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 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 Technical Expert, Senior.

Project Summary
 

We are seeking a Senior Technical Expert to support the installation, configuration, and integration of a COTS software product across test and production environments. This role requires broad technical experience across networking, compute, identity, and system integration, with hands‑on involvement throughout deployment and troubleshooting. The ideal candidate works well across diverse teams and can operate independently to ensure systems are fully operational and compliant.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and validate the COTS software product in test and production environments.

• Coordinate integration activities with networking, server/VM, identity, and application teams.

• Evaluate system requirements, dependencies, and integration points for readiness and compatibility.

• Support networking, compute, database, identity, and API‑based integration activities.

• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including installation guides and configuration baselines.

• Assist with documentation for system accreditation, compliance, and security assessments.

• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues throughout testing and deployment phases.

• Communicate status, risks, and technical considerations to stakeholders and leadership.

Required For This Opportunity

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 8 years of relevant technical experience.

• Broad experience across networking, servers/virtualization, identity management, and system integration.

• Strong understanding of ports, protocols, firewalls, and network connectivity troubleshooting.

• Experience with Windows and/or Linux server environments and VM platforms (VMware, Hyper‑V).

• Hands‑on experience with Microsoft SQL Server and relational database concepts.

• Working knowledge of authentication and identity services, including Microsoft Entra ID.

• Familiarity with APIs, RESTful services, and integration concepts (Microsoft Graph preferred).

• Active Top Secret clearance required.

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