Principal Cloud Computing Engineer — Healthcare Systems

Job overview

The Principal Cloud Computing Engineer role is fully remote within the United States, excluding California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Washington. Annual salary is $109,623–$126,790. The role supports the Department of Veterans Affairs and its healthcare systems through Syms Strategic Group. The engineer designs, deploys, and operates secure, scalable Azure infrastructure and cloud-hosted systems. The work supports VA cloud environments through architecture, automation, monitoring, security, compliance, and modernization, while providing technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams.

What you'll do

• Create cloud architecture and data flow diagrams
• design and operate CI/CD automation
• manage cloud permissions
• implement monitoring for performance and compliance
• provision and support VA Enterprise Cloud Azure GovCloud environments
• document cloud security
• design cloud-hosted solutions and address cloud-readiness gaps
• mentor engineers and contribute to architecture governance.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

principal cloud computing engineer

azure

cloud infrastructure

devops

ci/cd

healthcare systems

veterans affairs

fully remote u.s.

public trust mbi

u.s. citizenship required

$109,623–$126,790

on-call support

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Fully remote U.S. role with listed state exclusions; U.S. citizenship required; must possess or qualify for Public Trust (MBI); 20+ years of professional experience stated; on-call support required.

About the employer

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