Azure Cloud Engineer

• 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, and financial transactions, and reporting tools.

• Support optimization of integrations and data movement.
• Apply PCI or other regulatory compliance requirements when evaluating system behaviour 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.

• Minimum 3 years experience supporting VDOT /E?ZPass Virginia tolling applications, infrastructure, and cloud workloads, including hands-on diagnostic work with transaction flows, roadway sensor data ingestion, and tolling application performance tuning.
• 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.
• Implementing Rubrik backup & recovery for Azure IaaS/PaaS, including policy sets, snapshot lifecycle tuning, and DR validation.
• Experience with Office 365 services and administering Single Sign?On (SSO) including Entra ID.
• Experience administering Secret Server privileged access vaults including credential rotation, vault workflow troubleshooting, and integration with Azure workloads.
• 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.

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. Fill the skill matrix below: Skill Amount Candidate's No. of years of experience Required 3 Required 5 Server infrastructure, protocols, firewalls, certificates, load balancers Required 2 Support of VDOT / E-ZPass Virginia tolling applications, infrastructure, and cloud workloads Required 3 Required 2 Implementing Rubrik backup & recovery for Azure IaaS/PaaS Required 2 Scripting with PowerShell/Python Required 2 Continuous integration tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, TFS) 1 Administration of Secret Server privileged access vaults. Required 2 Office 365 and Power Apps platforms Required 1 Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent) 1 1 Experience with PCI or similar compliance frameworks Required 1 Key Vault, secrets and certificate management 1 Single Sign On and identity administration (Entra ID) Required 1 1 Experience with enterprise governance models Required 1 Experience analyzing cloud cost trends and delivering cost optimization recommendations 1 1 #J-18808-Ljbffr MBI