Cloud Engineer

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.
• Background managing cloud policies and secure cloud operating environments.
• Experience supporting hybrid or multi-cloud environments.

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 $102,000-$154,000 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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