Linux Automation Administrator

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.

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.

This position is contingent upon contract award. We are currently pursuing a proposal and are seeking qualified candidates to include in our submission and identify candidates for future hiring needs on the program once awarded. 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 one to join AIS as a Lead Infrastructure Engineer.

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.

Directs cross-team programs, performs advanced tuning, implements high availability/failover architectures, leads audits, plans growth, and manages budgets.

Delivers high-quality outcomes, sets team standards, introduces innovative solutions, and makes high-impact decisions.

Leads the engineering team, develops talent, resolves conflicts, and communicates effectively with senior leadership and stakeholders.

Provides high-level consulting to leadership, builds roadmaps, negotiates vendor contracts, and sponsors innovation initiatives.

The successful candidate will contribute to protecting national security interests by leveraging technical expertise, analytical skills, and innovative problem-solving to address complex cyber challenges.

AIS is seeking a Linux Automation Administrator for a Federal Contract as part of a highly talented, highly motivated, and high-performing team. This position offers a unique opportunity to work at the forefront of cyber investigations, digital forensics, cyber threat analysis, and mission support in a dynamic and collaborative environment.

Provision, manage, and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Ubuntu servers across several internet-connected and internet-disconnected networks. Develop, utilize, and maintain Ansible Playbooks to secure, patch, and configure Linux servers. Manage Kubernetes clusters as well as the workloads deployed on the clusters. Manage and configure connected services such as network adapters, storage, and firewalls. Deploy, configure, and support monitoring capabilities to detect anomalous conditions or service disruptions.

Investigate service disruptions and provide root cause analysis reports and implement additional steps to prevent subsequent issues. Support deployments of new hardware and software applications and appliances.

Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of experience or a Master’s degree and 3 year of experience. A degree in one of the following fields is highly desired:
Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or Cybersecurity. However, an…