Sr. Infrastructure Engineer

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.

 

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 Infrastructure Architect.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Architects scalable, resilient solutions; authors roadmaps and blueprints; integrates diverse components; advances automation (PowerShell/Python/Ansible) and governance/policy.

• Work & Complexity: Leads architectural initiatives, establishes performance benchmarks, integrates systems at scale, researches emerging tech, and mitigates enterprise risk.

• Quality & Independence: Ensures integrity, scalability, and cost/performance optimization; produces comprehensive design artifacts; sets and enforces standards with broad autonomy.

• Teamwork & Communication: Leads architectural teams, builds strategic partnerships, institutionalizes knowledge management, and communicates designs and executive‑ready reports.

• Consulting & Engagement: Delivers architectural consulting aligned to business strategy, proposes enterprise technologies, nurtures vendor alliances, and seeds new project opportunities.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Sr. Infrastructure Engineer. Project Summary

Utilize cloud, data, and infrastructure technologies to design, implement, and support complex enterprise solutions for global brands and federal agencies.

Key Responsibilities

Architect scalable and secure systems, develop and optimize data pipelines and stream applications to ensure high performance, reliability and data integrity.

Required For This Opportunity

Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field and two (2) years of experience as software engineer or related. Must have experience with designing/deploying Cloud infrastructure using reusable Terraform modules to provision kubernetes clusters, networking components, storage accounts, RBAC roles, and other Cloud services through terraform cloud for governance and automation; onboarding applications into kubernetes with Helm and GitOps (FluxCD), implementing Cloud IAM  for secure pod-to-service authentication, and building CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for both infrastructure and application deployments; performing Cloud networking design, including VNets, private endpoints, DNS, Application Gateway, Front Door, and API management (APIM); and deploying/maintaining multi-region workloads, testing failover, and disaster recovery processes, and automating governance through Terraform Cloud and Azure DevOps.

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 $138,000-$209,000 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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