Azure Cloud Engineer || Mechanicsville, VA (Remote) || 12+Months || Video

Title: Azure Cloud Engineer
Location: Mechanicsville, VA (Remote) locals preferred

Duration: Long term

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Special Instructions

• Position requires a fingerprint based background check.
• Continued education is expected at the contractor's own expense to stay current with client's technologies.

Job Description:

Client is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer to join the Eng and Ops team. The role includes engineering, application support, and rotational help desk support within the Tolling group. Includes API Gateways, AVD, App Insights, & Office 365.

Support of VDOT / E-ZPass Virginia tolling applications, infrastructure, and cloud workloads Required

Primary Responsibilities

Cloud Operations and Engineering

• Maintain and implement cloud resources in the Tolling Azure environment.
• Ensure compliance with Virginia government tpolicies regarding security, IAM, network controls, and cost governance.
• Maintain and improve infrastructure documentation, naming conventions, tagging standards, and cloud governanceartifacts.
• 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.

Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and Diagnostics

• 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, roadways 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

• Experience with Microsoft Azure services.
• Experience supporting VDOT /E ZPass Virginia 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.
• Experience working in Windows environments.
• Implementing Rubrik backup & recovery for Azure IaaS/PaaS, including policy sets, snapshot lifecycle tuning, and DRvalidation.
• Experience with Office 365 services and administering Single Sign On (SSO) including Entra ID.
• Experience administering Secret Server privileged access vaults including credential rotation, vault workflow troubleshooting, and integration with Azure workloads.
• Solid scripting experience (PowerShell and/or Python).
• Ability to create network and system topology documentation.
• Experience with Azure Virtual Desktops.
• Office 365 services and Power Apps.
• Azure certification (preferred).

Required / Desired Skills

Skill Required / Desired Amount of Experience

• Microsoft Azure administration/engineering Required
• Microsoft Windows environments (2019+) Required
• Server infrastructure, protocols, firewalls, certificates, load balancers Required
• Support of VDOT / E-ZPass Virginia tolling applications, infrastructure, and cloud workloads Required
• Networking, server administration (Windows/Linux), databases, cloud environments Required
• Implementing Rubrik backup & recovery for Azure IaaS/PaaS Required
• Scripting with PowerShell/Python Required
• Continuous integration tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, TFS) Desired
• Administration of Secret Server privileged access vaults. Required
• Office 365 and Power Apps platforms Required
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent) Desired
• Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) Desired
• Experience with PCI or similar compliance frameworks Required
• Key Vault, secrets and certificate management Desired
• Single Sign On and identity administration (Entra ID) Required
• Azure certification (AZ 104, AZ 305, or similar) Desired
• Experience with enterprise governance models Required
• Experience analyzing cloud cost trends and delivering cost optimization recommendations Desired
• Azure Virtual Desktops Desired

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