Title: Senior Cloud Engineer Employee Type: Contract Location: Charlotte, NC, US Job Type: Infrastructure and Security Pay Range: $60 - $65 per hour Job#: 3026835 Job Description: Title / Position: Senior Cloud Engineer Location: Charlotte, NC - 8333 Forest Point Blvd Charlotte, NC 28273 - Hybrid allowance: 4x/week onsite, 1/week remote Contract Duration: Through EOY and likely extension beyond that Top Requirements: - Argo CD - Kubernetes/Docker/Swarm - Cloud experience - GCP highly preferred - AWS ok Plusses - Kore.AI experience - NLP/ML experience - SIP or voice over IP Day to Day Responsibilities/project specifics: This person will be talking with AI developers about sizing and scaling applications with respect to containerization. This person will not be doing hands on development or coding, but rather right sizing platforms metrics and ensuring optimal performance. The containers are housed within the Kore.AI platform, which is within AWS cloud. This will eventually be migrated to GCP and the migration will be part of the job duties of this resource. Argo is the CICD platform used to track code changes and deployments. Ideal candidates will have experience on the infrastructure vs. application side. The team is seeking someone with excellent communication and experience in the field. Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Apex team member can provide.

• Design and implement the enterprise data architecture • Lead the development of scalable, secure, and integrated data platforms to support analytics, compliance, and business operations • Own the design, operations, and reliability of everything from VPC architecture and firewall policy to remote access and infrastructure automation • Partner closely with Security and platform engineering, and own the networking domain

Overview With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers’ expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft’s portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world. The AI Workforce team is a global group of technical architects and strategists driving enterprise-scale adoption of agentic workflows through M365 Copilot, Microsoft Copilot Studio and AI Agents. We combine deep technical expertise with customer and competitive insights to influence product roadmaps and accelerate innovation. Our team resolves complex escalations, delivers technical enablement, and advocates for Copilot extensibility and agentic solutions. We operate across regions and industries, ensuring customers achieve measurable business outcomes while maintaining security, compliance, and operational excellence. As a Cloud Solution Architect - AI Workforce specializing in AI Agents & Evaluations, you will design and implement agentic solutions that power AI-driven workflows for enterprise customers. You will lead evaluation strategies for reliability and safety, mentor peers, and shape product direction through customer insights. This role blends delivery excellence with thought leadership—helping customers adopt Copilot and agentic frameworks at scale while influencing Microsoft’s AI strategy. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Responsibilities Technical Leadership Architect and deploy AI agent solutions leveraging Microsoft Copilot Studio, Agent Builder, and declarative frameworks. Define evaluation strategies for agent performance, safety, and compliance using metrics such as task success rate, latency, and failure rate. Mentor peers and guide readiness efforts aligned to corporate priorities like security, resilience, and AI innovation. Generate and evolve IP for emerging AI scenarios and represent Microsoft in technical communities through events, presentations, and content creation. Customer Centricity Act as the voice of the customer, synthesizing insights to influence product roadmaps and program improvements. Translate customer challenges into solutions aligned with Microsoft’s platform strategy, ensuring clear articulation of ROI and business outcomes. Anticipate dissatisfaction, define conditions of success, and ensure a seamless, connected customer experience that accelerates adoption and transformation. Business Impact Deliver operational excellence across engagements by applying governance principles and managing risk proactively. Execute value-based deliverables and prepare customers for operational readiness, long-term adoption, and well-architected, AI-enabled solutions. Identify and capture new opportunities for consumption and usage, collaborating across teams to accelerate deployment and ensure measurable customer impact. Other - Embody our culture and values. Qualifications Required/minimum qualifications - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 2+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting - OR equivalent experience. Other Requirements  - Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role’s job duties.  Additional or preferred qualifications - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 5+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting - OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 3+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting - OR equivalent experience. - 2+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external). - 2+ years experience working on technical projects. - Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications). - Advanced experience in Azure/M365 administration, development, and DevOps processes. - Proven expertise in Azure AI workloads, Copilot extensibility, and agentic frameworks. - Strong understanding of evaluation methodologies for AI systems (offline and real-time). - Proficiency in TypeSpec, Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit, and orchestration patterns. - Excellent consultative and stakeholder influence skills. - Demonstrated ability to lead technical engagements across global enterprise customers. - Experience driving adoption of AI-powered workflows and Copilot extensibility at scale. - Strong capability in risk management and governance for AI deployments. - Track record of mentoring and enabling technical readiness within diverse teams. - Familiarity with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), multi-agent orchestration, and declarative agent design. - Knowledge of compliance frameworks and responsible AI principles. - Hands-on experience with metrics-driven evaluation and quality assurance for AI agents. - Ability to represent Microsoft in technical communities through events, presentations, and content creation. Cloud Solution Architecture IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85,100 - $169,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $112,000 - $185,300 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Role Description Wir sind ein fast zwei Jahre altes IT Unternehmen, aktuell 50 MA, und suchen nun weiterhin Verstärkung, um Cloud-Projekte bei unseren Kunden durchzuführen. - Deine Arbeitszeiten selbst bestimmen? - von zuhause aus arbeiten (remote)? - den nächsten Schritt in Deiner Karriere gehen und lernen, wie man Teams leitet und ein Unternehmen führt? - einen Arbeitgeber, der Dich leistungs- und ergebnisorientiert bezahlt? Qualifications - bist seit 4 Jahren in Vollzeit berufstätig im Bereich Softwareentwicklung/DevOps und hast große Teile Deiner Erfahrung in Cloud-Infrastrukturen und Deployment-Prozessen gesammelt? - bringst Erfahrung in einem der großen Cloud-Dienstleister (z.B. AWS, Azure) mit? - hast einen Fokus auf eine oder mehrere Programmiersprachen wie z.B. Python, C++, C, Rust oder Go und bist dort ein Experte? - bist nicht kontaktscheu und kommunikationsfreudig? - bist gesegnet mit einem Growth Mindset und willst im Leben immer weiterkommen? - bist überzeugt davon, dass Dein Potenzial noch lange nicht ausgeschöpft ist? Benefits - Fixum: 70.000 € - 72.000 € - Zielgehalt: 77.000 € - 82.000 € (Umsatzbeteiligung an eigenem Umsatz, quartalsweise Ausschüttung) - 30 Tage Urlaub - IT Equipment deiner Wahl (Mac, Linux, Windows) - Gelebter interner Expertenaustausch und Support - Flexible Arbeitszeit und 95% - 100% Homeoffice - Remote-Arbeit im Ausland (GF war Co-Founder von rhome) Company Description - Innovation / Venture Studio focusing on Software Development, Legacy and MVP Development: - Supporting corporate clients in innovation / business modeling - Helping technical and non-technical founders getting from 0-1 - Technology focus: Cloud/DevOps, Embedded, C#, Java, SAP, AI, Quantum Computing, B2B SaaS - Software Development: - Supporting corporate customers in the areas of software development and DevOps - Assisting customers in identifying automation potentials that can be exploited with software - Developing customized AI agents for the continuous automation of increasingly challenging tasks in marketing, sales, customer success, HR and finance - Helping customers in the application and technical integration of AI agents