Azure Cloud Engineer - Remote / Telecommute

Job Title: Azure Cloud Engineer - Remote / Telecommute

Job Location: Mechanicsville, VA

Job Type: Contract

Pay Range: $65.00hr - $70.00hr

Job Overview:

Our client is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer to join the Engineering and Operations team. The role includes engineering, application support, and rotational help-desk support within the Tolling group, covering API Gateways, Azure Virtual Desktops (AVD), App Insights, and Office 365.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Maintain and implement cloud resources in the cloud environment.
• Ensure compliance with government policies regarding security, IAM, network controls, and cost governance.
• Maintain and improve infrastructure documentation, naming conventions, tagging standards, and cloud governance artifacts.
• Assist with access reviews, role assignments, and least-privilege IAM evaluations.
• Manage vendor-required updates and ensure compatibility.
• Implement fault-tolerant and highly available Azure solutions.
• Monitor Azure services and application workloads to ensure uptime and availability.
• Troubleshoot issues related to connectivity, access, security, application performance, and service degradation.
• Perform diagnostic deep-dives using logs, metrics, traces, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics.
• Analyze and tune system/application performance.

Operational Support:

• Participate in daily/weekly operational cycles including pattern monitoring, incident reviews, and maintenance readiness checks.
• Triage production issues, ensure timely resolution, and document root-cause findings.
• Execute and support off-hours work as needed.
• Define change requests, detailed implementation plans, and roll-back procedures.

Technical Development and Compliance:

• Understand end-to-end data flows across tolling systems, roadway data, financial transactions, and reporting tools.
• Support optimization of integrations and data movement.
• Apply PCI or other regulatory compliance requirements when evaluating system behavior and logging patterns.
• Manage key vaults, passwords, certificates, and secure credential storage.

Collaboration and Communication:

• Work directly with architects, engineers, managers, and cross-functional teams to use Azure services effectively.
• Provide best-practice guidance related to SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.
• Communicate clearly in written and verbal form with internal and external stakeholders.
• Support multiple concurrent projects of complex technical scope.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 3 years of experience with Microsoft Azure administration/engineering.
• Minimum 3 years of experience supporting tolling applications, infrastructure, and cloud workloads, including hands-on diagnostic work with transaction flows, roadway sensor data ingestion, and tolling application performance tuning.
• Bachelor s degree in computer science, information systems, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate requirements and design concepts clearly.
• Minimum 5 years of experience working in Microsoft Windows environments (2019+).
• Minimum 2 years of experience with server infrastructure, protocols, firewalls, certificates, and load balancers.
• Minimum 2 years of experience implementing Rubrik backup and recovery for Azure IaaS/PaaS, including policy sets, snapshot lifecycle tuning, and DR validation.
• Minimum 1 year of experience with Office 365 services, Power Apps platforms, and administering Single Sign-On (SSO) with Entra ID.
• Minimum 2 years of experience administering SecretServer privileged access vaults, including credential rotation, vault workflow troubleshooting, and integration with Azure workloads.
• Minimum 2 years of solid scripting experience with PowerShell and/or Python.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in networking, server administration (Windows/Linux), databases, and cloud environments.
• Minimum 1 year of experience with PCI or similar compliance frameworks.
• Minimum 1 year of experience with enterprise governance models.
• Ability to create network and system topology documentation.
• Experience with Azure Virtual Desktops.
• Azure certification (AZ-104, AZ-305, or similar) is preferred.
• Experience with continuous integration tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, TFS) is preferred.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent) is preferred.
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) is preferred.
• Experience with Key Vault, secrets, and certificate management is preferred.
• Experience analyzing cloud cost trends and delivering cost optimization recommendations is preferred.

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• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Disability Insurance (Short-Term and Long-Term)
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Paid Sick Leave (where required by applicable state or local law)
• Supplemental Insurance Plans
• Identity Theft Protection
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Wellness Programs
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Career Growth and Professional Development Opportunities