Azure Cloud Architect — Remote, High-Impact Solutions

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

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Solutions Architect for a 100% remote role supporting Veterans Affairs. The candidate will design secure, scalable Azure cloud architectures, lead proposal development, and collaborate across BD, proposal, and engineering teams to deliver cost-effective, high-availability solutions.

Required 10+ years in software testing/QA or validation, strong Azure product expertise, and experience with security, IAM, networking, and DevOps tooling.

Qualifications

• 10+ years software testing, quality assurance, or system validation experience.

Responsibilities

• Leverage domain expertise to understand customer requirements.
• Lead the development of a complete solution meeting all requirements and pricing.
• Collaborate with BD, capture, proposal teams to optimize proposed solutions.
• Identify technical staffing needs to support Pre-Bid and Proposal activities.
• Coordinate assignment of technical personnel to proposal efforts.
• Coordinate with technical leaders on solution development and estimating.
• Provide SME to meet customer technical, schedule, and cost requirements within risk parameters.
• Design, implement, and govern secure, scalable Azure cloud architectures aligned with standards.
• Contribute to development of new concepts, techniques, and standards.
• Receive assignments as objectives and set goals to meet them.
• Provide guidance to team members to meet policies.
• Develop solutions to complex problems using ingenuity and innovation.
• Ensure solutions align with organizational objectives.
• Determine technical objectives of assignment.

Skills

Azure architecture

Azure security

Azure networking

Automation scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring & logging

Cloud governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Azure Pipelines

Kubernetes

Azure Key Vault

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Solutions Architect for a 100% remote role supporting Veterans Affairs. The candidate will design secure, scalable Azure cloud architectures, lead proposal development, and collaborate across BD, proposal, and engineering teams to deliver cost-effective, high-availability solutions.

Required 10+ years in software testing/QA or validation, strong Azure product expertise, and experience with security, IAM, networking, and DevOps tooling.