Remote Principal Cloud Engineer - Azure Infra & DevOps

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

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC (SSG) is seeking a Cloud Computing Engineer Principal to lead Azure cloud design, security, and automation for VA Enterprise Cloud projects. Remote work within U.S. federal guidelines; strong DevOps and governance expertise essential.

Requirements include deep Azure experience, IaC, scripting, monitoring, and cross‑functional collaboration to deliver compliant, scalable cloud solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, deploying, and managing Azure infrastructure and services.
• Experience with large-scale, HA, scalable cloud architecture.
• Knowledge of HIPAA, FedRAMP, NIST, GDPR, PCI DSS security requirements.

Responsibilities

• Create data/architecture diagrams for Cloud Infrastructure and systems.
• Design, develop, deploy and operate CI/CD automation.
• Manage permissions for cloud resources and services.
• Implement monitoring for cloud-hosted systems to ensure performance and compliance.
• Provide Cloud support for VAEC environments and VIP development pipelines.
• Adopt DevOps mindset with CI/CD tooling.
• Prepare Cloud security provider documentation.
• Design VAEC/cloud-hosted solutions and address readiness gaps.

Skills

Azure architecture

CI/CD

DevOps practices

Cloud security

Scripting (Python, PowerShell)

IaC (ARM, Ansible)

Monitoring & Observability

Kubernetes / AKS

Cost management (FinOps)

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Azure VM

Azure SQL/ Cosmos

Azure AD / Entra ID

ARM Templates

GitHub Actions

Prometheus/Grafana

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC (SSG) is seeking a Cloud Computing Engineer Principal to lead Azure cloud design, security, and automation for VA Enterprise Cloud projects. Remote work within U.S. federal guidelines; strong DevOps and governance expertise essential.

Requirements include deep Azure experience, IaC, scripting, monitoring, and cross‑functional collaboration to deliver compliant, scalable cloud solutions.