When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.
Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.
Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.
Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.
Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.
What are we looking for?
At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.
Working@AIS
At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Senior Software Engineer.
Core Knowledge & Skills: Works across multiple languages and platforms, designs and implements architectural decisions, applies design patterns, cloud-native services, IAAS/PAAS/SAAS basics, and secure coding practices (e.g., OWASP Top 10).
Work & Complexity: Performs complex tasks under limited guidance, integrates and troubleshoots distributed or cloud services, and optimizes performance and scalability.
Quality & Independence: Sets a high bar for code quality, multitasks effectively, owns and corrects errors quickly, and drives continuous improvement.
Teamwork & Communication: Leads code reviews, mentors teammates, and translates technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
Consulting & Engagement: Works directly with clients without oversight, writes technical RFP content when needed, nurtures client relationships, and manages routine client concerns.
Join AIS as a Senior Enterprise Atlassian Engineer, supporting enterprise-level Jira and Confluence administration for a high-visibility national security mission. This hands-on role is critical to modernizing and scaling collaboration platforms across multi-enclave environments. You’ll partner with mission, security, IT, and operations teams to deliver resilient, secure, and high-performing Atlassian solutions that drive federal public safety and national security objectives
Key Responsibilities- Administer and scale Jira, Confluence, JSM, and Crowd for daily enterprise operations.
- Triage and resolve support tickets—from access requests to advanced configuration changes.
- Improve workflows, fields, dashboards, reports, templates, and permission models.
- Manage marketplace apps, including installs, upgrades, troubleshooting, and performance checks.
- Oversee access and identity via Crowd, Microsoft Entra ID, and SSO integrations.
- Run platform operations: upgrades, patches, deployments, backups, logging, and monitoring.
- Support compliance needs, including ATO documentation, audits, and configuration baselines.
- Active Top Secret clearance
- Ability to work onsite in Washington, DC (5 days/week)
- Minimum 5 years supporting enterprise IT platforms or collaboration ecosystems
- Handson experience administering enterprise Jira, Confluence, and Crowd with focus on workflow design, automations and plugin management
- Familiarity with Linux administration, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and FISMA/ATO compliance
- Strong written and verbal communication; excels in stakeholder engagement and cross‑team collaboration.
- Comfortable operating in fast paced, dynamic environments; able to prioritize and deliver under shifting mission needs.
- Familiarity with Agile/SAFe; able to configure tools to reflect bestpractice delivery models and ceremonies.
- Experience in federal/highsecurity or multienclave environments.
- Experience integrating AIenabled capabilities (e.g., classifiers, intelligent routing) into enterprise collaboration platform.
- Willing to go through CI poly
Applied Information Sciences does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs.
Skills Required
- Active Top Secret clearance
- Ability to work onsite in Washington, DC (5 days/week)
- Minimum 5 years supporting enterprise IT platforms or collaboration ecosystems
- Hands-on experience administering enterprise Jira, Confluence, and Crowd with workflow design, automations, and plugin management
- Familiarity with Linux administration
- Familiarity with PostgreSQL and MySQL
- Familiarity with FISMA/ATO compliance and support for audits and ATO documentation
- Strong written and verbal communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to operate in fast-paced, dynamic environments and prioritize under shifting mission needs
- Familiarity with Agile/SAFe and configuring tools to reflect delivery models and ceremonies
- Experience in federal/high‑security or multi‑enclave environments
- Experience integrating AI-enabled capabilities into enterprise collaboration platforms
- Willingness to undergo CI polygraph
AIS (Applied Information Sciences) Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Employee ownership via an ESOP is emphasized and contributes meaningful long‑term value to total rewards. Equity participation is positioned as a core part of the package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer match is consistently described alongside the ESOP. Together these programs are framed as key pillars of financial benefits.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan choices, plus dental and vision, are highlighted as part of a comprehensive offering. Health coverage is paired with PTO and paid holidays to round out the package.
AIS (Applied Information Sciences) Insights
What We Do
AIS (Applied Information Sciences) provides software and systems engineering services to government agencies and businesses across the United States. We specialize in cloud services, DevOps, custom application development, and IT services. Our areas of expertise include custom application development, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Office 365, SharePoint, Dynamics 365, User Experience (UX), business intelligence/advanced analytics and IoT, and Managed Services. Our customers include a broad range of organizations, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, and include state and local governments as well as defense and national security agencies. Our analysis-driven approach to solving business problems—combined with our commitment to deadlines and budgets—results in successful projects and long-term relationships with our clients. We're a top-tier cloud partner for Microsoft, Amazon and Equinix with proven capabilities and a track record of success. AIS is a Microsoft gold partner with six competencies and a Microsoft National Solution Provider (NSP). From over 750,000 Microsoft partners, there are less than 50 partners that have been selected for inclusion in the NSP organization. Microsoft chooses partners for this program that have proven capabilities to scale to the needs of large enterprises across the United States. Founded in 1982, AIS is a growing and privately held company headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with offices in Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Indiana, and India. Check out our opportunities at careers.ais.com.
