Remote Azure DevOps Cloud Engineer – CI/CD & IaC

Stellar Professionals; Virginia; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellar Professionals partners with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) to deliver the Tolling Modernization program. We are seeking an Azure DevOps Cloud Engineer to design, build, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, enforce IaC, and optimize cloud operations across microservices and APIs.

This contract role is fully remote, based in Mechanicsville, VA, with EST shift and fingerprint background check.

Qualifications

• 4+ years Azure DevOps CI/CD experience building YAML/Classic pipelines.
• 3+ years configuring Azure App Services, Functions, APIs, and Containers.
• 3+ years managing Azure Key Vault, RBAC, and Managed Identities.
• 3+ years standardizing Dev/QA/Prod configurations and release baselines.
• 3+ years implementing Application Insights, logs, dashboards and alerts.
• 2+ years IaC with Terraform/Bicep/ARM templates.
• 1+ year SQL deployment automation in CI/CD pipelines.
• 1+ year Entra ID/Azure AD least-privilege IAM controls.
• 1+ year PCI-DSS or similar regulatory compliance experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for microservices and APIs.
• Automate database deployments (DACPAC/SQLCMD) in release workflows.
• Manage credentials with Azure Key Vault and enforce least-privilege IAM.
• Standardize IaC provisioning across Dev/QA/Prod using Terraform/Bicep/ARM.
• Create observability dashboards and alerting with Application Insights and Azure Monitor.
• Deploy and support Azure App Services, Functions, API Management, AKS/Docker.
• Ensure PCI-DSS compliance and participate in cloud cost analysis.

Skills

Azure DevOps CI/CD

Azure App Services

Secrets & Key Management

IaC & Provisioning

Observability & Monitoring

SQL Deployment Automation

Identity & Access Management

PCI-DSS Compliance

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Docker

AKS

Azure Key Vault

Job description

Stellar Professionals partners with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) to deliver the Tolling Modernization program. We are seeking an Azure DevOps Cloud Engineer to design, build, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, enforce IaC, and optimize cloud operations across microservices and APIs.

This contract role is fully remote, based in Mechanicsville, VA, with EST shift and fingerprint background check.