Senior Azure Cloud Architect - Remote, Gov/Security

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is a 100% U.S.-based remote opportunity seeking an experienced cloud architect/proposal lead. The role focuses on designing and deploying secure, scalable Azure solutions for the VA environment, ensuring alignment with security standards and enterprise objectives.

The successful candidate will collaborate across BD, capture, and proposal teams, provide mentorship, and drive technical solutions from concept to delivery while maintaining high availability and cost

Qualifications

• Proven track record designing, deploying, and managing Azure infrastructure and services.
• Experience with large-scale, high-availability, scalable cloud architecture.
• Expertise with Azure services: VMs, SQL Database, VNet, Functions, Azure AD, ARM templates, Monitor, DNS.
• Experience with Azure security services and best practices, including DDoS Protection, Firewall, Defender for Cloud, and WAF.
• Knowledge of cloud governance: Management Groups, Policy, Landing Zones and cost governance.

Responsibilities

• Develop solutions to meet customer requirements and prepare a competitive price proposal.
• Collaborate with business development, capture, proposal, and other team members to optimize the proposed solutions.
• Identify staff needs for Pre-Bid and Proposal activities and coordinate staffing.
• Coordinate with technical leadership on solution development, proposal writing, and estimating.
• Provide guidance to team members to meet objectives and policies.
• Design, implement, and govern secure, scalable Azure cloud architectures with EA alignment.
• Mentor engineers, architects, and teams to foster growth and knowledge sharing.
• Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and organizational standards.

Skills

Azure cloud

High availability

Security architecture

Cost management

Python scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Team leadership

Vendor liaison

Education

Bachelor

Tools

Azure Virtual Machines

Azure SQL Database

Azure Functions

Azure Monitor

Azure DNS

Azure DevOps

Azure Pipelines

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is a 100% U.S.-based remote opportunity seeking an experienced cloud architect/proposal lead. The role focuses on designing and deploying secure, scalable Azure solutions for the VA environment, ensuring alignment with security standards and enterprise objectives.

The successful candidate will collaborate across BD, capture, and proposal teams, provide mentorship, and drive technical solutions from concept to delivery while maintaining high availability and cost