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 Software Engineer.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Operates independently or as a team lead, selects appropriate persistence technologies (e.g., EF, Dapper), defines source control strategies, and designs subsystem infrastructure.

• Work & Complexity: Tackles complex problems with thorough analysis, manages cross-functional delivery, and improves system reliability and scalability.

• Quality & Independence: Consistently meets deadlines even under challenging conditions, enforces standards through detailed reviews, and establishes productivity benchmarks for the team.

• Teamwork & Communication: Provides functional leadership by setting objectives, organizing resources, resolving conflicts, and engaging confidently with both internal and external stakeholders.

• Consulting & Engagement: Troubleshoots advanced client issues, supports requirements gathering, and contributes to vendor presentations or proposal activities.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Senior Azure Cloud Architect.

Project Summary

AIS is supporting federal customer with a program focused on architecture and infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for new cloud architecture design, development and integration of new architectural features into existing cloud infrastructures while maintaining the integrity and security of enterprise-wide cyber systems and networks.

• Lead multi-disciplined teams in the design and implementation of cybersecurity system architecture.

• Able to apply cyber security standards, directives, guidance and policies to a cloud architectural framework.

• Compile industry best practices and lessons learned into future iterations and new designs for the cloud hosting environment.

• Provide broad based experience in the systems engineering lifecycle and specific cyber security initiatives relating to cloud architectural design and development.

• Resolve cloud architecture implementation issues during integration and test.  Interface with internal and external entities for various solution related activities.

• Ability to develop and deliver end-to-end, complex, enterprise level solutions that meet current and future capability requirements.

Required For This Opportunity

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

• 8+ years of relevant experience supporting enterprise cloud and/or infrastructure environments.

• Certifications: IAT-2, 1 or more cloud certifications.

• Active Secret clearance.

• Experience working in regulated environments and following secure engineering / documentation practices.

• Ability to work in a hybrid environment at sites near Boston, MA.

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience supporting DoD/IC programs and mission systems.

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 $117,000-$177,000 per year.