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.
AIS is seeking a Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer to design, build, and optimize secure Azure Virtual Desktop environments that provide a dependable user experience for Codex-enabled development and broader virtual desktop modernization for a federal customer.
Key ResponsibilitiesEngineer AVD host pools, session hosts, images, scaling plans, application delivery, and user profiles.
Create secure desktop patterns for Codex access, including the required network segmentation, firewall rules, browser and developer-tool controls.
Implement and support FSLogix, Entra ID, Intune, profile storage, image lifecycle, and monitoring integrations.
Plan and execute Citrix transition activities, performance validation, capacity planning, and user acceptance testing.
Troubleshoot performance, sign-in, profile, application, network, and graphics issues across the AVD stack.
Produce deployment standards, operational runbooks, and technical knowledge transfer for steady-state support.
7+ years of endpoint, virtual desktop, or Windows infrastructure engineering experience.
Hands-on AVD design and implementation experience with pooled and personal desktop patterns.
Strong knowledge of FSLogix, Windows 11, Entra ID, Intune, Azure networking, and profile-storage design.
Experience with image engineering, application packaging, performance tuning, and monitoring.
Ability to work independently in a secure, highly controlled enterprise environment.
Citrix migration experience.
IGEL, thin-client, GPU-enabled desktop, or Azure NetApp Files experience.
Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty certification.
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
- 7+ years of endpoint, virtual desktop, or Windows infrastructure engineering experience
- Hands-on Azure Virtual Desktop design and implementation experience with pooled and personal desktop patterns
- Strong knowledge of FSLogix, Windows 11, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Intune, Azure networking, and profile-storage design
- Experience with image engineering, application packaging, performance tuning, and monitoring
- Ability to work independently in a secure, highly controlled enterprise environment
- Citrix migration experience
- Experience with IGEL, thin clients, GPU-enabled desktops, or Azure NetApp Files
- Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty certification
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.
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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.
