complex technical incidents with Microsoft Support.

Governance & Security

• Implement Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies, connector classifications, environment controls, and least‑privilege access in collaboration with Security, Risk, Privacy, Compliance, and Architecture teams.
• Maintain platform resource inventories and ownership records.
• Identify and remediate orphaned, inactive, high‑risk, or non‑compliant applications, flows, connections, environments, and agents.
• Establish citizen‑development and production standards, including governance of standard, premium, custom, and third‑party connectors.
• Ensure appropriate auditing and enterprise data access controls.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

• Engineer controlled application releases across Development, Test/UAT, and Production environments using Power Platform Pipelines and approved CI/CD tools.
• Prevent unauthorized direct changes to production environments.
• Manage solution packaging, managed and unmanaged solution standards, dependencies, environment variables, connection references, and deployment configurations.
• Implement source control, versioning, automated validation, testing, release approvals, rollback procedures, migration, and change‑management practices.

Copilot Studio & Agent Governance

• Administer Copilot Studio and enterprise agent development, testing, promotion, publication, sharing, and retirement across approved enterprise channels.
• Govern agent tools, toolkits, knowledge sources, topics, actions, APIs, connectors, and associated workflows.
• Validate authentication, permissions, and least‑privilege data access.
• Monitor agent performance, failures, usage, and capacity.
• Collaborate with AI Governance and Security teams to implement responsible AI practices, data protection, auditing, and agent lifecycle controls.

Engineering, Automation & Enablement

• Review Canvas apps, model‑driven apps, cloud flows, and integrations for security, scalability, supportability, and performance.
• Develop reusable engineering patterns and components.
• Automate administration, compliance checks, ownership changes, and resource cleanup using PowerShell, Power Platform CLI, Power Platform APIs, Microsoft Graph, and Azure DevOps.
• Maintain logging, alerts, and operational dashboards.
• Forecast Dataverse database, file, and log capacity requirements, along with licensing needs, including premium connectors and AI consumption.
• Mentor makers, developers, and support teams while providing technical documentation, standards, and architecture guidance.
• Guide integrations with enterprise systems, REST APIs, and Azure services.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in enterprise technology, application engineering, cloud engineering, or platform administration.
• 4+ years of hands‑on Microsoft Power Platform experience.
• Strong enterprise administration experience with Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, Power Platform Admin Center, environments, DLP policies, and connector governance.
• Demonstrated experience delivering ALM processes across Development, Test/UAT, and Production using solutions, Power Platform Pipelines, Azure DevOps, GitHub, or equivalent CI/CD tools.
• Working knowledge of Copilot Studio and enterprise agents.
• Hands‑on experience with PowerShell, Power Platform CLI, REST APIs, custom connectors, and enterprise integrations.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Entra ID, authentication, authorization, service principals, and enterprise security.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues across application, identity, data, and connectivity layers.
• Excellent technical documentation, communication, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in large, regulated enterprise environments.
• Advanced experience with Copilot Studio administration and AI/agent governance.
• Experience with Azure Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Key Vault, Microsoft Graph, GitHub Actions, or Power BI administration and integration.
• Knowledge of privacy, information protection, data residency, retention policies, and auditing.
• Relevant Microsoft Power Platform or Copilot Studio certifications.

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.