Azure Cloud Engineer Principal - Remote

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

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC (SSG) seeks a Cloud Computing Engineer Principal to lead Azure cloud design, deployment, and governance for VA healthcare systems. Remote work is offered with a focus on secure, compliant cloud architectures.

You will drive CI/CD automation, manage cloud permissions, and supervise cloud readiness across multiple VAEC environments, ensuring HIPAA, FedRAMP, NIST, GDPR, and PCI DSS alignment.

Qualifications

• Proven Azure design, deployment and management across large-scale, HA cloud environments.
• Experience with Azure core services, security, governance, and cost management.
• Strong scripting and IaC skills for automation and cloud ops.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and monitoring.
• Healthcare/compliance familiarity (HIPAA, FedRAMP, NIST, GDPR, PCI DSS) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Create data and cloud diagrams, and high-level architectures for cloud infra and services.
• Design, develop, deploy, and operate automation for CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage permissions for cloud apps, storage, and services in the cloud provider.
• Implement monitoring and ensure compliance with VA/Federal policies.
• Support VA Enterprise Cloud environments, including VIP development and documentation.
• Adopt DevOps mindset with CI/CD tooling and governance.
• Prepare cloud security provider documentation and design readouts.
• Design VAEC/cloud-hosted solutions and address cloud-readiness gaps.

Skills

Azure VM

Azure Storage

Azure SQL

Azure VNet

Azure Functions

Entra ID

ARM Templates

Azure Monitor

Azure DNS

Azure Security

RBAC

DDoS Protection

WAF

VNet Peering

ExpressRoute

VPN Gateway

Private Endpoints

Load Balancer

Governance

FinOps

Python

PowerShell

Bash

JavaScript

Python/Automation

IaC

ARM Templates

Ansible

GitOps

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Docker

AKS

Kubernetes

Mentoring

Leadership

On-call

Education

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

Tools

Edifecs

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC (SSG) seeks a Cloud Computing Engineer Principal to lead Azure cloud design, deployment, and governance for VA healthcare systems. Remote work is offered with a focus on secure, compliant cloud architectures.

You will drive CI/CD automation, manage cloud permissions, and supervise cloud readiness across multiple VAEC environments, ensuring HIPAA, FedRAMP, NIST, GDPR, and PCI DSS alignment.