Principal Azure Cloud Engineer — Remote DevOps Leader

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

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) seeks a Cloud Computing Engineer Principal to lead Azure cloud design, secure deployments, and DevOps modernization for VA enterprise cloud environments. This remote role requires deep expertise in Azure services, governance, and FinOps, with a focus on HIPAA/FedRAMP/NIST/GDPR/PCI DSS compliance.

The position emphasizes architecture leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and on-call responsiveness, while mentoring junior engineers and driving multi-subscription

Qualifications

• Proven track record designing, deploying, and managing Azure infrastructure and services
• Experience with large-scale, high-availability cloud architecture
• Experience with core Azure services: VMs, Blob Storage, SQL DB, VNet, Functions, Entra ID, ARM, Monitor, DNS
• Experience with Azure security: Entra ID, RBAC, DDoS Protection, WAF
• Proficiency with Azure networking: VNet Peering, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, Private Endpoints, Load Balancer
• Ability to design and manage scalable, secure Azure infrastructures
• Experience governing multi-subscription environments using Management Groups, Policy, Landing Zones
• Knowledge of cloud cost management and FinOps
• Scripting: Python, PowerShell, Bash, NodeJS
• IaC tools: ARM Templates, Ansible, GitOps
• Monitoring/logging: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Activity Log, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic
• Experience optimizing performance, availability, resiliency
• Understanding of HIPAA, FedRAMP, NIST, GDPR, PCI DSS
• Encryption and key management with Azure Key Vault
• Azure databases: SQL DB, SQL Managed, Cosmos, PostgreSQL, MySQL
• DB performance tuning, backup/recovery, HA, DR
• CI/CD tools: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI
• Containerization: Docker, AKS, Azure Container Apps, Kubernetes
• Analytical/problem solving, ability to explain concepts
• Prioritizing/multitasking and deadlines
• Detail-oriented for stability/security/data integrity
• Mentor engineers and contribute to governance
• Lead cloud modernization and migration with cross-functional teams
• Willing to be on call for operations
• Documentation for architecture/procedures
• Manage multiple projects with quality
• Stay current with Azure tech and best practices
• Explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• On-call willingness
• Documentation of configs, processes
• Multi-project leadership and timely completion
• Stay current with cloud trends

Responsibilities

• Create data flow diagrams, cloud diagrams, and high-level architecture diagrams for cloud infra, apps and systems
• Design, develop, deploy, and operate automation for CI/CD
• Manage cloud permissions for each app, storage and service
• Implement and design monitoring for cloud architecture and VAEC environments
• Provide customer-focused support for VA Enterprise Cloud environments
• Support VAEC Azure GovCloud deployments ensuring VIP development/release/docs
• Adopt a DevOps mindset with CI/CD tooling
• Provide Cloud Security Provider Documentation
• Design VAEC/cloud-hosted solutions and address cloud-readiness gaps

Skills

Azure architecture

CI/CD

IaC

Scripting: Python

Security compliance

Cost management

DevOps mindset

Documentation

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

ARM Templates

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes (AKS)

Azure Monitor

Prometheus

Grafana

New Relic

Azure Resource Manager (ARM)

Azure Key Vault

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) seeks a Cloud Computing Engineer Principal to lead Azure cloud design, secure deployments, and DevOps modernization for VA enterprise cloud environments. This remote role requires deep expertise in Azure services, governance, and FinOps, with a focus on HIPAA/FedRAMP/NIST/GDPR/PCI DSS compliance.

The position emphasizes architecture leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and on-call responsiveness, while mentoring junior engineers and driving multi-subscription