Azure DevOps Cloud Engineer - hybrid Mechanicsville, VA

Core Responsibilities: DevOps & Cloud Engineering

CI/CD Engineering & Release Automation

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps (YAML and Classic) for microservices and APIs.
  

• Establish reusable pipeline templates, release standards, and guardrails for compliant, repeatable deployments.
  

• Implement secure secrets and key management using Azure Key Vault and managed identities in pipelines.
  

• Automate database deployment workflows (e.g., DACPAC/SQLCMD) and integrate migration steps into releases.
  

• Enable blue/green or automated rollback strategies to minimize downtime and risk.
  

Environment Consistency & Observability

• Standardize provisioning and configuration across Dev/QA/Prod environments; codify configuration baselines.
  

• Build monitoring dashboards and actionable alerts for pipeline and deployment health (App Insights, pipeline logs).
  

• Uphold DevOps best practices tailored to a compliant government environment.
  

Azure Resource Engineering & Governance

• Implement and maintain Azure services and governance standards (e.g., App Services, Function Apps, API Gateways/API Management, AKS) supporting Tolling workloads.
  

• Support identity and access management (e.g., Entra ID SSO and role assignments) following least-privilege principles.
  

• Ensure solutions are fault tolerant and highly available; coordinate change requests and rollback procedures.
  

Monitoring, Troubleshooting & Reliability

• Monitor Azure services and application workloads to ensure uptime and performance; perform diagnostic deep-dives with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.
  

• Triage production incidents, drive timely resolution, and document root cause findings; participate in operational cycles and maintenance readiness checks.
  

Compliance, Data Flows & Cost Awareness

• Consider PCI or comparable regulatory requirements when evaluating system behavior, logging, and integrations.
  

• Understand end-to-end data flows across tolling systems (e.g., roadway data, financial transactions, reporting) and support optimization of integrations.
  

• Contribute to cloud cost visibility and optimization recommendations; align operational choices with governance and budget goals.
  

Collaboration & Communication

• Partner with architects, developers, DBAs, and engineers to align deployments with secure network and identity configurations; communicate clearly with stakeholders.
  

Required Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD (YAML & Classic).
  

• Azure application deployment engineering (e.g., App Services, Functions, Containers, APIs).
  

• Secure secrets & key management (Azure Key Vault, RBAC, managed identities).
  

• SQL deployment automation integrated with CI/CD.
  

• Logging & observability (App Insights, pipeline logs, dashboards, alerts).
  

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates).
  

• Scripting & automation (PowerShell and/or Python).
  

• Experience with Azure administration/engineering in production environments.
  

Desired Qualifications

• Experience designing CI/CD standards or DevOps frameworks for microservices.
  

• Containerization & orchestration (Docker, AKS); registry-integrated build and release pipelines.
  

• Governance & compliance automation (Azure Policy, RBAC standards, pipeline guardrails).
  

• Experience with PCI or similar compliance frameworks.
  

• Exposure to cloud cost analysis and optimization in enterprise environments.
  

• Azure certifications (e.g., AZ‑104, AZ‑305, AZ-400) preferred.
  

Requirements