Sr. Cloud Developer

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 Sr. Cloud Developer.
Project Summary

The Senior Cloud Developer serves as a technical architect and security gatekeeper for an AWS cloud hosting platform, ensuring its readiness to support containerized applications and automated deployment pipelines. This role focuses on building secure, compliant, and scalable cloud environments using "security-by-design" principles, while driving platform governance and maintaining accreditation requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement cloud infrastructure and migrate existing on-premises applications into AWS.
• Analyze applications and provide recommendations for cloud platform selection, migration, deployment, and optimization.
• Design strategies for failure/recovery, cost optimization, and evaluation of cloud, cloud-agnostic, and on-premises solutions.
• Manage policies for cloud service usage and new technology requests while ensuring a secure cloud operating environment.
• Ensure uptime and availability design meets mission and performance needs.
• Independently design and develop new cloud software solutions or major enhancements to existing applications.
• Debug cloud stacks and manage platform infrastructure and services.
• Enforce platform governance aligned to compliance frameworks, including Security Assessment and Authorization (SAA).
• Maintain ATO compliance and drive remediation of security findings across infrastructure, platform, and application components.

Required For This Opportunity

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of cloud development or cloud engineering experience. Will consider 4 additional years of experience in lieu of degree.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud architecture, containerized applications, and cloud service delivery models.
• Expertise in DevSecOps practices with automation tools (GitLab and GitLab Runners), including securing CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration and security practices (AWS EKS).
• Experience implementing least privileged access and Zero Trust security principles.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), such as Terraform, for automating platform services.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently.
• Top Secret clearance required.

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience with container security tools (Aqua Security, Nessus, ACSA) for image scanning and vulnerability remediation.
• Background in cloud failure/recovery design and cost optimization strategies.
• Experience supporting cloud systems through SAA, ATO, or similar accreditation processes.

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 $121,000-$182,000 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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