Senior Cloud Engineer - On-Site Security Clearance

Position: Senior Cloud Engineer - On-Site with Security Clearance
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 Lead Infrastructure Engineer.
* Core Knowledge &

Skills:

Aligns infrastructure strategy to business goals, leads large projects, applies compliance frameworks, designs high availability/disaster recovery and performance optimization patterns, and shapes deployment pipeline design.

* Work & Complexity:
Directs cross-team programs, performs advanced tuning, implements high availability/failover architectures, leads audits, plans growth, and manages budgets.

* Quality & Independence:
Delivers high-quality outcomes, sets team standards, introduces innovative solutions, and makes high-impact decisions.

* Teamwork & Communication:
Leads the engineering team, develops talent, resolves conflicts, and communicates effectively with senior leadership and stakeholders.

* Consulting & Engagement:
Provides high-level consulting to leadership, builds roadmaps, negotiates vendor contracts, and sponsors innovation initiatives. As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Senior Cloud Engineer - On-Site. Senior Cloud Engineer - Shape the Future of Cloud Innovation Are you ready to take your cloud engineering expertise to the next level? As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you'll work with cutting-edge cloud and data technologies to streamline mission-critical services.

Join a team of forward-thinking professionals who push boundaries and deliver solutions that make a real impact. This is an opportunity to be part of a high-impact, client-facing team in Lorton, VA, working directly with mission-critical operations. If you thrive in collaborative environments, embrace problem-solving, and want to shape the future of cloud technology, this role is for you! What You'll Be Doing:
* Perform the Enclave Administrator (EA) role on behalf of the Customer, including deployment and maintenance of Mission Enclave infrastructure and all application-related responsibilities on Mission Enclave environment.

* System health monitoring include Azure Solution System Health, Program Application availability, and Capacity Management.

* Operational System Management (trouble tickets) - input, re-route, field, and escalate as appropriate.

* Conduct appropriate troubleshooting and remediation activities to include coordinating with System Owners, Product Team, and Migration Team for issues and coordinating with the appropriate team and/or personnel.

* Participate in planning sessions, and technical presentations, with customer project leads and staff.

* Analyze technical requirements and develop effective solutions.

* Complete regular maintenance on all systems / applications. This includes regular patching and vulnerability remediation and addressing end of service/end of life replacements.

* Complete approved configuration updates/changes and escalate where required if high-level architectural updates are needed.

* Sets up and delegates application-related responsibilities to Customer Mission Applications Administrator (MAA) role, which we provide to our Customer and their Mission Partners so they can administer applications within their enclave.

* Work closely with Customer as shared technical lead. Enable development, analysis, and deployment to be delivered on schedule and in line with Customer requirements. Location and Travel Details:
This opportunity is client facing in the Lorton, VA area and requires full onsite presence. Security Clearance and Citizenship Requirements:
* Must have and maintain an active Top-Secret clearance with SCI eligibility (TS/SCI) Employment is contingent upon the candidate renewing or obtaining the CompTIA Security+ certification (or higher-level security credential) within the first 30 days of onboarding and renewing or obtaining the…