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 Associate Infrastructure Engineer.
Core Knowledge & Skills: Applies fundamentals of networking, OS administration (Windows/Linux), basic cloud concepts, scripting (PowerShell/Bash), Git, and IaC; performs routine installs, updates, backups, monitoring, and documented troubleshooting under guidance.
Work & Complexity: Handles well‑defined maintenance and support tasks; resolves straightforward incidents; creates basic infrastructure documentation.
Quality & Independence: Follows standards and SOPs, executes accurately and on time, escalates appropriately; operates with limited decision latitude while focusing on learning.
Teamwork & Communication: Supports senior engineers, collaborates across IT, communicates status, and documents changes; assists users and incorporates feedback.
Consulting & Engagement: Provides basic technical assistance, shares emerging best practices, suggests small process improvements, and coordinates with vendors on simple issues.
AIS is seeking an Azure/M365 Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Engineer to provide dependable day-to-day operations, monitoring, change implementation, and incident response for Azure and/or Microsoft 365 services delivered to the customer.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor and maintain Azure and M365 services, including identity, networking, compute, storage, collaboration, governance, and platform monitoring components.
- Investigate and resolve incidents, service requests, recurring problems, and performance issues in accordance with agreed service levels.·
- Implement approved changes, maintain configuration documentation, and support release and maintenance activities.
- Perform backup, recovery, access, health-check, and capacity-management activities as assigned.
- Create and refine runbooks, knowledge articles, dashboards, and operational reports.
- Work closely with project teams during service transition and early-life support.
Required For This Opportunity
- 4+ years in Azure, Microsoft 365, or enterprise cloud operations.
- Experience with Entra ID, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Azure networking, and M365 administration.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across identity, network, endpoint, and application service layers.
- Experience working in ticketing, change-control, and knowledge-management processes.
- Ability to write clear technical documentation and communicate effectively with users and engineers.
Nice to Have Skills
- Azure Government, GCC High, or NIST-based environment experience.
- Azure Administrator or Microsoft 365 Administrator certification.
- Experience with Teamcenter, SharePoint, Exchange Online, or Purview operations.
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
- 4+ years of experience in Azure, Microsoft 365, or enterprise cloud operations
- Experience with Entra ID, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Azure networking, and Microsoft 365 administration
- Strong troubleshooting skills across identity, network, endpoint, and application service layers
- Experience working in ticketing, change-control, and knowledge-management processes
- Ability to write clear technical documentation and communicate effectively with users and engineers
- Experience with Azure Government, GCC High, or NIST-based environments
- Azure Administrator or Microsoft 365 Administrator certification
- Experience with Teamcenter, SharePoint, Exchange Online, or Purview operations
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.
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