Senior Microsoft Cloud Engineer - Data Sharing & B2B

Why AIS?

When you join AIS, you're joining a mission-driven team that is 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
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  Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

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.

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 Infrastructure Engineer.

• Core Knowledge &
  
  Skills:
  
  Aligns infrastructure strategy to business goals, leads large projects, applies compliance frameworks, designs high availability/disaster recovery and performance optimization patterns, and shapes deployment pipeline design.
• Work & Complexity: Directs cross-team programs, performs advanced tuning, implements high availability/failover architectures, leads audits, plans growth, and manages budgets.
• Quality & Independence: Delivers high-quality outcomes, sets team standards, introduces innovative solutions, and makes high-impact decisions.
• Teamwork & Communication: Leads the engineering team, develops talent, resolves conflicts, and communicates effectively with senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Consulting & Engagement: Provides high-level consulting to leadership, builds roadmaps, negotiates vendor contracts, and sponsors 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 reviews support, and secure onboarding/offboarding patterns for third-party users.
• Design and implement security architecture for external access to SharePoint extranets, including authentication patterns, authorization boundaries,siteand content protection models, sharing restrictions, and monitoring requirements.
• 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, including policy-based encryption use cases and operational support models.
• Design, test, and tune Conditional Access policies to govern external access based on user, device, application, session, location, risk, and…