Azure Cloud Architect Principal - Remote

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; New Orleans (LA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Cloud Computing Engineer Principal (MCCF-Healthcare Systems) for a 100% remote US-based role. The candidate will design and implement Azure cloud infrastructure, including security, monitoring, and governance, to support VA Enterprise Cloud environments.

You will lead CI/CD initiatives, manage multi-subscription Azure deployments, and mentor engineers while ensuring HIPAA, FedRAMP, NIST, GDPR, and PCI DSS compliance across projects.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Create data flow diagrams, cloud diagrams, transition diagrams, and high-level architecture diagrams on Cloud Infrastructure, applications, and systems

Skills

Azure architecture

CI/CD

DevOps mindset

Security compliance

Scripting

IaC

Azure security

Azure networking

Mentoring

Communication

Education

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

Advanced Azure certifications

Tools

Azure VM

Azure SQL

Azure Blob Storage

Azure Functions

Azure Monitor

Entra ID

ARM

AKS

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Cloud Computing Engineer Principal (MCCF-Healthcare Systems) for a 100% remote US-based role. The candidate will design and implement Azure cloud infrastructure, including security, monitoring, and governance, to support VA Enterprise Cloud environments.

You will lead CI/CD initiatives, manage multi-subscription Azure deployments, and mentor engineers while ensuring HIPAA, FedRAMP, NIST, GDPR, and PCI DSS compliance across projects.