Job ID: 812168
Job Title: Azure Cloud Engineer
Work Arrangement: Fully Remote
Work Location: 9120 Lockwood Blvd, Mechanicsville, VA 23116
Interview Type: Web Cam Interview Only
Job Description
Client is seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer to manage, maintain, and optimize cloud infrastructure supporting VDOT/E-ZPass Virginia tolling applications. The role focuses on Azure administration, infrastructure reliability, security compliance, monitoring, troubleshooting, backup and disaster recovery, and operational support.
Key Responsibilities
Manage and optimize Azure cloud resources, ensuring high availability, security, performance, and cost efficiency.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve infrastructure, connectivity, access, and application performance issues.
Support VDOT/E-ZPass tolling systems, including transaction flows, roadway sensor data ingestion, integrations, and reporting.
Administer Entra ID, SSO, IAM, Secret Server, Azure Key Vault, certificates, and privileged access controls.
Implement and maintain Rubrik backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions for Azure IaaS/PaaS.
Maintain cloud governance standards, technical documentation, network diagrams, and compliance requirements, including PCI.
Develop automation scripts using PowerShell and/or Python and support infrastructure changes, incident management, and root cause analysis.
Collaborate with architects, engineers, vendors, and stakeholders to improve cloud operations and implement technical best practices.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
Minimum 3 years of Microsoft Azure administration/engineering experience.
Minimum 3 years supporting VDOT/E-ZPass Virginia tolling applications, infrastructure, and cloud workloads.
5 years of experience in Microsoft Windows Server environments (2019 or later).
2+ years of experience with server infrastructure, networking, firewalls, protocols, certificates, load balancers, and Windows/Linux administration.
2+ years of experience implementing Rubrik backup and recovery for Azure IaaS/PaaS.
2+ years of PowerShell/Python scripting and Secret Server privileged access vault administration.
Experience with Office 365, Power Apps, Entra ID/SSO, and PCI or similar compliance frameworks.
Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Azure certifications such as AZ-104 or AZ-305.
Experience with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git/TFS, Terraform, Docker, or Kubernetes.
Knowledge of Azure Key Vault, Azure Virtual Desktop, enterprise governance, and cloud cost optimization.