Senior Azure Cloud Architect & Automation Lead

SAIC; Texas; Remote; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

SAIC is seeking a Principal Cloud Computing Engineer to lead VA cloud migration efforts in a fully remote capacity. You will design architectures, implement CI/CD and automation, and guide a high-performance team through large-scale Azure deployments.

The role emphasizes autonomy, security compliance, DevOps mindset, and mentoring engineers while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Proven design, deployment and management of Azure infra and services.
• Experience with large-scale, highly available cloud architectures.
• Strong DevOps, CI/CD and automation background.

Responsibilities

• Create data flow and cloud diagrams for cloud infra and apps.
• Design, deploy, and operate automation for CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage cloud permissions and security configurations.
• Implement monitoring for cloud architectures to meet VA/fed policies.
• Provide cloud support for VAEC Azure GovCloud environments.
• Mentor engineers and lead cloud modernization initiatives.

Skills

Azure cloud

DevOps

CI/CD

Python scripting

PowerShell

IaC (ARM/Terraform)

GitOps

Docker/Kubernetes

Security best practices

Monitoring/Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree + 20 years experience

Master's degree + 10 years experience

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

AKS / Kubernetes

ARM Templates

Ansible

Terraform

Prometheus Grafana

New Relic

Job description

SAIC is seeking a Principal Cloud Computing Engineer to lead VA cloud migration efforts in a fully remote capacity. You will design architectures, implement CI/CD and automation, and guide a high-performance team through large-scale Azure deployments.

The role emphasizes autonomy, security compliance, DevOps mindset, and mentoring engineers while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.