Cloud Developer, Sr

Why AIS?

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 Lead Infrastructure Engineer.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Aligns infrastructure strategy to business goals, leads large projects, applies compliance frameworks, designs high availability/disaster recovery and performance optimization patterns, and shapes deployment pipeline design.

• Work & Complexity: Directs cross-team programs, performs advanced tuning, implements high availability/failover architectures, leads audits, plans growth, and manages budgets.

• Quality & Independence: Delivers high-quality outcomes, sets team standards, introduces innovative solutions, and makes high-impact decisions.

• Teamwork & Communication: Leads the engineering team, develops talent, resolves conflicts, and communicates effectively with senior leadership and stakeholders.

• Consulting & Engagement: Provides high-level consulting to leadership, builds roadmaps, negotiates vendor contracts, and sponsors innovation initiatives.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Cloud Developer, Sr. Project Summary
 

The Cloud Developer Sr serves as a technical architect and security gatekeeper for an AWS cloud hosting platform. This role ensures platform readiness for containerized applications and drives the development of automated pipelines to build, deploy, and monitor systems using “security-by-design” principles. The ideal candidate will lead cloud modernization efforts, support secure application delivery, and maintain compliance across infrastructure, platform, and application layers.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement scalable cloud infrastructure solutions and migrate existing on-premises applications to AWS environments.

• Analyze applications and provide recommendations for cloud migration, deployment strategies, and performance optimization.

• Design and implement automated CI/CD pipelines for building, deploying, and monitoring applications with integrated security controls.

• Provide strategies for high availability, disaster recovery, cost optimization, and performance efficiency across cloud and hybrid environments.

• Establish and enforce cloud governance policies, including service usage standards and onboarding of new technologies.

• Ensure cloud environments meet availability, reliability, and uptime requirements.

• Design and develop new cloud-based software products or enhance existing platforms.

• Troubleshoot and debug cloud infrastructure, platforms, and application stacks.

• Enforce compliance with security frameworks, including Security Assessment and Authorization (SAA) requirements.

• Maintain Authority to Operate (ATO) compliance and lead remediation efforts for security findings throughout accreditation processes.

Required for This Opportunity

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in software development, cloud engineering, or cloud architecture roles.

• Strong experience designing and delivering cloud-based solutions, particularly within AWS environments.

• Proven experience with DevSecOps practices and secure software delivery pipelines.

• Hands-on experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform.

• Demonstrated experience managing cloud governance policies and securing cloud environments.

• Ability to work independently, analyze complex technical challenges, and deliver scalable solutions.

• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.

• Active Top Secret clearance

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience with container orchestration platforms, specifically AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).

• Knowledge of container security best practices, including image scanning and vulnerability remediation.

• Experience with security tools such as Aqua Security, Nessus, and ACSA.

• Proficiency with GitLab CI/CD and GitLab Runners, including securing pipelines.

• Familiarity with Zero Trust architecture and implementing least-privilege access models.

• Experience supporting federal compliance frameworks and accreditation processes.

• AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer) preferred.

At AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team member. The targeted base salary range for this role is $121,000-$182,000 per year. Please note that this range is provided as a guideline and the final offer will be based on several factors, including but not limited to, skillset and competencies, level of experience, education, certifications, and location. We value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process.

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