Principal Azure Cloud Engineer - Health Systems (Remote)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) seeks a Cloud Computing Engineer Principal to lead Azure cloud architecture, security, and DevOps for VA healthcare systems. Remote, full-time role requiring strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration. Extensive experience with Azure services, security controls, and compliance standards is essential.

Responsibilities include designing data flows, CI/CD automation, cloud governance, and stakeholder-facing documentation. Candidates must be U.S.

Qualifications

• Proven Azure design, deployment and management of large scale infra.
• Experience with high availability, scalable cloud architectures.
• Deep Azure services knowledge (VMs, Blob, SQL DB, VNet, Functions, Entra ID, ARM, Monitor, DNS).
• Solid Azure security practices incl Entra ID, RBAC, DDoS, WAF.
• Proficient in Azure networking (VNet Peering, ExpressRoute, VPN, Private Endpoints, Load Balancer).
• IaC with ARM, Ansible; GitOps and automation tooling.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and DevOps culture.
• Monitoring and observability with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights; Prometheus/Grafana a plus.
• Knowledge of HIPAA, FedRAMP, NIST, GDPR, PCI DSS compliance.
• Encryption, key management, secrets management, and identity solutions (Key Vault).
• Azure database services and performance tuning, HA/DR strategies.
• Containerization with Docker, AKS, Azure Container Apps; Kubernetes.
• Strong leadership, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Create data flow and cloud architecture diagrams for Azure infra and systems.
• Design, develop, deploy, and operate CI/CD automation technologies.
• Manage cloud permissions for apps, storage, and services in Azure.
• Implement and design monitoring for cloud resources to meet VA policies.
• Provide customer-focused support for VA Enterprise Cloud environments.
• Deliver Cloud support for VAEC Azure GovCloud environments per VIP docs.
• Adopt DevOps mindset with CI/CD practices and tooling.
• Provide Cloud security provider documentation.
• Design VAEC/cloud-hosted solutions and address cloud-readiness gaps.

Skills

Azure infra design

High availability

Azure services

Cloud security

Azure networking

IaC tooling

CI/CD practices

Monitoring & logging

HIPAA/FedRAMP/GDPR

Encryption & key mgmt

Azure DB services

Containerization

Leadership & mentoring

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Systems Engineering / Cloud Engineering

Tools

Azure DevOps

ARM Templates

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Azure Monitor

Azure Security Center

AKS / Kubernetes

Azure Resource Manager (ARM)

PowerShell / Python / Bash

Azure Key Vault

Azure SQL / Cosmos DB / MySQL / PostgreSQL

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) seeks a Cloud Computing Engineer Principal to lead Azure cloud architecture, security, and DevOps for VA healthcare systems. Remote, full-time role requiring strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration. Extensive experience with Azure services, security controls, and compliance standards is essential.

Responsibilities include designing data flows, CI/CD automation, cloud governance, and stakeholder-facing documentation. Candidates must be U.S.