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 seeking a highly capable Microsoft Teams Rooms AV/VTC Engineer to lead the design and standardization of conference room technology solutions supporting Microsoft Teams Rooms deployments across a range of room types and mission needs. This role is responsible for selecting and defining the appropriate hardware footprints for various room configurations, ensuring that audiovisual (AV), video teleconferencing (VTC), and Microsoft Teams Rooms solutions are reliable, supportable, secure, and aligned to user experience requirements.
Assess business, functional, and technical requirements for conference rooms, collaboration spaces, boardrooms, training rooms, and specialty meeting environments.
Define and standardize hardware footprints for multiple Microsoft Teams Rooms configurations, including displays, cameras, microphones, speakers, room controllers, DSPs, switching, cabling, compute, and peripheral components.
Develop room design standards and reference architectures that account for room size, acoustic conditions, furniture layouts, user workflows, and collaboration requirements.
Evaluate and recommend AV and VTC hardware platforms compatible with Microsoft Teams Rooms and aligned to enterprise support, lifecycle, and budget considerations.
Design end-to-end Microsoft Teams Rooms solutions, including logical configuration, physical room integration, device interoperability, and management considerations.
Configure and support Microsoft Teams Rooms systems, including room accounts, device settings, peripherals, and integration with Microsoft 365 and Teams administration frameworks.
Lead or support installation, implementation, testing, and cutover activities for conference room deployments.
Troubleshoot AV, VTC, and Teams Rooms performance issues spanning audio quality, video quality, room control, device connectivity, user experience, and service integration.
Collaborate with network, collaboration, identity, endpoint, facilities, and security teams to ensure room solutions meet enterprise standards and operational requirements.
Produce and maintain design documents, bill of materials, implementation guides, standard operating procedures, as-built diagrams, and support documentation.
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Audiovisual Technology, Telecommunications, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of experience in enterprise AV, VTC, unified communications, or collaboration engineering roles.
Demonstrated experience designing and deploying Microsoft Teams Rooms solutions in conference room environments.
Strong knowledge of AV fundamentals, including room acoustics, microphone coverage, speaker placement, DSP concepts, signal flow, switching, control systems, and display technologies.
Strong knowledge of VTC concepts, including room-based conferencing, camera framing, codec/peripheral behavior, media quality considerations, and meeting room interoperability.
Hands-on experience selecting and integrating AV hardware for a variety of room footprints and use cases.
Experience configuring Microsoft Teams Rooms devices and integrating them with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 services.
Experience supporting large-scale Microsoft Teams Rooms rollouts across multiple facilities or campuses.
Familiarity with Teams Admin Center, Teams Rooms Pro management capabilities, and device monitoring platforms.
Experience with AV/VTC vendors and ecosystems such as Logitech, Poly, Yealink, Crestron, Extron, Shure, Biamp, Neat, Cisco, or similar.
Understanding of structured cabling, PoE, switching, QoS, and network requirements for room-based collaboration technologies.
Experience with secure or regulated environments where standardization, documentation, and controlled deployment practices are critical.
Relevant certifications in AV, collaboration, or Microsoft technologies are a plus.
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