Senior Azure Cloud Engineer: DevOps & Security (Remote)

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

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a talented Full Stack Developer (Cloud Computing) to join a remote VA-focused team. The role centers on Azure cloud design, scalable architecture, and DevOps practices for secure, compliant deployments.

The candidate will design, monitor, and optimize cloud services, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable VA Enterprise Cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, deploying, and managing Azure infrastructure and services.

Responsibilities

• Create data flow diagrams, cloud diagrams, transition diagrams and high-level architecture diagrams on Cloud Infrastructure, applications, and systems
• Design, develop, deploy, and operate automation technologies for CI/CD
• Manage and control permissions in the cloud service provider for each cloud application, storage, and service
• Implement, manage, and design monitoring capabilities for cloud architecture and cloud-hosted systems and apps to ensure performance and compliance
• Provide customer-focused support for VA Enterprise Cloud environments
• Provide Cloud support services for VAEC Azure (GovCloud) environments, ensuring compliance with VIP development, release, and documentation requirements
• Adopt a DevOps mindset with CI/CD practices and tooling
• Provide Cloud Security Provider Documentation
• Design VAEC/cloud-hosted solutions and address cloud-readiness gaps

Skills

Azure cloud design

Azure deployments

CI/CD automation

DevOps practices

Scripting (Python/PowerShell/JS)

IaC (ARM/Ansible/GitOps)

Security & compliance (HIPAA/FedRAMP/N

Azure monitoring/logging

Docker/Kubernetes

Cloud governance & cost management

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Cloud Engineering or related technical discipline

Tools

Azure Virtual Machines

Azure Blob Storage

Azure SQL Database

Azure Functions

Azure Monitor

Azure DNS

Azure Resource Manager

Azure Cost Management

Docker

AKS

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

ARM Templates

PowerShell

Python

Prometheus

Grafana

New Relic

Azure DevOps Pipelines

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a talented Full Stack Developer (Cloud Computing) to join a remote VA-focused team. The role centers on Azure cloud design, scalable architecture, and DevOps practices for secure, compliant deployments.

The candidate will design, monitor, and optimize cloud services, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable VA Enterprise Cloud environments.