Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Sr.

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: 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.

The Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Sr is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing secure, scalable cloud infrastructure solutions within the Microsoft Azure platform. This role serves as a technical leader supporting cloud adoption, modernization, and operational excellence across enterprise environments.

The engineer will partner with development, security, and IT operations teams to deliver highly available and compliant cloud solutions that align with mission and business objectives. This role requires deep expertise in Azure architecture, networking, automation, and security, along with the ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure challenges in a Top Secret environment.

• Design, implement, and manage scalable and secure cloud infrastructure solutions in Microsoft Azure.

• Provision and configure Azure resources, including virtual machines, storage accounts, virtual networks, and associated services.

• Develop and maintain automated deployment pipelines and workflows using Azure DevOps, ARM templates/Bicep, PowerShell, or similar tools.

• Monitor cloud environments to ensure optimal performance, scalability, availability, and cost efficiency.

• Implement and enforce cloud security best practices, including identity management, network security, and compliance controls.

• Collaborate with development and operations teams to support application deployment, integration, and lifecycle management.

• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, networking, and performance issues within Azure environments.

• Support hybrid cloud integrations and connectivity between on-premises and cloud environments.

• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and best practices to teams adopting Azure services.

• Maintain documentation of cloud architecture, configurations, and operational procedures.

• Stay current with emerging Azure technologies and recommend improvements to enhance platform capabilities.

• Active Top Secret security clearance.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related roles.

• Hands-on experience designing and deploying solutions in Microsoft Azure.

• Strong knowledge of Azure networking concepts, including VNets, NSGs, firewalls, VPNs, and ExpressRoute.

• Experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using ARM templates, Bicep, Terraform, or similar tools.

• Proficiency in scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python.

• Experience implementing cloud security best practices and maintaining compliant environments.

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in cross-functional environments.

• Microsoft certifications such as:

  • Azure Solutions Architect Expert

  • Azure Administrator Associate

  • Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS).

• Familiarity with Zero Trust architecture principles and identity-driven security models.

• Experience with hybrid cloud architectures and integration with on-premises systems.

• Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

• Exposure to federal compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST, FedRAMP, RMF/ATO processes).

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.