A Azure Cloud Engineer AIS (Applied Information Sciences) Washington, Dc, US

Artha; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Astyra is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer to join the Eng and Ops team. The role focuses on cloud operations, engineering, and tolling application support in an Azure environment. Responsibilities include monitoring, security, governance, and data flows across tolling systems.

Candidates should have 3+ years of Azure experience, Windows server expertise, and proficiency with PowerShell/Python. The role may involve off-hours work and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience with Microsoft Azure services.
• Hands-on diagnostic work with transaction flows and tolling data.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience with Windows server environments.
• Experience administering Office 365 services and Entra ID.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and implement cloud resources in the Azure environment.
• Ensure compliance with security, IAM, network controls, and cost governance.
• Monitor services, troubleshoot connectivity, security, and performance issues.
• Define change requests, implementation plans, and rollback procedures.
• Collaborate with architects and engineers to optimise Azure usage.

Skills

Azure administration

PowerShell

Python

Azure DevOps

CI/CD tooling

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Secret management

Entra ID

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Jenkins

Git

TFS

Rubrik backup & recovery

Office 365

Power Apps

Azure Virtual Desktops

Terraform or equivalent

Azure Monitor / Log Analytics

Job description

Azure Cloud Engineer

*Remote – Local to Richmond, VA only, please

Tolling is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer to join the Eng and Ops team. The role includes engineering application support and rotational help desk support within the Tolling group. Includes API Gateways, AVD, App Insights, and Office 365.

Responsibilities - Cloud Operations and Engineering

• Maintain and implement cloud resources in the Azure environment.
• Ensure compliance with applicable 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 rollback 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.

Qualification

• Minimum 3 years of experience with Microsoft Azure services.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience supporting tolling applications, infrastructure, and cloud workloads, including hands‑on diagnostic work with transaction flows, roadway sensor data ingestion, and tolling application performance tuning.
• 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.
• Implementing Rubrik backup recovery for Azure IaaS/PaaS, including policy sets, snapshot lifecycle tuning, and DR validation.
• Experience with Office 365 services and administering Single Sign‑On (SSO), including Entra ID.
• Experience administering Secret Server privileged access vaults, including credential rotation, vault workflow troubleshooting, and integration with Azure workloads.
• Solid scripting experience with 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 relevant technologies.

Required Skills/Knowledge/Experience:

• 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 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), Desired 1 Year
• Administration of Secret Server privileged access vaults, Required 2 Years
• Office 365 and Power Apps platforms, Required 1 Year
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent), Desired 1 Year
• Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), Desired 1 Year
• Experience with PCI or similar compliance frameworks, Required 1 Year
• Key Vault, secrets and certificate management, Desired 1 Year
• Single Sign‑On and identity administration (Entra ID), Required 1 Year
• Azure certification (AZ‑104, AZ‑305, or similar), Desired 1 Year
• Experience with enterprise governance models, Required 1 Year
• Experience analyzing cloud cost trends and delivering cost optimization recommendations, Desired 1 Year
• Azure Virtual Desktops, Desired 1 Year

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