Senior Cloud Architect

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
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  Your contributions directly impact the company's success, and you share in its achievements.
• Continuous Learning
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  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 Software Engineer.

• 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.
• Work & Complexity: Tackles complex problems with thorough analysis, manages cross-functional delivery, and improves system reliability and scalability.
• Quality & Independence: Consistently meets deadlines even under challenging conditions, enforces standards through detailed reviews, and establishes productivity benchmarks for the team.
• Teamwork & Communication: Provides functional leadership by setting objectives, organizing resources, resolving conflicts, and engaging confidently with both internal and external stakeholders.
• 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 Senior Cloud Architect.

AIS is supporting a new project focused on architecture and infrastructure services in the Boston/Hanscom area to support federal mission delivery. Roles are primarily remote, with Massachusetts candidates preferred and availability targeted for March/April.

• Responsible for new cloud architecture design, development and integration of new architectural features into existing cloud infrastructures while maintaining the integrity and security of enterprise-wide cyber systems and networks.
• Lead multi-disciplined teams in the design and implementation of cybersecurity system architecture.
• Able to apply cyber security standards, directives, guidance and policies to a cloud architectural framework.
• Compile industry best practices and lessons learned into future iterations and new designs for the cloud hosting environment.
• Provide broad based experience in the systems engineering lifecycle and specific cyber security initiatives relating to cloud architectural design and development.
• Resolve cloud architecture implementation issues during integration and test. Interface with internal and external entities for various solution related activities.
• Ability to develop and deliver end-to-end, complex, enterprise level solutions that meet current and future capability requirements.
• Design integrated and streamlined streamlining solutions for multiple customers undertaking that provide technical and cost benefits through scaling and other attributes

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of relevant experience supporting enterprise cloud and/or infrastructure environments.
• Certifications:
  
  IAT-2, IAT-1 or more cloud certifications.
• Able to obtain a minimum of a Secret security clearance; active Secret preferred.
• Experience…