Azure Cloud Engineer

About the role

Seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer with proven experience with Azure operations, monitoring, troubleshooting, IAM/Entra ID, Key Vault, AVD, Office 365, and Rubrik backup/recovery, along with PowerShell or Python scripting. The candidate should understand tolling transaction flows, roadway data ingestion, application performance, and PCI/compliance requirements. Strong communication, documentation, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills are essential for supporting complex production environments.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Understand end-to-end data flows across tolling systems, roadways data, financial transactions, and reporting tools.
• Support optimization