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Cloud Systems Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 2+ years of relevant experience supporting enterprise AWS cloud and/or infrastructure environments.
  • Certifications: IAT-2 and/or one or more cloud certifications within 6 months of hire.
  • Active Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

  • Drives the stability and sustainability of cloud-based networks and software systems for scalable and reliable operations.
  • Performs system integration, verification and validation, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.
  • Creates proactive engineering mechanisms to manage the health of distributed virtual machines.
  • Utilizes trends and metrics to identify opportunities for improvements within existing frameworks, tools, and processes.

About the company

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AIS (Applied Information Sciences)

AIS (Applied Information Sciences) specializes in IT transformation and AI solutions for large commercial and federal enterprises, delivering compliant and transformative cloud and data solutions that speed up time to value, sunset legacy technology, and accelerate innovation. Our expertise lies in the highly regulated environments leading migration and modernization, DevSecOps, security and compliance, custom app development, and data intelligence. Our customers include a broad range of organizations, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, and include state and local governments as well as defense and national security agencies. Our analysis-driven approach to solving business problems—combined with our commitment to deadlines and budgets—results in successful projects and long-term relationships with our clients. We're a leading Microsoft cloud partner with proven capabilities and a track record of success, holding 14 Advanced Specializations, 15 competencies, and Solutions Partner Designations for Infrastructure, Digital & App Innovation, Data & AI, Security, Business Apps, and Modern Work. Founded in 1982, we are headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with a development center in Hyderabad, India. AIS employs a transatlantic distributed employee base of 1,000. For more information.

Company details

Company size501 - 1000

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Job description

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.

 

Working@AIS

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



Project Summary

AIS is supporting federal customer with a program focused on architecture and infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drives the stability and sustainability of the cloud-based networks, software systems for scaling and reliable operations.

  • Performs system integration, verification and validation and 
    supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.

  • Creates proactive engineering mechanisms that will enable the team to manage the health of a number of distributed VMs. 

  • Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies for hardware and software specifications.

  • Utilizes trends and metrics to identify opportunities for improvements within existing frameworks, tools and processes.

Required For This Opportunity

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

  • 2+ years of relevant experience supporting enterprise AWS cloud and/or infrastructure environments.

  • Certifications: IAT-2, 1 or more cloud certifications within 6 months of hire.

  • Active Secret clearance.

Nice to Have Skills

  • Experience supporting DoD/IC programs and mission systems.



At AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team member.

The targeted base salary range for this role is $89,000-$134,000 per year. Please note that this range is provided as a guideline and the final offer will be based on several factors, including but not limited to, skillset and competencies, level of experience, education, certifications, and location.

We value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process.



Applied Information Sciences does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs.

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