Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

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
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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 Dev Ops Engineer.

• Core Knowledge &
  
  Skills:
  
  Designs large-scale CI/CD architectures, applies advanced cloud and security patterns, and builds reusable automation frameworks.
• Work & Complexity: Oversees reliability and scalability initiatives, manages cross-functional efforts to resolve high-impact issues, and drives platform standardization.
• Quality & Independence: Defines team processes and standards, conducts rigorous code and infrastructure reviews, and enforces best practices for monitoring and incident response.
• Teamwork & Communication: Guides team execution, develops talent, resolves conflict, and aligns cross-team work with organizational priorities.
• Consulting & Engagement: Provides strategic consulting on Dev Ops initiatives, leads improvement programs, and partners with leadership on roadmap decisions.

AIS is supporting a new Leidos account focused on architecture and infrastructure services in the Boston/Hanscom area. This is a subcontract engagement (approximately 15% workshare) with significant near‑term hiring demand (~50 roles) to support federal mission delivery. Roles are primarily remote, with Massachusetts candidates preferred and availability targeted for March/April.

• Develops strategy and integration methodology around design, development and implementation of cloud based solutions.
• Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.
• Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies for hardware and software specifications.
• Utilize trends and metrics to identify opportunities for improvements within existing frameworks, tools and processes.
• Responsible for systems functionality, performance, and configurations issues.
• Enables the quick development and release of changes and bug‑fixes on an as‑required basis and incorporation of feedback from developers/users.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid, reliable releases and rollbacks.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation to improve consistency and scalability.

• 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, 1 or more cloud certifications.
• Able to obtain a minimum of a Secret security clearance; active Secret preferred.
• Experience working in regulated environments and following secure engineering / documentation practices.

• Active Secret clearance (or higher).
• Massachusetts-based candidate or ability to support periodic on‑site needs at Leidos sites in Concord or Tewksbury, MA.
• Experience supporting DoD/IC programs…