AI / M365 Security and Identity Governance 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.

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Employee Ownership : Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.

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Continuous Learning : Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

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Inclusive Culture : A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.

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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 Software Engineer.
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Core Knowledge & Skills: Operates independently or as a team lead, selects appropriate persistence technologies (e.g., EF, Dapper), defines source control strategies, and designs subsystem infrastructure.

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Work & Complexity: Tackles complex problems with thorough analysis, manages cross-functional delivery, and improves system reliability and scalability.

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Quality & Independence: Consistently meets deadlines even under challenging conditions, enforces standards through detailed reviews, and establishes productivity benchmarks for the team.

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Teamwork & Communication: Provides functional leadership by setting objectives, organizing resources, resolving conflicts, and engaging confidently with both internal and external stakeholders.

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Consulting & Engagement: Troubleshoots advanced client issues, supports requirements gathering, and contributes to vendor presentations or proposal activities.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a AI / M365 Security and Identity Governance Engineer. Project Summary

AIS is seeking an AI / M365 Security and Identity Governance Engineer that can support a federal customer in engineering security, identity, and governance controls that allow AI, virtual desktop, and Microsoft 365 services to scale safely in a regulated environment.
Key Responsibilities

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Design and implement Entra ID, Conditional Access, privileged access, RBAC, and identity-lifecycle controls.

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Establish security patterns for Azure AI Foundry, AVD, Power Platform, and Microsoft 365 workloads.

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Implement Azure Policy, private networking, logging, audit, and security monitoring requirements.

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Collaborate with Purview and compliance teams on data classification, DLP, retention, and information-protection controls.

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Conduct design reviews, risk assessments, and control validation with engineering and customer security stakeholders.

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Develop clear security standards and operational procedures that delivery and O&M teams can execute.

Required For This Opportunity

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6+ years in Microsoft cloud security or identity engineering.

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Hands-on expertise with Entra ID, Conditional Access, RBAC, PIM, Azure Policy, and secure Azure networking.

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Experience implementing Microsoft Purview, M365 security, or data-protection controls.

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Working knowledge of NIST-based controls and regulated-environment delivery.

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Ability to balance secure design with practical adoption and delivery outcomes.

Nice to Have Skills

- Azure Government or GCC High experience.

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Microsoft security certifications such as SC-300, SC-100, or SC-200.

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AI-security,