Azure Cloud Engineer at Texas Department of Transportation
Austin, TX
$104,000–$131,040
Jul 26, 2026
Austin, TX
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This hybrid role supports the Texas Department of Transportation in modernizing its Microsoft Azure cloud environment, with a focus on migrating workloads into a standardized Azure Cloud Landing Zone. Day-to-day work spans infrastructure-as-code authoring, monitoring and alerting configuration, incident response, and security/compliance remediation across Azure compute, networking, storage, identity, and security services. The position requires coordination with state agency and shared-services teams and is limited to candidates within 50 miles of Austin, TX.
Mid level · 4+ years · Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 160 people in the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 45–240
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
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What the occupation pays Median $137,069 (middle half $106,287–$172,440).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
SOC classification is a close call: the role writes and ships Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, Bicep) and builds/maintains cloud environments, which points to 15-1252 Software Developers; however, a significant portion of the work is operational — monitoring, incident response, and compliance — which could support 15-1244. The IaC authoring and Landing Zone build-out work tipped the classification to 15-1252.
The 4-7 year experience range is stated consistently across all requirement bullets; 4 years is used as the overall years minimum (the minimum of the range).
Terraform, ARM templates, and Bicep are listed together as interchangeable IaC options ('e.g., ARM templates, Bicep, Terraform'); they are captured as a single requirement with alternatives, but also individually since all three are named tools.
Azure Government experience is listed as a hard requirement in the minimum qualifications but also appears as a preferred qualification for direct state/federal workload experience — the minimum-qualifications mention is treated as the gate.
Hybrid cloud integration with on-premises systems and Azure certifications appear only under Preferred Qualifications.
No compensation is stated in the posting.
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