Senior Cloud Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Cloud Engineer role is 100% remote within the United States, excluding candidates from CA, CO, IL, MN, NJ, NY, OR, and WA. Pay is $109,623–$126,790 per year. The role supports the Department of Veterans Affairs and its VA Enterprise Cloud environments. The engineer designs, deploys, and operates secure, scalable Azure infrastructure and automation, supporting cloud-hosted systems and applications. The role contributes to reliable service delivery and compliance through architecture, monitoring, security, documentation, and modernization work.

What you'll do

• Create cloud and data-flow architecture diagrams
• design, develop, deploy, and operate CI/CD automation
• manage cloud permissions
• implement monitoring for performance and compliance
• configure and provision VA Enterprise Cloud environments
• support Azure GovCloud systems and applications
• document cloud security
• design cloud-hosted solutions and address readiness gaps
• mentor engineers and participate in on-call support when required.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior cloud engineer

syms strategic group (ssg)

remote us

full-time

$109,623–$126,790/year

azure

va enterprise cloud

azure govcloud

devops

ci/cd

public trust (mbi)

u.s. citizenship required

on-call support

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to possess or qualify for Public Trust (MBI). The posting requires 20+ years of professional experience and a bachelor’s degree in a related technical discipline; on-call support is required when needed.

About the employer

Syms Strategic Group, LLC (SSG) is hiring for this role. Industry: Engineering Services. Sector: 54.