Cloud Systems Engineer 4
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 Infrastructure Engineer.
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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.
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Work & Complexity: Plans and executes upgrades/migrations, configures network devices and services, responds to incidents, monitors performance, and manages resources.
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Quality & Independence: Implements proactive monitoring, produces accurate documentation, improves processes, and works independently within project scope.
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Teamwork & Communication: Partners with peer teams, shares knowledge, coordinates changes, reports progress, and supports/train users.
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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 Cloud Systems Engineer 4. Project Summary
AIS is supporting federal customer with a program focused on architecture and infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
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Drives the stability and sustainability of the cloud-based networks, software systems for scaling and reliable operations.
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Performs system integration, verification and validation and
supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.
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Creates proactive engineering mechanisms that will enable the team to manage the health of a number of distributed VMs.
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Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies for hardware and software specifications.
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Utilizes trends and metrics to identify opportunities for improvements within existing frameworks, tools and processes.
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Responsible for systems functionality, performance, and configurations issues.
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Considered an emerging authority, who applies extensive technical expertise.
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Develops technical solutions to complex problems.
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Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignment.
Required For This Opportunity
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Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
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8 years of relevant experience supporting enterprise cloud and/or infrastructure environments.
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Certifications: IAT-2, 1 or more cloud certifications within 6 months of hire.
- Active Secret clearance.
Nice to Have Skills
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Experience supporting DoD/IC programs and mission systems.
At AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contribu