Azure Infrastructure Specialist

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 Infrastructure Engineer.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Manages routing/switching and network security, multi-OS environments, virtualization (e.g., VMware/Hyper-V), core cloud services, and release of IaC via pipelines; automates common admin tasks.
• Work & Complexity: Plans and executes upgrades/migrations, configures network devices and services, responds to incidents, monitors performance, and manages resources.
• Quality & Independence: Implements proactive monitoring, produces accurate documentation, improves processes, and works independently within project scope.
• Teamwork & Communication: Partners with peer teams, shares knowledge, coordinates changes, reports progress, and supports/train users.
• Consulting & Engagement: Advises internal teams on solutions and tools, evaluates technologies, recommends optimizations, and coordinates vendor support.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Azure Infrastructure Specialist.
Project Summary

AIS supports the Army.mil program, providing support to the Mobile Device Management workstream connecting iOS and Android devices to the client's network.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with our clients to design, implement, maintain, and test various technical solutions using the latest technologies.
• Create and enhance Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines and various automation processes, including build management, automated deployments, automated testing, and configuration management.
• Provide infrastructure management support for Microsoft Tunnel
• Respond to Tier 2 support tickets in Service Now
• Manage pipelines for application and IaC deployments into our various environments
• Gather technical requirements and execute deliverables
• Scale infrastructure and applications in an automated way
• Document DevOps processes, procedures, and environments to ensure continuity

Required For This Opportunity

• As a condition of employment, the candidate must acquire an AZ-104 Certificate within 30 days of being hired or will be at-risk for termination.
• Minimum of three years of Terraform and Azure Cloud experience
• Experience automating infrastructure and application deployments using pipelines (GitHub, Azure DevOps, etc.)
• Proficiency in infrastructure management and associated Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, etc.)
• Experience with cloud services (Azure)
• Active Secret Clearance

Nice to Have Skills

• CompTIA Security+
• Experience working with the DoD
• Experience in Windows or Linux Server Administration (with RedHat, CentOS, or similar)
• Understanding of application gateways, load balancers, and virtual network management
• Understanding of Microsoft Tunnel

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 $89,000-$134,000 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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