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Azure Cloud Engineer |
Yakshna Solutions, Inc., (YSI) is a CMMI Level 3 assessed, ISO 9001, 20000:1, 27001 certified, woman-owned small business enterprises, headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, USA. YSI provides professional IT solutions and services to business corporations and government organizations. YSI is committed to serve its business communities as a leading IT vendor providing innovative, quality, and cost-effective IT business solutions and services.
We offer a competitive benefits package that includes the following: 401(k), health, dental, and vision insurance, Life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, paid time off, training, and professional development assistance.
YSI is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer to support the Engineer and Operations team. The role includes engineering, application support, and rotational help‑desk support within the Tolling group. Includes API Gateways, AVD, App Insights, & Office 365.
Key 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.
- Management requires updates and ensures 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.
- 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.
Required Skills & Experience
- 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 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).
Location: 9120 Lockwood Blvd, Mechanicsville, VA 23116 (Remote)
Salary $100,000-110,000 annually with benefits
U.S Citizen or Green card holder only
YSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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