Azure Cloud Engineer – Cloud Ops & Security (Remote/VA)

Astyra Corporation; Mechanicsville (VA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Astyra Corporation 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, managing Azure resources such as API Gateways, AVD, App Insights, and Office 365.

The position requires minimum 3 years of Azure experience, Windows environment familiarity, and strong scripting with PowerShell or Python; Office 365 and Entra ID experience is essential.

Qualifications

• Azure experience: minimum 3 years with Microsoft Azure services.
• 3+ years supporting tolling apps, infrastructure and cloud workloads with diagnostics.
• Bachelor's degree in CS, information systems, or equivalent.
• Clear communication of requirements and design concepts.
• Experience in Windows environments.
• Rubrik backup/recovery for Azure IaaS/PaaS including policy/SNAPSHOT/DR.
• Experience with Office 365 services and administering Entra ID (SSO).
• Administer Secret Server privileged access vaults and integrations with Azure.
• Scripting skills in PowerShell and Python.
• Ability to create network/system topology documentation.
• Experience with Azure Virtual Desktops.
• Office 365 and Power Apps experience.
• Azure certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and implement cloud resources in Azure.
• Ensure compliance with government security, IAM, and cost controls.
• Improve infrastructure docs, naming, tagging, and governance artifacts.
• Assist with access reviews and least-privilege IAM.
• Manage vendor updates and compatibility.
• Implement fault-tolerant and highly available Azure solutions.
• Monitor services and workloads to ensure uptime.
• Troubleshoot connectivity, security, and performance issues.
• Perform diagnostics with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.
• Participate in daily/weekly operations, incident reviews, and maintenance readiness.
• Document root cause findings and support off-hours work.
• Define change requests and rollback procedures.
• Understand data flows across tolling systems and optimize data movement.
• Ensure PCI or regulatory compliance in logging patterns.

Skills

Azure administration

Windows environments

Networking

PowerShell

Python

Office 365

Power Apps

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

PCI compliance

Secret Server

Entra ID

Azure Virtual Desktops

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or equivalent

Tools

Rubrik backup

Office 365

Entra ID

Secret Server

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Azure Virtual Desktops

Job description

Astyra Corporation 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, managing Azure resources such as API Gateways, AVD, App Insights, and Office 365.

The position requires minimum 3 years of Azure experience, Windows environment familiarity, and strong scripting with PowerShell or Python; Office 365 and Entra ID experience is essential.