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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.\nEmployee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.\n\nContinuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.\n\nInclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.\n\nMission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.\n\nWhat are we looking for?\nAt 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.\nWorking@AIS\nAt 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 Lead Software Engineer.\nCore Knowledge & Skills: Operates independently or as a team lead, selects appropriate persistence technologies (e.g., EF, Dapper), defines source control strategies, and designs subsystem infrastructure.\n\nWork & Complexity: Tackles complex problems with thorough analysis, manages cross-functional delivery, and improves system reliability and scalability.\n\nQuality & Independence: Consistently meets deadlines even under challenging conditions, enforces standards through detailed reviews, and establishes productivity benchmarks for the team.\n\nTeamwork & Communication: Provides functional leadership by setting objectives, organizing resources, resolving conflicts, and engaging confidently with both internal and external stakeholders.\n\nConsulting & Engagement: Troubleshoots advanced client issues, supports requirements gathering, and contributes to vendor presentations or proposal activities.\n\nAs your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a AI Foundry Platform Engineer.\n\nProject Summary\nAIS is seeking an AI Foundry Platform Engineer to build, secure, and operate the Azure Government AI platform that enables governed use of Azure AI Foundry and approved generative AI models. This engineer converts architecture into repeatable platform capabilities and reliable developer experiences.\nKey Responsibilities\nConfigure and support Azure AI Foundry projects, model deployments, quotas, access controls, and telemetry.\n\nImplement private networking, private endpoints, DNS, managed identities, Key Vault integration, and role-based access.\n\nBuild monitoring and reporting for usage, token consumption, capacity, cost allocation, safety events, and service health.\n\nSupport secure integration between AI services, developer tools, AVD/Codex access patterns, and approved enterprise systems.\n\nAutomate environment configuration and promote repeatable deployment patterns using approved infrastructure and release practices.\n\nCreate operational runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and knowledge-transfer materials for platform support teams.\n\nRequired For This Opportunity\n5+ years of Azure engineering experience, including networking, identity, monitoring, and secure PaaS delivery.\n\nHands-on experience with Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure Machine Learning, or similar AI application platforms.\n\nExperience with Entra ID, managed identities, private endpoints, Key Vault, Log Analytics, and Azure Cost Management.\n\nAbility to troubleshoot across application, network, identity, and cloud-platform layers.\n\nStrong scripting or automation capability using PowerShell, Azure CLI, Python, or equivalent.\n\nNice to Have Skills\nAzure Government or regulated-environment delivery experience.\n\nExperience with LLM observability, AI safety controls, prompt management, or token governance.\n\nAzure Administrator or Azure Developer certification.\n\nAt AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team member.\n\nThe targeted base salary range for this role is $117,000-$177,000 per year. 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