Junior AWS Software Engineer

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.

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.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Applies basics of one or more languages (e.g., C#/Java/Python), data structures and algorithms, source control, design patterns, and the software development lifecycle. Troubleshoots own code and participates in daily scrum activities.

• Work & Complexity: Tackles well-scoped tasks, follows established practices, and analyzes routine situations to deliver basic functional solutions.

• Quality & Independence: Works under close supervision, follows detailed instructions, documents work, manages time, and seeks guidance to meet deadlines.

• Teamwork & Communication: Participates in team discussions, responds to coaching, builds internal relationships, and explains ideas to gather feedback.

• Consulting & Engagement: Learns when to apply engineering versus consulting skills; may share basic technical content (blogs/talks) to support team visibility.

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

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

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

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

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

• Utilizes trends andmetrics to identify opportunities for improvements within existing frameworks, tools andprocesses.

• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience developing, testing, or maintaining software applications in AWSbased environments.

• Hands-on experience with core AWS services and cloudnative development concepts, including compute, storage, networking, and basic security controls.

• Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages commonly used in cloud environments (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript, or similar).

• Familiarity with secure coding practices, CI/CD pipelines, version control, and supporting software delivery in regulated or mission environments.

• Active Secret clearance or higher, with ability to support federal and missioncritical programs.

• IAT Level II certification (DoD 8570/8140 compliant) and one or more cloud certifications (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP).

• Experience supporting DoD/IC programs and mission systems.

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