Job Listing Information
- 09-Oct-2026 to 23-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 behavior 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.
- 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.
- Experience with Office 365 services and administering Single Sign?On (SSO) including Entra ID.
- 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 Windows environments (2019+) |
Required |
2 |
|
|
Server infrastructure, protocols, firewalls, certificates, load balancers |
Required |
2 |
|
|
Microsoft Azure administration/engineering |
Required |
3 |
|
|
Networking, server administration (Windows/Linux), databases, cloud environments |
Required |
2 |
|
|
Scripting with PowerShell/Python |
Required |
2 |
|
|
Continuous integration tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, TFS) |
Desired |
1 |
|
|
Office 365 and Power Apps platforms |
Required |
1 |
|
|
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent) |
Required |
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 |
Desired |
1 |
|
|
Experience analyzing cloud cost trends and delivering cost-optimization recommendations |
Desired |
1 |
|
|
Azure Virtual Desktops |
Desired |
1 |
|