Remote Cloud Architect Principal — Azure & DevOps Lead

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Potomac (MD); Remote; USD 110,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Cloud Computing Engineer Principal to design, implement, and operate Azure-based cloud environments for VA workflows. You will develop automation for CI/CD, manage cloud permissions, and ensure security and compliance across multi-subscription setups.

Strong governance and communication skills are essential. The role emphasizes DevOps practices, monitoring, encryption, and cloud-readiness improvements, with on-call duties as needed and a remote W-2 work

Qualifications

• Design, deploy and manage Azure infrastructure and services.
• Demonstrated ability to run scalable cloud architectures.
• Experience with Azure security practices and RBAC.
• Familiarity with HIPAA, FedRAMP, NIST, GDPR, PCI DSS compliance.
• Proficiency in scripting for automation.

Responsibilities

• Create diagrams for cloud infrastructure and data flows.
• Develop, deploy and operate CI/CD automation.
• Manage permissions for cloud applications and storage.
• Implement monitoring and ensure VA policies compliance.
• Provide cloud support for VA Enterprise Cloud environments.

Skills

Azure cloud architecture

High availability

Azure security practices

CI/CD practices

IaC (ARM, Ansible, GitOps)

Scripting (Python/PowerShell/Bash/JS)

Monitoring and observability

Cost management and FinOps

Cloud governance (Management Groups, L

DevOps mindset

Security compliance (HIPAA, FedRAMP, N

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems engineering, cloud engineering or related

Tools

Azure DevOps Pipelines

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Azure Resource Manager templates

Azure Monitor

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Cloud Computing Engineer Principal to design, implement, and operate Azure-based cloud environments for VA workflows. You will develop automation for CI/CD, manage cloud permissions, and ensure security and compliance across multi-subscription setups.

Strong governance and communication skills are essential. The role emphasizes DevOps practices, monitoring, encryption, and cloud-readiness improvements, with on-call duties as needed and a remote W-2 work