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:
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.

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.

What you will be doing? 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 individual to join AIS as a Senior Infrastructure Architect.

• Sets enterprise‑level infrastructure strategy
• leads global architectures and integrations
• manages worldwide environments
• is recognized externally as a thought leader

• Oversees multi‑region programs, coordinates global delivery, applies analytics to predict/mitigate issues, and steers strategic vendor partnerships

• Establishes visionary, organization‑wide standards
• ensures excellence on large‑scale initiatives
• drives sustainable, future‑ready practices with full autonomy

• Leads enterprise communication of strategy, aligns global stakeholders, mentors next‑generation leaders, and represents the organization in industry forums

• Advises executives on strategy and vision, expands external offerings and partnerships, and shapes long‑term technology direction and market influence

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Cloud Architect.

The Cloud Architect establishes the cloud foundation for a large-scale enterprise cloud migration program moving applications from on‑premises data centers to Azure and AWS. The role assesses cloud readiness, sets up the migration environment, and defines the architecture standards, guardrails, and migration patterns the migration teams follow. The role is remote.

• Assesses the readiness of target Azure and AWS environments and core cloud services to support migration
• Establishes the migration environment and infrastructure the migration teams use
• Defines landing zone, target architecture, and security standards and guardrails for migrated workloads
• Develops reusable migration patterns and infrastructure as code for consistent target deployments
• Identifies, documents, and remediates cloud environment gaps that would block migration
• Provides AWS and Azure architecture leadership and guidance to migration teams and specialists
• Documents architecture decisions and transfers standards and patterns to migration teams and operations staff

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• Minimum ten years of cloud or infrastructure architecture and engineering experience
• Hands‑on experience…