Data 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 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 Data Engineer.
Project Summary

As a Data Engineer, you will collaborate with our clients in supporting and optimizing our Azure-based container platform, with a primary focus on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This role is responsible for ensuring the stability, performance, and security of our cloud-native environments, including specialized platforms such as the POSIT (RStudio) ecosystem. The engineer will serve as a trusted subject matter expert across multiple infrastructure domains-networking, ingress, DNS, certificates, and firewall processes-while providing hands-on support and troubleshooting across application and platform layers. This position is ideal for someone who excels at solving complex technical challenges, collaborating across teams, and driving operational excellence in cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Bring strong expertise in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) operations and troubleshooting, including hands-on experience with Azure Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC) and integration with Azure Application Gateway v2.
• Provide operational support for the POSIT (RStudio) environment running within AKS clusters, including sustained support for applications hosted within the Posit platform.
• Contribute significant procedural knowledge related to firewall request workflows, DNS processes, and certificate lifecycle management, frequently executing and managing these processes on behalf of other teams.
• Apply general troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills to resolve complex platform, infrastructure, and application-related issues.

Required For This Opportunity

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or other Scientific/Technical discipline is required.
• Shall possess, at a minimum, a CompTIA Security+ certification or equivalent certification is required.
• Minimum of three years of Microsoft Azure experience for deploying highly available, scalable, and secure applications.
• Demonstrated expertise in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) operations and troubleshooting, including hands-on experience with Azure Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC) and seamless integration with Azure Application Gateway v2.
• Proficient understanding of firewall request workflows, DNS management processes, and certificate lifecycle management.
• General knowledge of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), AKS applications, and POSIT environments.
• Scripting experience in PowerShell, Python, or similar languages.
• Understanding of Azure services, including Azure SQL, Azure Networking, and Azure Active Directory.
• General knowledge of monitoring tools (e.g., Azure Policy).
• Understanding of Agile processes (Scrum/Kanban)
• Active Secret Clearance

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience with cARMY Cloud or GOV Cloud.
• Experience configuring Azure Virtual Desktops

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.
Applied Information Sciences does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs.