Senior Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Phone/Skype Hire. Onsite from day 1

Location: Mechanicsville, VA

Duration: 12+ months

The role includes engineering, aplication support, and rotational help desk support within the Tolling group. Includes API Gateways, AVD, App Insights, & Office 365.

Responsibilities

Cloud Operations and Engineering

Maintain and implement cloud resources in the Tolling Azure environment.

Ensure compliance with Virginia 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.

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.

Skills Needed

Microsoft Azure administration/engineering Required 3 Years

Microsoft Windows environments (2019+) Required 5 Years

Server infrastructure, protocols, firewalls, certificates, load balancers Required 2 Years

Support of VDOT / E-ZPass Virginia tolling applications, infrastructure, and cloud workloads Required 3 Years

Networking, server administration (Windows/Linux), databases, cloud environments Required 2 Years

Implementing Rubrik backup & recovery for Azure IaaS/PaaS Required 2 Years

Scripting with PowerShell/Python Required 2 Years

Continuous integration tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, TFS) Desired 1 Years

Administration of SecretServer privileged access vaults. Required 2 Years

Office 365 and Power Apps platforms Required 1 Years

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent) Desired 1 Years

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) Desired 1 Years

Experience with PCI or similar compliance frameworks Required 1 Years

Key Vault, secrets and certificate management Desired 1 Years

Single Sign On and identity administration (Entra ID) Required 1 Years

Azure certification (AZ 104, AZ 305, or similar) Desired 1 Years

Experience with enterprise governance models Required 1 Years

Experience analyzing cloud cost trends and delivering cost optimization recommendations Desired 1 Years

Azure Virtual Desktops Desired 1 Years