Azure Cloud Engineer

Job summary

Maintain and improve Azure infrastructure supporting tolling systems, ensuring availability, security, identity and access management, cost governance, and compliance with Virginia government policies and PCI requirements. Monitor and troubleshoot workloads using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics; manage integrations, operational changes, Entra ID, Key Vault, and certificates; and document infrastructure standards and incident findings. The role also uses PowerShell or Python scripting and infrastructure-as-code tools while supporting cross-functional technical teams.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of Microsoft Azure services experience.
• At least 2 years of experience with Windows Server 2019 or later, server infrastructure, networking, and server administration.
• At least 2 years of PowerShell or Python scripting experience.
• Experience with Office 365, Power Apps, Azure Virtual Desktop, and SSO or Entra ID administration.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform, and PCI or similar compliance frameworks.
• Ability to create network and system topology documentation.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and implement Azure cloud resources.
• Ensure compliance with Virginia government security, IAM, network-control, and cost-governance policies.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation, naming conventions, tagging standards, and governance artifacts.
• Conduct access reviews, role assignments, and least-privilege evaluations.
• Monitor Azure services and workloads; diagnose connectivity, access, security, performance, and availability issues.
• Use logs, metrics, traces, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics to investigate issues and tune performance.
• Triage production incidents, document root causes, and support operational reviews and maintenance readiness.
• Develop change requests, implementation plans, and rollback procedures.
• Support tolling-system data flows, integrations, and data movement, applying PCI and other regulatory requirements.
• Manage key vaults, passwords, certificates, and secure credential storage.
• Guide teams on SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS best practices and support concurrent technical projects.

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