VDOT Sr. Azure Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Azure Infrastructure Engineer

VDOT is seeking a Senior Azure Infrastructure Engineer to implement, configure, manage, and provide guidance on cloud infrastructure in VDOT's Azure environment. We are looking for someone who is truly passionate about implementing and maintaining a secure and stable Azure environment- someone who likes taking on challenges and seeing them through to the end, is comfortable working with/guiding others, and comfortable with providing guidance to management and upper leadership.

Requirements:

• Experience providing guidance on the implementation of resources, networking, and security policy in Azure, and experience implementing, maintaining, and monitoring those resources.
• Experience with working in mission-critical enterprise environments, including overseeing backup & disaster recovery operations
• Experience planning & executing cloud migrations, and moving workloads from on-premises to the cloud.
• Comfortable working in an environment that utilizes multiple frameworks/technologies, including .NET, Java, SQL, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, and more.
• Experience providing support and troubleshooting issues for production applications.
• Experience working with security tools such as Tenable to manage vulnerability remediation, etc.
• Experience with tools like Azure Monitor, Workbooks, and Alerts - to create meaningful monitoring dashboards & alerting for critical observability for the ops team
• Experience crafting disaster recovery (DR) plans to ensure minimal downtime and prevent data loss.
• Strong networking knowledge - including understanding OSI layer functionality and network protocols.

Nice-to-haves:

• Microsoft-focused certifications, such as: Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect, etc.
• Networking-focused certifications, such as: Network+, CCNA, etc.

Required/Desired Skills:

• Experience implementing, maintaining, monitoring, and providing guidance on resources & infrastructure in Microsoft Azure - Required - 8 Years
• Experience planning and executing migrations from on-premises environments to Azure - Required - 8 Years
• Experience working in mission-critical enterprise environments and implementing backup & DR strategies - Required - 8 Years
• Experience implementing networking and security policies in Azure - Required - 8 Years
• Experience using Azure Monitor for alerting, observability, and dashboards - Required - 8 Years
• Experience with vulnerability remediation & working on security initiatives - Required - 8 Years