Azure Cloud Architect, Principal – Remote

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Grand Rapids (MI); Remote; USD 110,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) seeks a Cloud Computing Engineer Principal for VA Healthcare Systems. This 100% remote, full-time role requires deep Azure expertise to design, deploy, and secure cloud solutions across VA Enterprise Cloud environments.

You will architect infrastructure, CI/CD automation, security controls, and governance for multi-subscription Azure setups, while mentoring engineers and coordinating with cross-functional teams. U.S.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing, deploying and managing Azure infrastructure and services.
• Experience with large-scale, high-availability cloud architectures.
• Strong knowledge of Azure services: VMs, Blob, SQL, VNet, Functions, Entra ID, ARM, Monitor, DNS.
• Experience with Azure security practices incl. RBAC, DDoS Protection, WAF.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling and DevOps practices.
• Proficiency in scripting for automation (Python, PowerShell, Bash).
• Experience with IaC tools (ARM templates, Ansible, GitOps).
• Monitoring and observability tooling across Azure and third-party solutions.
• Knowledge of HIPAA, FedRAMP, NIST, GDPR, PCI DSS frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Create data flow, cloud and transition diagrams for cloud infrastructure.
• Design, develop, and operate CI/CD automation technologies.
• Manage cloud permissions for each application and storage resource.
• Implement monitoring for cloud architecture and VAEC environments.
• Provide cloud support for VAEC Azure GovCloud deployments.
• Adopt a DevOps mindset with CI/CD tooling; mentor engineers.
• Develop cloud security provider documentation and governance.
• Design VAEC/cloud-hosted solutions addressing cloud-readiness gaps.

Skills

Azure cloud

Cloud architecture

DevOps

CI/CD

PowerShell/Python

IaC (ARM, Ansible)

Monitoring/Observability

Azure security

Scripting languages

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Cloud Engineering or related

Master’s degree in the same fields

Tools

Azure DevOps Pipelines

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) seeks a Cloud Computing Engineer Principal for VA Healthcare Systems. This 100% remote, full-time role requires deep Azure expertise to design, deploy, and secure cloud solutions across VA Enterprise Cloud environments.

You will architect infrastructure, CI/CD automation, security controls, and governance for multi-subscription Azure setups, while mentoring engineers and coordinating with cross-functional teams. U.S.