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.
Job Summary:
Seeking an experienced Microsoft System Engineer with deep expertise in SharePoint Farm Administration for Subscription Edition in a hybrid configuration with SharePoint Online in secure settings. The ideal candidate will manage and optimize Windows Server environments, virtualized infrastructure, and enterprise service delivery, while also administering and supporting complex SharePoint farms in a secure, hybrid federal environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Systems Engineering & Infrastructure
Administer, configure, and maintain Windows Server 2016 and newer environments (patching, upgrades, performance tuning).
Design, implement, and support virtualized infrastructure (VMware, Hyper-V, etc.).
Coordinate with enterprise service delivery teams (ICAM, Cyber Security, domain admins, etc.) for integration and compliance.
Monitor system health, troubleshoot issues, and proactively address risks to stability and security.
Develop and maintain documentation for system configurations, processes, and procedures.
Support enterprise authentication, access management, and security controls per federal standards.
Participate in planning and execution of system migrations, upgrades, and technology refreshes.
Provide Tier 3 support for escalated issues and mentor junior engineers.
SharePoint Farm Administration (Subscription Edition, Hybrid)
Administer and maintain SharePoint Subscription Edition farms, including installation, configuration, patching, and upgrades.
Manage hybrid SharePoint environments, integrating on-premises farms with SharePoint Online.
Monitor farm health, performance, and capacity; implement backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies.
Configure and manage service applications, web applications, site collections, and permissions.
Troubleshoot and resolve farm-level issues, including connectivity, authentication, and integration with enterprise services.
Collaborate with stakeholders to support business solutions and ensure secure, compliant SharePoint operations.
Develop and enforce best practices for SharePoint farm administration, governance, and security.
Stay current with SharePoint Subscription Edition and Online features, updates, and federal compliance requirements.
Key Skills and Capabilities
Advanced knowledge of Windows Server 2016+ and Active Directory.
Experience with virtualized environments (VMware, Hyper-V).
Expertise in SharePoint Subscription Edition farm administration (installation, configuration, patching, upgrades).
Experience managing hybrid SharePoint environments (on-premises and SharePoint Online integration).
Familiarity with enterprise authentication, PKI, and identity management (ICAM).
Understanding of federal cybersecurity standards and compliance.
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills for infrastructure and SharePoint farm issues.
Ability to collaborate with cross-functional enterprise teams.
Excellent documentation and communication skills.
Experience supporting classified environments (yellow/red networks) highly desirable.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field (or 4 additional years of experience in lieu of degree).
8+ years of IT experience, with at least 5 years in system engineering and SharePoint farm administration.
Relevant certifications (Microsoft Certified: Windows Server, SharePoint Hybrid, VMware Certified Professional, etc.) are a plus.
Active TS/SCI clearance required.
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.
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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.
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