Azure DevOps Cloud Engineer

Job Title: Azure DevOps Cloud Engineer

Location: 9120 Lockwood Blvd, Mechanicsville, VA 23116 -Onsite

Contract

DevOps & Cloud Engineering

CI/CD Engineering & Release Automation

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps (YAML and Classic) for microservices and APIs.
• Establish reusable pipeline templates, release standards, and guardrails for compliant, repeatable deployments.
• Implement secure secrets and key management using Azure Key Vault and managed identities in pipelines.
• Automate database deployment workflows (e.g., DACPAC/SQLCMD) and integrate migration steps into releases.
• Enable blue/green or automated rollback strategies to minimize downtime and risk.

Environment Consistency & Observability

• Standardize provisioning and configuration across Dev/QA/Prod environments; codify configuration baselines.
• Build monitoring dashboards and actionable alerts for pipeline and deployment health (App Insights, pipeline logs).
• Uphold DevOps best practices tailored to a compliant government environment.

Azure Resource Engineering & Governance

• Implement and maintain Azure services and governance standards (e.g., App Services, Function Apps, API Gateways/API Management, AKS) supporting Tolling workloads.
• Support identity and access management (e.g., Entra ID SSO and role assignments) following least-privilege principles.
• Ensure solutions are fault tolerant and highly available; coordinate change requests and rollback procedures.

Monitoring, Troubleshooting & Reliability

• Monitor Azure services and application workloads to ensure uptime and performance; perform diagnostic deep-dives with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.
• Triage production incidents, drive timely resolution, and document root cause findings; participate in operational cycles and maintenance readiness checks.

Compliance, Data Flows & Cost Awareness

• Consider PCI or comparable regulatory requirements when evaluating system behavior, logging, and integrations.
• Understand end-to-end data flows across tolling systems (e.g., roadway data, financial transactions, reporting) and support optimization of integrations.
• Contribute to cloud cost visibility and optimization recommendations; align operational choices with governance and budget goals.

Collaboration & Communication

• Partner with architects, developers, DBAs, and engineers to align deployments with secure network and identity configurations; communicate clearly with stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD (YAML & Classic).
• Azure application deployment engineering (e.g., App Services, Functions, Containers, APIs).
• Secure secrets & key management (Azure Key Vault, RBAC, managed identities).
• SQL deployment automation integrated with CI/CD.
• Logging & observability (App Insights, pipeline logs, dashboards, alerts).
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates).
• Scripting & automation (PowerShell and/or Python).
• Experience with Azure administration/engineering in production environments.

D esired Qualifications

• Experience designing CI/CD standards or DevOps frameworks for microservices.
• Containerization & orchestration (Docker, AKS); registry-integrated build and release pipelines.
• Governance & compliance automation (Azure Policy, RBAC standards, pipeline guardrails).
• Experience with PCI or similar compliance frameworks.
• Exposure to cloud cost analysis and optimization in enterprise environments.
• Azure certifications (e.g., AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400) preferred.

Guidelines

• Position requires a fingerprint-based background check.
• Candidate expected continued education to stay current with VDOT technologies.

Experience Requirements

Required

• Azure DevOps CI/CD (YAML & Classic) – 4 years.
• Azure App Services / Functions / APIs / Containers – 3 years.
• Secure Secrets & Key Management (Key Vault, RBAC, managed identities) – 3 years.
• SQL Deployment Automation (DACPAC, SQLCMD, CI/CD-integrated DB migrations) – 1 year.
• Environment Provisioning & Configuration (Dev/QA/Prod standardization) – 3 years.
• Logging & Observability (App Insights, pipeline logs, dashboards, alerts) – 3 years.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Bicep/ARM) – 2 years.
• Identity & Access (Entra ID), least-privilege IAM – 1 year.
• PCI or similar compliance frameworks – 1 year.

Desired

• AKS / Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) – 1 year.
• Governance & Compliance Automation (Azure Policy, RBAC, pipeline guardrails) – 1 year.
• Cloud Cost Analysis & Optimization – 1 year.