Senior Microsoft Cloud Engineer - Data Sharing & B2B

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, drives client success, and empowers 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.

At AIS, we’re looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

At AIS, we are dedicated to providing 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 as a Lead Infrastructure Engineer.

• Core Knowledge &
  
  Skills:
  
  Align infrastructure strategy to business goals, lead large projects, apply compliance frameworks, design high‑availability/disaster‑recovery and performance‑optimization patterns, and shape deployment‑pipeline design.
• Work & Complexity:
  Direct cross‑team programs, perform advanced tuning, implement high‑availability/failover architectures, lead audits, plan growth, and manage budgets.
• Quality & Independence:
  Deliver high‑quality outcomes, set team standards, introduce innovative solutions, and make high‑impact decisions.
• Teamwork & Communication:
  Lead the engineering team, develop talent, resolve conflicts, and communicate effectively with senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Consulting & Engagement:
  Provide high‑level consulting to leadership, build roadmaps, negotiate vendor contracts, and sponsor innovation initiatives.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Senior Microsoft Cloud Engineer – Data Sharing & B2B.

AIS is seeking a Senior Microsoft Cloud Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and ongoing optimization of secure external collaboration capabilities across the Microsoft cloud ecosystem. This role is responsible for configuring and maintaining Azure B2B / Microsoft Entra External s, implementing identity and data protection controls in Microsoft Entra and Microsoft Purview, designing secure access patterns for SharePoint‑based extranets, and defining enterprise security controls for encrypted email, Conditional Access, Power Platform solutions, and Power BI content.

• Design, configure, and maintain Microsoft Entra B2B collaboration and cross‑tenant access settings to support secure partner and guest access to enterprise applications, collaboration workloads, and external‑facing business solutions.
• Engineer and administer external identity controls including invitation workflows, trust settings, guest lifecycle processes, access‑review support, and secure onboarding/offboarding patterns for third‑party users.
• Design and implement security architecture for external access to SharePoint extranets.
• Define and implement Microsoft Purview Information Protection controls including sensitivity labels, encryption, data‑handling rules, and integration points with DLP and collaboration workloads.
• Design and implement Microsoft Purview Message Encryption and related encrypted mail protections for secure communication with external recipients.
• Design, test, and tune Conditional Access policies to govern external access based on user, device, application, session, location, risk, and authentication context.
• Build secure access patterns for Power Platform applications, flows, and connectors through environment strategy, role design, data policies, connector governance, and identity controls.
• Define and implement security controls…