Azure Cloud Engineer

Job Title: Azure Cloud Engineer

Job Location: Mechanicsville, VA 23116 (Remote)

Requisition ID: 812168

Client Name: State of VA

End Client Name: Virginia Department of Transportation

Job Duration: 12+ Months

Minimum 3 years experience supporting VDOT /EZPass Virginia tolling applications.

Job Overview

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

Primary 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 leastprivilege IAM evaluations.
• Manage vendorrequired updates and ensure compatibility.
• Implement faulttolerant 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 deepdives 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 rootcause findings.
• Execute and support offhours work as needed.
• Define change requests, detailed implementation plans, and rollback procedures.
• Technical Development and Compliance
• Understand endtoend 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 crossfunctional teams to use Azure services effectively.
• Provide bestpractice 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 MicrosoftAzure services.
• Minimum 3 years experience supporting VDOT /EZPass 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 forAzure IaaS/PaaS, including policy sets, snapshot lifecycle tuning, and DR validation.
• Experience with Office 365 services and administering Single SignOn (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/orPython).
• Ability to create network and system topology documentation.
• Experience with Azure Virtual Desktops.
• Office 365 services and Power Apps.
• Azure certification (preferred).