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Washington, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 23 Feb 2026
💰 $154,000/yr($102,000/yr$154,000/yr)

About the role

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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer.
  • Core Knowledge & Skills: Designs complex network and hybrid‑cloud solutions; implements security controls, DR/BCP, and automated IaC with deployment pipelines; performs advanced performance tuning.

  • Work & Complexity: Solves complex issues, designs and delivers new infrastructure solutions, performs capacity planning, and leads advanced automation initiatives.

  • Quality & Independence: Drives root‑cause analysis, enforces best practices and QA on changes, optimizes for reliability and user experience; operates with high autonomy.

  • Teamwork & Communication: Leads cross‑functional efforts, mentors juniors, facilitates knowledge transfer, and aligns stakeholders with technical plans.

  • Consulting & Engagement: Provides strategic input on infrastructure initiatives, recommends advanced technologies, and manages vendor relationships.

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

Project Summary
 

We are seeking a Mid-Level Cloud Engineer to support the development, migration, and optimization of cloud-based applications and services. This role focuses on designing cloud delivery models—including PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, and DaaS—while implementing DevSecOps-based automation to ensure secure, scalable, and resilient cloud environments. The ideal candidate brings hands-on cloud engineering experience and the ability to work independently on both new development and modernization efforts.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement cloud applications and migrate existing on-premises applications to the cloud.

  • Analyze applications and provide recommendations for cloud platform selection, migration, deployment, and optimization.

  • Design strategies for failure/recovery, cost optimization, and evaluating cloud, cloud-agnostic, and on-premises services.

  • Manage and enforce policies for cloud service usage and new technology requests, ensuring a secure cloud environment.

  • Ensure appropriate uptime and availability design for cloud-hosted services.

  • Independently design and develop new cloud software solutions or major enhancements to existing applications.

  • Debug cloud stacks, troubleshoot issues, and manage cloud infrastructure.

Required For This Opportunity

  • Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years of cloud engineering or cloud development experience.

  • Strong understanding of cloud platforms, services, and cloud service delivery models (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, DaaS).

  • Proficiency with DevSecOps practices and automation tools (GitLab preferred).

  • Experience with container orchestration and associated security practices.

  • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

  • Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to work independently.

  • Experience developing migration plans, deployment strategies, and optimization recommendations for cloud applications.

  • Top Secret Security Clearance required

Nice to Have Skills

  • Experience designing cloud failure/recovery and resiliency strategies.

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Company

AIS (Applied Information Sciences)

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