Azure Certification Cloud Engineer - Remote

• Design, implement, maintain, and support Microsoft Azure cloud resources.
• Ensure compliance with Virginia security, IAM, networking, and cloud cost-governance policies.
• Maintain cloud documentation, naming conventions, tagging standards, and governance artifacts.
• Manage access reviews, role assignments, and least-privilege IAM.
• Implement highly available and fault-tolerant Azure solutions.
• Manage vendor-required updates and compatibility.

• Monitor Azure services and application workloads for uptime and availability.
• Troubleshoot connectivity, access, security, application performance, and service issues.
• Perform diagnostics using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, logs, metrics, and traces.
• Analyze and tune cloud/system/application performance.

• Participate in operational monitoring, incident reviews, maintenance readiness, and production support.
• Troubleshoot production issues and document root-cause analysis.
• Create change requests, implementation plans, and rollback procedures.
• Support off-hours activities when required.

• Understand end-to-end data flows across tolling systems, roadway data, financial transactions, and reporting platforms.
• Support application integrations and data movement optimization.
• Manage Key Vaults, secrets, passwords, certificates, and secure credential storage.
• Apply PCI and other regulatory compliance requirements.

• Work with architects, engineers, managers, vendors, and cross-functional teams.
• Provide guidance on SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS solutions.
• Support multiple concurrent technical projects and communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Required Skills & Experience

• 3+ years Microsoft Azure administration/engineering
• 5+ years Windows Server environments (2019+)
• 3+ years VDOT / E-ZPass Virginia tolling applications, infrastructure, and cloud workloads
• 2+ years server infrastructure, protocols, firewalls, certificates, and load balancers
• 2+ years networking, Windows/Linux server administration, databases, and cloud environments
• 2+ years implementing Rubrik backup & recovery for Azure IaaS/PaaS
• 2+ years PowerShell and/or Python scripting
• 2+ years administering SecretServer privileged access vaults
• 1+ year Office 365 and Power Apps
• 1+ year Entra ID / Single Sign-On / identity administration
• 1+ year PCI or similar compliance frameworks
• 1+ year enterprise cloud governance
• Experience with Azure Virtual Desktops (AVD)

Preferred / Desired Skills

• Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, or TFS
• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
• Docker / Kubernetes
• Azure Key Vault and certificate management
• Cloud cost analysis and optimization
• Azure Virtual Desktop
• Azure certification AZ-104, AZ-305, or similar

Education