About the Company
V Group Inc. is a New Jersey-based IT services and products company serving public-sector and enterprise clients. Through its Public Sector business unit, the company provides IT professional services to federal, state, and local government organizations.
About the Role
V Group Inc. is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer to support the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) on behalf of the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), specifically within its ITD Tolling group.
This role is part of the Engineering and Operations team and combines Azure cloud engineering, application support, infrastructure management, and rotational help-desk support. The engineer will help maintain reliable and secure cloud environments supporting tolling applications, integrations, roadway data, financial transactions, and reporting systems.
The position involves working with Azure services, API gateways, Azure Virtual Desktop, Application Insights, and Office 365 while ensuring compliance with applicable Virginia government security and governance policies.
Key Responsibilities
•Maintain, configure, and improve cloud resources within the Azure environment supporting tolling operations.
•Implement secure, highly available, and fault-tolerant Azure solutions.
•Ensure compliance with government requirements for security, identity and access management, network controls, and cloud cost governance.
•Maintain infrastructure documentation, naming conventions, tagging standards, governance records, and network and system topology diagrams.
•Conduct access reviews, manage role assignments, and evaluate least-privilege access controls.
•Manage vendor-required updates and verify compatibility with existing infrastructure.
•Monitor Azure services and application workloads to maintain uptime, availability, and performance.
•Troubleshoot connectivity, access, security, application performance, and service degradation issues.
•Use Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, logs, metrics, and traces to investigate incidents and identify root causes.
•Analyze and optimize system and application performance, including tolling application transaction flows and roadway sensor data ingestion.
•Participate in operational monitoring, incident reviews, maintenance readiness checks, and production support activities.
•Develop change requests, implementation plans, and rollback procedures, and provide off-hours support when required.
•Support integrations and data movement across tolling systems, roadway data sources, financial transactions, and reporting platforms.
•Apply PCI and other applicable regulatory requirements when reviewing system behavior, data handling, and logging practices.
•Manage Key Vaults, passwords, certificates, and secure credential storage.
•Implement and support Rubrik backup and recovery for Azure IaaS and PaaS, including backup policies, snapshot lifecycle tuning, and disaster recovery validation.
•Administer privileged access through Secret Server, including credential rotation, workflow troubleshooting, and integration with Azure workloads.
•Collaborate with architects, engineers, managers, and cross-functional teams on cloud architecture, operational improvements, and concurrent technical projects.
•Provide guidance on SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS best practices and communicate technical requirements clearly to internal and external stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
•At least 3 years of experience with Microsoft Azure administration and engineering.
•At least 3 years of experience supporting VDOT/E-ZPass Virginia tolling applications, infrastructure, and cloud workloads, including transaction-flow diagnostics, roadway sensor data ingestion, and application performance tuning.
•At least 5 years of experience working in Microsoft Windows environments, including Windows Server 2019 or later.
•At least 2 years of experience with server infrastructure, protocols, firewalls, certificates, and load balancers.
•At least 2 years of experience with networking, server administration across Windows and Linux, databases, and cloud environments.
•At least 2 years of experience implementing Rubrik backup and recovery for Azure IaaS/PaaS.
•At least 2 years of experience with PowerShell and/or Python scripting.
•At least 2 years of experience administering Secret Server privileged access vaults.
•At least 1 year of experience with Office 365, Power Apps, and single sign-on (SSO) administration using Microsoft Entra ID.
•At least 1 year of experience working with PCI or similar compliance frameworks.
•At least 1 year of experience with enterprise governance models.
•A bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or equivalent experience.
•Ability to communicate technical requirements and design concepts clearly.
•Ability to create and maintain network and system topology documentation.
Preferred Qualifications
•Experience with continuous integration tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, or TFS.
•Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or equivalent technologies.
•Experience with containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
•Experience managing Azure Key Vault, secrets, and certificates.
•An Azure certification such as AZ-104, AZ-305, or an equivalent certification.
•Experience analyzing cloud cost trends and recommending cost optimization measures.
•Experience supporting Azure Virtual Desktop environments.
Employment Details
•Position: Azure Cloud Engineer.
•Client: Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA).
•Department: VDOT ITD Tolling.
•Location: Mechanicsville, Virginia 23116.
•Work arrangement: Remote.
•Employment type: Contract.
•Duration: 9+ months.
•Interview format: Webcam interview.