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 Project Manager.
Core Knowledge & Skills: Expert in advanced project management methodologies, strategic planning, and complex contract management. Deep understanding of industry best practices and business unit operations.
Work & Complexity: Oversees large, complex projects or programs, manages cross-functional teams, and ensures alignment with organizational goals. Resolves high-impact risks and issues.
Quality & Independence: Sets quality benchmarks, drives strategic initiatives, and operates with broad autonomy and accountability.
Teamwork & Communication: Leads and mentors project teams, fosters collaboration across departments, and communicates effectively with senior leadership and clients.
Consulting & Engagement: Advises executives and stakeholders on project strategy, drives innovation, and champions continuous improvement across the organization.
Position Summary
We are seeking a Senior Project Manager with a strong technical foundation in Azure infrastructure to lead the planning, coordination, and execution of complex cloud deployment initiatives. This role is responsible for managing cross-functional teams delivering Azure-based infrastructure solutions, including landing zones, networking, identity, security, governance, migration, and platform services. The ideal candidate combines disciplined project delivery leadership with enough technical depth to engage architects, engineers, security teams, and customer stakeholders effectively.
This individual will serve as the central point of coordination across business, technical, and operational workstreams to ensure Azure infrastructure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned to security, compliance, and operational readiness requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end delivery of Azure infrastructure deployment projects, from initiation through planning, execution, testing, cutover, and transition to operations.
Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, RAID logs, dependency tracking, and executive status reporting.
Coordinate cross-functional teams including cloud architects, Azure engineers, network engineers, identity engineers, security teams, operations teams, and third-party vendors.
Drive deployment planning for core Azure infrastructure components such as landing zones, subscriptions, management groups, virtual networks, connectivity, identity integration, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery.
Translate technical delivery activities into clear project plans, timelines, work packages, and stakeholder communications.
Manage project governance, scope, budget, change control, and resource alignment across multiple concurrent workstreams.
Facilitate technical and programmatic meetings, including design reviews, readiness reviews, risk reviews, and executive steering updates.
Identify delivery risks, environmental constraints, and interdependencies early, and drive mitigation plans to resolution.
Ensure alignment with enterprise security, compliance, and operational standards, especially for regulated or mission-critical environments.
Partner with technical leads to validate deployment readiness, testing completion, cutover planning, and support transition requirements.
Track deliverables, action items, and decisions to maintain execution discipline and accountability across teams.
Support customer and leadership communications with concise, accurate reporting on progress, blockers, financials, and next steps.
Promote adoption of project management best practices, delivery standards, and continuous improvement across infrastructure programs.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field.
8+ years of project management experience leading enterprise IT infrastructure or cloud transformation initiatives.
3+ years of experience managing Azure infrastructure deployment projects.
Strong understanding of Azure core infrastructure services, including:
Azure landing zones
Virtual networks, routing, and connectivity
Identity and access management with Microsoft Entra ID
Subscription and governance models
Security controls and policy enforcement
Monitoring, backup, and resiliency concepts
Demonstrated experience managing technical delivery teams in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
Experience developing and maintaining detailed project schedules, resource plans, RAID logs, status reports, and executive briefings.
Strong understanding of project delivery methodologies including waterfall, agile, and hybrid delivery models.
Proven ability to manage scope, schedule, budget, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and executive audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, or similar project management certification.
Microsoft Azure certification such as Azure Administrator, Azure Solutions Architect, or Azure Fundamentals.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code and DevOps-enabled delivery models using tools such as Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps, or GitHub.
Experience supporting Azure migrations involving servers, applications, storage, or virtual desktop environments.
Familiarity with enterprise governance and security frameworks such as Zero Trust, NIST, CIS, or Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework.
Experience in regulated environments such as government, defense, healthcare, or financial services.
Experience managing operational readiness and transition-to-support activities for cloud services.
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. Check out our opportunities at careers.ais.com.
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