Azure Cloud Engineer

Engagement Type

Contract

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 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

• Minimum 3 years of experience with Microsoft Azure services.

• 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.

• Experience with Office 365 services and administering Single Sign‑On (SSO) including Entra ID.

• 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).

Special Instructions

• Position requires a fingerprint‑based background check.

• Continued education is expected at the contractor’s own expense to stay current with VDOT technologies.

Required/Desired Skills

Skill Required/Desired Amount of Experience Microsoft Windows environments (2019+) Required 2.0 Years Server infrastructure, protocols, firewalls, certificates, load balancers Required 2.0 Years Microsoft Azure administration/engineering Required 3.0 Years Networking, server administration (Windows/Linux), databases, cloud environments Required 2.0 Years Scripting with PowerShell/Python Required 2.0 Years Continuous integration tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, TFS) Desired 1.0 Years Office 365 and Power Apps platforms Required 1.0 Years Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent) Required 1.0 Years Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) Desired 1.0 Years Experience with PCI or similar compliance frameworks Required 1.0 Years Key Vault, secrets and certificate management Desired 1.0 Years Single Sign-On and identity administration (Entra ID) Required 1.0 Years Azure certification (AZ-104, AZ-305, or similar) Desired 1.0 Years Experience with enterprise governance models Desired 1.0 Years Experience analyzing cloud cost trends and delivering cost-optimization recommendations Desired 1.0 Years Azure Virtual Desktops Desired 1.0 Years