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Position:  Azure Cloud Engineer (Ref: 18770)

Location:  Mechanicsville, VA USA, 23116

Salary:  DOE

Duration:  8 Months 23 Days - Contract

Openings:  1

Deadline:  10/13/2026

Description:

***100% Remote

 

We are seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer to join an Engineering and Operations team supporting mission-critical public infrastructure and automated tolling applications. This role encompasses cloud systems engineering, application workload support, infrastructure automation, and rotational operational/help-desk support across Azure services, API Gateways, Azure Virtual Desktops (AVD), Application Insights, and Microsoft 365 environments.

 

Cloud Engineering & Operations:

  • Build, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure resources within a multi-tier Azure environment.
  • Enforce governance standards, naming conventions, tagging policies, and least-privilege Identity and Access Management (IAM) role assignments.
  • Ensure strict adherence to government security standards, network isolation controls, and cost-optimization baselines.
  • Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant cloud architecture patterns.
  • Manage third-party vendor patch updates, upgrades, and environment compatibility testing.

 

Monitoring, Diagnostics & Performance Tuning:

  • Proactively monitor cloud workloads, microservices, and system health using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.
  • Conduct root-cause diagnostic deep dives analyzing system logs, metrics, telemetry, and transaction traces.
  • Troubleshoot complex networking, API connectivity, privileged access, and performance bottlenecks across distributed systems.

 

Production & Incident Support:

  • Participate in operational cycles, daily health reviews, and recurring maintenance windows.
  • Support off-hours maintenance, deployments, and urgent incident triage as operational needs dictate.
  • Author standardized Change Requests (CRs), implementation plans, and rollback procedures.

 

Compliance & Integration:

  • Support end-to-end data flows involving sensor telemetry, transaction processing, and automated reporting pipelines.
  • Implement and maintain security controls aligned with regulatory and PCI compliance requirements.
  • Administer secrets, encryption keys, and SSL/TLS certificates via secure vault management systems.

 

Qualifications

  • Azure Experience: Minimum 3 years of hands-on engineering and administration experience across core Microsoft Azure cloud services.
  • Domain & Application Expertise: Minimum 3 years of direct experience supporting electronic tolling systems, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), or large-scale transaction/roadway sensor ingestion workloads.
  • Backup & Disaster Recovery: Demonstrated experience implementing and maintaining enterprise cloud backup solutions (such as Rubrik) for Azure IaaS/PaaS, including SLA policy design, snapshot lifecycle management, and DR validation.
  • Privileged Access Management (PAM): Hands-on experience administering enterprise credential vaults (such as Secret Server) for privileged access management, credential rotation, and Azure service integration.
  • Identity & Access Management: Strong background in Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), Single Sign-On (SSO) integration, and Microsoft 365 administration.
  • Virtualization & Workplaces: Practical experience deploying and managing Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environments.
  • Scripting & Automation: Proficiency in automation using PowerShell and/or Python.
  • Education & Communication: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience, paired with clear technical documentation and Active Microsoft Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect, or Security Engineer).
  • Familiarity with Power Apps and low-code workflow automations.

 

Special Requirements

  • Candidate must successfully pass a comprehensive state/federal fingerprint-based background check prior to onboarding.
  • Work Arrangement: 100% Remote
  • Position Type: Contract (Long-Term)
  • Interview Mode: Web Cam Interview Only

 

Required / Desired Skills

  • Microsoft Azure administration/engineering Required - 3 Years
  • Microsoft Windows environments (2019+) Required - 5 Years
  • Server infrastructure, protocols, firewalls, certificates, load balancers Required - 2 Years
  • Support of VDOT / E-ZPass Virginia tolling applications, infrastructure, and cloud workloads Required - 3 Years
  • Networking, server administration (Windows/Linux), databases, cloud environments Required - 2 Years
  • Implementing Rubrik backup & recovery for Azure IaaS/PaaS Required - 2 Years
  • Scripting with PowerShell/Python Required - 2 Years
  • Continuous integration tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, TFS) Required - 1 Years
  • Administration of SecretServer privileged access vaults. Required - 2 Years
  • Office 365 and Power Apps platforms Required - 1 Years
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent) Required - 1 Years
  • Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) Required - 1 Years
  • Experience with PCI or similar compliance frameworks Required - 1 Years
  • Key Vault, secrets and certificate management Required - 1 Years
  • Single Sign On and identity administration (Entra ID) Required - 1 Years
  • Azure certification (AZ 104, AZ 305, or similar) Required - 1 Years
  • Experience with enterprise governance models Required - 1 Years
  • Experience analyzing cloud cost trends and delivering cost optimization recommendations Required - 1 Years
  • Azure Virtual Desktops Required - 1 Years