Azure Cloud Engineer – Contract Position

BranCore Technologies, LLC; Mechanicsville (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

BranCore Technologies, LLC is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer to join the Eng and Ops team for a tolling project in the Richmond, VA area. The role involves cloud operations, engineering, and rotational help-desk support within the Tolling group, including API Gateways, AVD, App Insights, and Office 365.

Responsibilities include maintaining Azure resources, ensuring policy compliance, documenting infrastructure, IAM assistance, and implementing fault-tolerant Azure solutions across the Tolling

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience with Microsoft Azure services.
• Minimum 3 years experience supporting state or federal Department of Transportation E-ZPass Virginia tolling infrastructure and cloud workloads.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with Windows environments.
• Experience with Office 365 services and SSO (Entra ID).
• Experience with Secret Server privileged access vaults.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Operations and Engineering across the Tolling Azure environment.
• Monitor and troubleshoot Azure services to ensure uptime and performance.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation, naming conventions, and tagging standards.
• Assist with IAM role assignments and least-privilege evaluations.
• Manage vendor updates and ensure compatibility of Azure workloads.
• Implement fault-tolerant and highly available Azure solutions.

Skills

Azure administration

Windows server management

Networking & security

Scripting with PowerShell/Python

Documentation & governance

PCI compliance

Entra ID / SSO

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS or equivalent

Tools

Rubrik backup & recovery

Office 365

Secret Server

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps/Jenkins/Git/TFS

PowerShell/Python

Entra ID

Job description

Contract Length: 8 months with the possibility of extending based on project need.
Candidate residing in Richmond, VA area is preferred.

Client’s ITD 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, & Office 365.

Primary Responsibilities

Cloud Operations and Engineering

• 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.
• 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 roll-back 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.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience with Microsoft Azure services.
• Minimum 3 years experience supporting state or federal Department of Transportation E-ZPass Virginia 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 (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 client’s technologies.

Required/Desired Skills

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