Azure Cloud Operations & Engineering
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.
Monitoring & Troubleshooting
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.
Operational Support
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.
Security, Data & Compliance
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.
Collaboration
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
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.