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 Associate Infrastructure Engineer.


• Core Knowledge & Skills: Applies fundamentals of networking, OS administration (Windows/Linux), basic cloud concepts, scripting (PowerShell/Bash), Git, and IaC; performs routine installs, updates, backups, monitoring, and documented troubleshooting under guidance.

• Work & Complexity: Handles well‑defined maintenance and support tasks; resolves straightforward incidents; creates basic infrastructure documentation.

• Quality & Independence: Follows standards and SOPs, executes accurately and on time, escalates appropriately; operates with limited decision latitude while focusing on learning.

• Teamwork & Communication: Supports senior engineers, collaborates across IT, communicates status, and documents changes; assists users and incorporates feedback.

• Consulting & Engagement: Provides basic technical assistance, shares emerging best practices, suggests small process improvements, and coordinates with vendors on simple issues.


As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Azure/M365 O&M Engineer.



Project Summary

AIS is seeking an Azure/M365 Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Engineer to provide dependable day-to-day operations, monitoring, change implementation, and incident response for Azure and/or Microsoft 365 services delivered to the customer.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor and maintain Azure and M365 services, including identity, networking, compute, storage, collaboration, governance, and platform monitoring components.
• Investigate and resolve incidents, service requests, recurring problems, and performance issues in accordance with agreed service levels.·       
• Implement approved changes, maintain configuration documentation, and support release and maintenance activities.
• Perform backup, recovery, access, health-check, and capacity-management activities as assigned.
• Create and refine runbooks, knowledge articles, dashboards, and operational reports.
• Work closely with project teams during service transition and early-life support.

Required For This Opportunity

• 4+ years in Azure, Microsoft 365, or enterprise cloud operations.
• Experience with Entra ID, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Azure networking, and M365 administration.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across identity, network, endpoint, and application service layers.
• Experience working in ticketing, change-control, and knowledge-management processes.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and communicate effectively with users and engineers.

Nice to Have Skills

• Azure Government, GCC High, or NIST-based environment experience.
• Azure Administrator or Microsoft 365 Administrator certification.
• Experience with Teamcenter, SharePoint, Exchange Online, or Purview operations.



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 $77,000-$117,000 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.



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