Data 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:
  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.

For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as an Infrastructure Engineer.

• Core Knowledge &
  
  Skills:
  
  Manages routing/switching and network security, multi‑OS environments, virtualization (e.g., VMware/Hyper‑V), core cloud services, and release of IaC via pipelines; automates common admin tasks.
• Work & Complexity:
  Plans and executes upgrades/migrations, configures network devices and services, responds to incidents, monitors performance, and manages resources.
• Quality & Independence:
  Implements proactive monitoring, produces accurate documentation, improves processes, and works independently within project scope.
• Teamwork & Communication:
  Partners with peer teams, shares knowledge, coordinates changes, reports progress, and supports/train users.
• Consulting & Engagement:
  Advises internal teams on solutions and tools, evaluates technologies, recommends optimizations, and coordinates vendor support.

As a Data Engineer, you will collaborate with our clients to support and optimize an Azure‑based container platform, with a primary focus on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This role is responsible for ensuring the stability, performance, and security of our cloud‑native environments, including specialized platforms such as the POSIT (RStudio) ecosystem. The engineer will serve as a trusted subject matter expert across multiple infrastructure domains—networking, ingress, DNS, certificates, and firewall processes—while providing hands‑on support and troubleshooting across application and platform layers.

• Bring strong expertise in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) operations and troubleshooting, including hands‑on experience with Azure Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC) and integration with Azure Application Gateway v2.
• Provide operational support for the POSIT (RStudio) environment running within AKS clusters, including sustained support for applications hosted within the Posit platform.
• Contribute significant procedural knowledge related to firewall request workflows, DNS processes, and certificate lifecycle management, frequently executing and managing these processes on behalf of other teams.
• Apply general troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis skills to resolve complex platform, infrastructure, and application‑related issues.

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or another scientific/technical discipline.
• Possess at least a CompTIA Security+ certification or an equivalent certification.
• Minimum of three years of Microsoft Azure experience deploying highly available, scalable, and secure applications.
• Demonstrated expertise in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) operations and troubleshooting, including hands‑on experience with Azure Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC) and seamless integration with Azure Application Gateway v2.
• Proficient understanding of firewall request workflows, DNS management processes, and certificate lifecycle management.
• General knowledge of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), AKS applications, and POSIT environments.
• Scripting experience…