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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.\nWhat you will be doing?\nThis position is contingent upon contract award. We are currently pursuing a proposal and are seeking qualified candidates to include in our submission and identify candidates for future hiring needs on the program once awarded.\n\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 Senior Infrastructure Architect.\nCore Knowledge & Skills: Sets enterprise-level infrastructure strategy; leads global architectures and integrations; manages worldwide environments; is recognized externally as a thought leader.\n\nWork & Complexity: Oversees multi-region programs, coordinates global delivery, applies analytics to predict/mitigate issues, and steers strategic vendor partnerships.\n\nQuality & Independence: Establishes visionary, organization-wide standards; ensures excellence on large-scale initiatives; drives sustainable, future-ready practices with full autonomy.\n\nTeamwork & Communication: Leads enterprise communication of strategy, aligns global stakeholders, mentors next-generation leaders, and represents the organization in industry forums.\n\nConsulting & Engagement: Advises executives on strategy and vision, expands external offerings and partnerships, and shapes long-term technology direction and market influence.\n\nAs your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Cloud Architect.\n\nProject Summary\nThe Cloud Architect establishes the cloud foundation for a large-scale enterprise cloud migration program moving applications from on-premises data centers to Azure and AWS. The role assesses cloud readiness, sets up the migration environment, and defines the architecture standards, guardrails, and migration patterns the migration teams follow. The role is remote.\nKey Responsibilities\nAssesses the readiness of target Azure and AWS environments and core cloud services to support migration.\nEstablishes the migration environment and infrastructure the migration teams use.\nDefines landing zone, target architecture, and security standards and guardrails for migrated workloads.\nDevelops reusable migration patterns and infrastructure as code for consistent target deployments.\nIdentifies, documents, and remediates cloud environment gaps that would block migration.\nProvides AWS and Azure architecture leadership and guidance to migration teams and specialists.\nDocuments architecture decisions and transfers standards and patterns to migration teams and operations staff\nRequired For This Opportunity\nUS Citizen\nMinimum ten years of cloud or infrastructure architecture and engineering experience\nHands-on experience designing and implementing architectures in both Azure and AWS\nExperience designing landing zones, cloud governance, and security guardrails for enterprise environments\nExperience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, Bicep, or CloudFormation\nWorks on increasingly complex problems, exercises independent judgment, and provides direction and coordination for a multi-disciplinary team\nNice to Have Skills\nExperience with Azure Government or AWS GovCloud environments\nAzure Solutions Architect Expert or AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification\nExperience with large-scale data center migrations to the cloud· Experience with security frameworks such as NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, or CMMC\nFederal program delivery experience\nExperience using GitHub and GitHub Copilot for source control and AI-assisted development\nFamiliarity with AI technologies and their practical use in IT delivery or cloud environments\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 $154,000-$232,000 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.\n\nWe value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process.\n\nApplied 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. 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