Azure Certification Cloud Engineer - Remote
Azure Cloud Operations & Engineering Design, implement, maintain, and support Microsoft Azure cloud resources. Ensure compliance with Virginia security, IAM, networking, and cloud cost-governance policies. Maintain cloud documentation, naming conventions, tagging standards, and governance artifacts. Manage access reviews, role assignments, and least-privilege IAM. Implement highly available and fault-tolerant Azure solutions. Manage vendor-required updates and compatibility. Monitoring & Troubleshooting Monitor Azure services and application workloads for uptime and availability. Troubleshoot connectivity, access, security, application performance, and service issues. Perform diagnostics using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, logs, metrics, and traces. Analyze and tune cloud/system/application performance. Operational Support Participate in operational monitoring, incident reviews, maintenance readiness, and production support. Troubleshoot production issues and document root-cause analysis. Create change requests, implementation plans, and rollback procedures. Support off-hours activities when required. Security, Data & Compliance Understand end-to-end data flows across tolling systems, roadway data, financial transactions, and reporting platforms. Support application integrations and data movement optimization. Manage Key Vaults, secrets, passwords, certificates, and secure credential storage. Apply PCI and other regulatory compliance requirements. Collaboration Work with architects, engineers, managers, vendors, and cross-functional teams. Provide guidance on SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS solutions. Support multiple concurrent technical projects and communicate effectively with stakeholders. Required Skills & Experience 3+ years Microsoft Azure administration/engineering 5+ years Windows Server environments (2019+) 3+ years VDOT / E-ZPass Virginia tolling applications, infrastructure, and cloud workloads 2+ years server infrastructure, protocols, firewalls, certificates, and load balancers 2+ years networking, Windows/Linux server administration, databases, and cloud environments 2+ years implementing Rubrik backup & recovery for Azure IaaS/PaaS 2+ years PowerShell and/or Python scripting 2+ years administering SecretServer privileged access vaults 1+ year Office 365 and Power Apps 1+ year Entra ID / Single Sign-On / identity administration 1+ year PCI or similar compliance frameworks 1+ year enterprise cloud governance Experience with Azure Virtual Desktops (AVD) Preferred / Desired Skills Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, or TFS Terraform / Infrastructure as Code Docker / Kubernetes Azure Key Vault and certificate management Cloud cost analysis and optimization Azure Virtual Desktop Azure certification AZ-104, AZ-305, or similar Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.