New State of VA-VDOT Tolling Azure Cloud Engineer-Mechanicsville, VA hourly rate: 57/hr

The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer for its Tolling Engineering and Operations Team. The role implements, maintains, and supports Azure resources and applications, provides operational and help-desk support, and collaborates with technical teams to ensure secure, efficient cloud services.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Implement fault‑tolerant and highly available Azure solutions
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Requirements:

• Only USC, GC or H4 EAD
• Experience with Department of Transportation (Any States will work)
• 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
• Microsoft Windows environments (2019+) Required 2 Years
• Server infrastructure, protocols, firewalls, certificates, load balancers Required 2 Years
• Microsoft Azure administration/engineering Required 3 Years
• Networking, server administration (Windows/Linux), databases, cloud environments Required 2 Years
• Scripting with PowerShell/Python Required 2 Years
• Office 365 and Power Apps platforms Required 1 Years
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent) Required 1 Years
• Experience with PCI or similar compliance frameworks Required 1 Years
• Single Sign-On and identity administration (Entra ID) Required 1 Years
• If candidate is experienced with Tolling is A+
• Azure certification (preferred)
• Continuous integration tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, TFS) Desired 1 Years
• Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) Desired 1 Years
• Key Vault, secrets and certificate management Desired 1 Years
• Azure certification (AZ-104, AZ-305, or similar) Desired 1 Years
• Experience with enterprise governance models Desired 1 Years
• Experience analyzing cloud cost trends and delivering cost-optimization recommendations Desired 1 Years
• Azure Virtual Desktops Desired 1 Years