Azure Web Services Cloud Administrator - Mid

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: Designs complex network and hybrid‑cloud solutions; implements security controls, DR/BCP, and automated IaC with deployment pipelines; performs advanced performance tuning.

• Work & Complexity: Solves complex issues, designs and delivers new infrastructure solutions, performs capacity planning, and leads advanced automation initiatives.

• Quality & Independence: Drives root‑cause analysis, enforces best practices and QA on changes, optimizes for reliability and user experience; operates with high autonomy.

• Teamwork & Communication: Leads cross‑functional efforts, mentors juniors, facilitates knowledge transfer, and aligns stakeholders with technical plans.

• Consulting & Engagement: Provides strategic input on infrastructure initiatives, recommends advanced technologies, and manages vendor relationships.

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

• Maintains smooth operation of different cloud-based systems, including coordination with network administrators.

• Sets up administrator and service accounts, maintains system documentation for cloud infrastructure and tenant inventory, tunes system performance, installs system wide software and allocates mass storage space.

• Respond to large-scale events involving instantiation of virtual resources such VMs and storage.

• Fix critical software and system failures.

• Propose, drive and implement technical solutions for automation, efficiency and scalability.

• Develop/improve tools, reports, and processes to monitor the health of cloud environment.

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

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

• Certifications: IAT-2, 1 or more cloud certifications.

• Active Secret clearance (or higher).

• Experience working in regulated environments and following secure engineering / documentation practices.

• Experience supporting DoD/IC programs and mission systems.

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.

Originally posted on Himalayas