VDOT Azure Cloud Engineer - remote

Zohorecruit; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Zohorecruit is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer in Richmond, VA, to join the Eng and Ops team. The role covers engineering, application support, and rotational help-desk duties within the Tolling group, including API Gateways, AVD, App Insights, and Office 365.

Responsibilities include cloud resource implementation, security and IAM, governance artifacts, and ongoing troubleshooting across Azure services. A fingerprint-based background check is required.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Microsoft Azure services (administration/engineering)
• 3+ years supporting VDOT/E-ZPass tolling tech and cloud workloads
• Experience in Windows environments
• Experience with Office 365 services and Entra ID
• Scripting with PowerShell and/or Python
• Knowledge of PCI or similar compliance frameworks

Responsibilities

• Maintain and implement cloud resources in the Tolling Azure environment
• Ensure security, IAM, network controls, and cost governance compliance
• Maintain and improve infrastructure documentation and cloud governance artifacts
• Assist with access reviews, role assignments, and IAM evaluations
• Manage vendor updates and ensure compatibility
• Implement fault-tolerant and highly available Azure solutions

Skills

Cloud engineering

Troubleshooting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS

Tools

Azure

Office 365

Entra ID

Rubrik

SecretServer

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Job description

Richmond, United States

• Actual Job Title 812168 - VDOT Azure Cloud Engineer
• Job Type FT Contract
• Country United States
• Number of Positions 1

Job Description

VDOT 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 theTolling Azure environment.
• Ensure compliance with Virginia governmentpolicies regarding security, IAM, network controls, and cost governance.
• Maintain and improve infrastructuredocumentation, naming conventions, tagging standards, and cloud governanceartifacts.
• Assist with access reviews, role assignments,and least-privacy IAM evaluations.
• Manage vendor-required updates and ensurecompatibility.
• 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 timelyresolution, and document root-cause findings.
• Execute and support off-hours work as needed.
• Define change requests, detailed implementationplans, and roll-back procedures.

Technical Development and Compliance

• Understand end-to-end data flows across tollingsystems, roadways data, financial transactions, and reporting tools.
• Support optimization of integrations and datamovement.
• Apply PCI or other regulatory compliancerequirements when evaluating system behavior and logging patterns.
• Manage key vaults, passwords, certificates, andsecure 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 formwith internal and external stakeholders.
• Support multiple concurrent projects of complextechnical scope.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience with MicrosoftAzure services.
• Minimum 3 years experience supporting VDOT /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 requirementsand design concepts clearly.
• Experience working in Windows environments.
• Implementing Rubrik backup & recovery for Azure IaaS/PaaS, including policy sets, snapshot lifecycle tuning, and DRvalidation.
• Experience with Office 365 services andadministering Single Sign-On (SSO) including Entra ID.
• Experience administering SecretServer privileged access vaults including credential rotation, vault workflow troubleshooting, and integration with Azure workloads.
• Solid scripting experience (PowerShell and/orPython).
• Ability to create network and system topologydocumentation.
• Experience with Azure Virtual Desktops.
• Office 365 services and Power Apps.

Special Instructions

• Position requires a fingerprint-based backgroundcheck.
• Continued education is expected at the contractor’s own expense to stay current with VDOT technologies.

Requirements

• 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 YearsSingle 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