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 Sr. SQL Server Database Administrator.

Project Summary
 

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior SQL Server Database Administrator (DBA) to support, secure, and optimize mission‑critical database environments across multiple security domains. This role is responsible for full‑lifecycle SQL Server administration, including installation, configuration, backup/recovery, performance tuning, HA/DR, security hardening, and compliance enforcement. The ideal candidate brings extensive hands‑on experience managing enterprise SQL Server environments and supporting advanced analytics, reporting, and application teams. An active Top Secret clearance is required.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and maintain Microsoft SQL Server across Dev, UAT, and Production environments hosted on Windows Server and cloud platforms.

• Own SQL Server installation, configuration, patching, backup/recovery, performance tuning, and security enforcement.

• Provide daily operational support, including monitoring, troubleshooting, maintenance jobs, and vulnerability remediation.

• Design, implement, and support HA/DR solutions, including Always On Availability Groups and Windows Server Failover Clustering.

• Perform advanced performance tuning, T‑SQL optimization, index management, and issue resolution.

• Support SQL Server components such as SSRS, SSAS, and Power BI Report Server.

• Proactively maintain SQL environments for performance, reliability, and compliance.

• Implement and enforce database security controls, including TDE, encryption standards, STIG compliance, and audit readiness.

• Resolve complex database issues, such as performance bottlenecks, data corruption, and connectivity problems.

• Maintain detailed documentation for configurations, standards, procedures, and recovery strategies.

• Collaborate with developers on schema design, stored procedures, and query optimization.

• Plan and execute database upgrades, migrations, and patch cycles.

• Ensure compliance with regulatory, industry, and customer security requirements.

• Participate in on‑call rotations for after‑hours support.

• Install