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 skilled Senior Azure Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, and optimize secure, scalable cloud environments that support mission-critical applications and services. In this role, you will leverage your expertise in Microsoft Azure, automation, infrastructure as code, and cloud security to build and maintain modern cloud solutions while collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities- Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Azure.
- Provision and configure Azure resources such as virtual machines, storage accounts, and networking components.
- Automate deployment and management processes using tools like Azure DevOps, ARM templates, and PowerShell. Monitor and optimize the performance, scalability, and availability of cloud environments.
- Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
- Collaborate with development and IT operations teams to support application deployment and maintenance.
- Troubleshoot and resolve cloud-related issues and incidents.
- Provide guidance and training to teams on Azure services and best practices.
- Stay current with the latest Azure technologies and trends to drive continuous improvement.
- Active Top Secret Clearance is required
- The ability to work on Site in Washington DC
- 4 Year Degree Information Technology or related field or Equivalent Experience
- 8+ years of Experience
- Preferred Experience: Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator, or Azure DevOps Engineer.
- Experience with hybrid cloud environments and integration with on-premises systems.
- Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Ansible.
- Experience with network architecture and security in cloud environments.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Familiarity with ATO process, findings and remediation activities Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work in an Agile/Scrum development environment.
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
- Active Top Secret clearance
- Ability to work on-site in Washington, DC
- Four-year degree in Information Technology or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of experience
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect certification
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator certification
- Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer certification
- Experience with hybrid cloud environments and on-premises integration
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with Terraform or Ansible
- Experience with cloud network architecture and security
- Familiarity with the ATO process, findings, and remediation activities
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to work in an Agile/Scrum development environment
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.
