Job Listing Information

Azure Cloud Engineer
  • 06-Oct-2026 to 20-Oct-2026 (UTC)
  • Mechanicsville, VA, USA
  • Full Time
  • Long Term Contract Length
  • 40 Weekly Hours

Primary Responsibilities

- Cloud Operations and Engineering

- 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, 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.

- Azure certification (preferred).

 

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

Required/Desired

Amount

Candidate's No. of years of experience

Microsoft Azure administration/engineering

Required

3

 

Microsoft Windows environments (2019+)

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

 

Networking, server administration (Windows/Linux), databases, cloud environments

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)

Desired

1

 

Administration of Secret Server privileged access vaults.

Required

2

 

Office 365 and Power Apps platforms

Required

1

 

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent)

Desired

1

 

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Desired

1

 

Experience with PCI or similar compliance frameworks

Required

1

 

Key Vault, secrets and certificate management

Desired

1

 

Single Sign On and identity administration (Entra ID)

Required

1

 

Azure certification (AZ 104, AZ 305, or similar)

Desired

1

 

Experience with enterprise governance models

Required

1

 

Experience analyzing cloud cost trends and delivering cost optimization recommendations

Desired

1

 

Azure Virtual Desktops

Desired

1