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Azure Cloud Engineer
Crescens Inc.
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Remote
- 1 day ago
- Azure Cloud
- Azure
- IAM
- Azure Monitor
- triage
- Regulatory Compliance
- Windows
- Vault
- PowerShell
- Python
- Power Apps
- Microsoft Windows
- Linux
- CI/CD
- Azure DevOps
- Jenkins
- Git
- TFS
- IaC
- Terraform
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Key Vault
1 day ago
Location: Mechanicsville, VA (Remote)
Duration: 8+ Months
Key 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.
- 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 roll-back procedures.
- 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.
- 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.
- Minimum 3 years of experience with Microsoft Azure services.
- Minimum 3 years experience supporting VDOT /E-Z Pass 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 forAzure IaaS/PaaS, including policy sets, snapshot lifecycle tuning, and DRvalidation.
- 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). VITA https://vms.pixidpro.com/Print/PrintReq.aspx?printID=8121683 of 5 10/6/2026, 8:34 AM
- 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).
Minimum 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 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
Azure Cloud Engineer · Crescens Inc.