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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 DevOps Engineer.\nCore Knowledge & Skills: Designs large-scale CI/CD architectures, applies advanced cloud and security patterns, and builds reusable automation frameworks.\n\nWork & Complexity: Oversees reliability and scalability initiatives, manages cross-functional efforts to resolve high-impact issues, and drives platform standardization.\n\nQuality & Independence: Defines team processes and standards, conducts rigorous code and infrastructure reviews, and enforces best practices for monitoring and incident response.\n\nTeamwork & Communication: Guides team execution, develops talent, resolves conflict, and aligns cross-team work with organizational priorities.\n\nConsulting & Engagement: Provides strategic consulting on DevOps initiatives, leads improvement programs, and partners with leadership on roadmap decisions.\n\nAs your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Azure Cloud Engineer.\n\nAIS is seeking an Azure Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer to support the design, implementation, and operation of cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. 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