Senior Cloud Engineer - On-Site

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.

What you will be doing?

This position is contingent upon contract award. We are currently pursuing a proposal and are seeking qualified candidates to include in our submission and identify candidates for future hiring needs on the program once awarded.

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 Senior Cloud Engineer - On-Site.

Senior Cloud Engineer - Shape the Future of Cloud Innovation

Are you ready to take your cloud engineering expertise to the next level? As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you'll work with cutting-edge cloud and data technologies to streamline mission-critical services. Join a team of forward-thinking professionals who push boundaries and deliver solutions that make a real impact.

This is an opportunity to be part of a high-impact, client-facing team in Lorton, VA, working directly with mission-critical operations. If you thrive in collaborative environments, embrace problem-solving, and want to shape the future of cloud technology, this role is for you!

What You'll Be Doing:

• Perform the Enclave Administrator (EA) role on behalf of the Customer, including deployment and maintenance of Mission Enclave infrastructure and all application-related responsibilities on Mission Enclave environment.
• System health monitoring include Azure Solution System Health, Program Application availability, and Capacity Management.
• Operational System Management (trouble tickets) - input, re-route, field, and escalate as appropriate.
• Conduct appropriate troubleshooting and remediation activities to include coordinating with System Owners, Product Team, and Migration Team for issues and coordinating with the appropriate team and/or personnel.
• Participate in planning sessions, and technical presentations, with customer project leads and staff.
• Analyze technical requirements and develop effective solutions.
• Complete regular maintenance on all systems / applications. This includes regular patching and vulnerability remediation and addressing end of service/end of life replacements.
• Complete approved configuration updates/changes and escalate where required if high-level architectural updates are needed.
• Sets up and delegates application-related responsibilities to Customer Mission Applications Administrator (MAA) role, which we provide to our Customer and their Mission Partners so they can administer applications within their enclave.
• Work closely with Customer as shared technical lead. Enable development, analysis, and deployment to be delivered on schedule and in line with Customer requirements.

Location and Travel Details:

This opportunity is client facing in the Lorton, VA area and requires full onsite presence.

Security Clearance and Citizenship Requirements:

• Must have and maintain an active Top-Secret clearance with SCI eligibility (TS/SCI)

Employment is contingent upon the candidate renewing or obtaining the CompTIA Security+ certification (or higher-level security credential) within the first 30 days of onboarding and renewing or obtaining the Microsoft AZ-104 certification within 90 days of joining the program.

Required for This Opportunity:

• Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent industry work experience)
• 8+ years of relevant engineering experience
• As a condition of employment, the candidate must acquire a CompTIA Security+ (or higher level security certification) within the first 30 days of hire
• Experience with Kubernetes - Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a plus
• Azure Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and strong DevSecOps experience (Bicep, ARM, PowerShell, CLI)
• Experience in one, or more, of the following: Cloud technologies, data and AI, security, business application design and implementation
• Ability to self-manage for maintenance of workloads and ensuring appropriate support of all systems/applications/workloads existing within the enclave (operational boundary)

Nice to Have Skills:

• Experience with Cross Domain Solutions - Azure Data Transfer (ADT) is a plus
• Certifications in Microsoft products, including Azure and Windows
• Familiarity with C4 networks / operating environments and SAP networks / operating environments preferred
• Experience supporting enterprise systems and applications such as VDI, database systems, web servers, etc.
• Strong understanding of networking principles like IP addressing, firewall rules, and routing.
• Experience implementing secure and scalable hybrid cloudarchitectures
• Experience with agile development tooling and practices.
• Direct customer relationship management, supporting prioritizations and workload management.

If you're looking for a career-defining opportunity to work on advanced cloud solutions while leading mission-driven initiatives, apply today and bring your expertise to the forefront of cloud innovation!

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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