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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 Lead Infrastructure Engineer.\nCore Knowledge & Skills: Aligns infrastructure strategy to business goals, leads large projects, applies compliance frameworks, designs high availability/disaster recovery and performance optimization patterns, and shapes deployment pipeline design.\n\nWork & Complexity: Directs cross-team programs, performs advanced tuning, implements high availability/failover architectures, leads audits, plans growth, and manages budgets.\n\nQuality & Independence: Delivers high-quality outcomes, sets team standards, introduces innovative solutions, and makes high-impact decisions.\n\nTeamwork & Communication: Leads the engineering team, develops talent, resolves conflicts, and communicates effectively with senior leadership and stakeholders.\n\nConsulting & Engagement: Provides high-level consulting to leadership, builds roadmaps, negotiates vendor contracts, and sponsors innovation initiatives.\n\nAs your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Cloud Migration Engineer II.\n\nProject Summary\nThe Cloud Migration Engineer II is a senior hands-on engineer who owns moderate-to-high complexity and multi-tier application migrations from on-premises data centers to Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The role independently assesses technical readiness, selects and adapts approved migration patterns, coordinates technical execution, resolves cross-domain issues, and ensures that migration, validation, rollback, and stabilization activities are completed safely and consistently. The role remains hands-on and is not a people-manager or architect position. The role is remote.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwns moderate-to-high complexity or multi-tier application migrations from technical assessment through cutover, rollback, stabilization, and handoff.\nAnalyzes incomplete application and infrastructure information, validates complex dependencies and readiness risks, and recommends remediation before migration.\nSelects and adapts approved Azure and AWS migration patterns and runbooks within program guardrails to address application-specific requirements.\nReviews target-environment configuration and resolves design or integration issues involving compute, Windows and Linux operating systems, networking, storage, virtualization, identity, security, and application services.\nCoordinates technical migration execution, including replication, synchronization, shutdown and startup sequencing, decision points, specialist engagement, escalation, cutover, and rollback activities.\nLeads diagnosis and resolution of cross-domain migration issues and determines when an architect or shared engineering specialist must be engaged.\nReviews migration readiness, runbooks, automation, validation results, technical evidence, and rollback viability before key migration decisions.\nDevelops or improves reusable PowerShell, Bash, Python, infrastructure-as-code, and migration automation assets using approved GitHub repositories and program standards.\nAuthors or approves runbooks and technical procedures for complex migration patterns and identifies systemic improvements to migration-factory methods, automation, guardrails, and controls. \nGuides Cloud Migration Engineer I staff, reviews technical work, and serves as a technical escalation point without acting as a people manager.\nRequired For This Opportunity\nUS Citizen\nMinimum five years of progressively responsible infrastructure engineering, systems administration, cloud engineering, or migration experience, including independently leading complex server or application migrations\nDemonstrated ability to assess technical readiness, analyze incomplete dependency information, select among approved migration approaches, and adapt runbooks for application-specific requirements\nHands-on experience with Azure and/or AWS cloud environments, including target configuration, migration tooling, validation, troubleshooting, and operational handoff\nAdvanced troubleshooting experience across Windows Server, Linux, networking, storage, virtualization, identity and access management, security controls, and application dependencies\nExperience installing, upgrading, configuring, and troubleshooting Windows Server and Linux environments, including Red Hat, Oracle Linux, CentOS, or similar distributions\nExperience managing Windows and Linux file systems, including PowerShell-based Windows administration and Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and ZFS\nExperience supporting migrations with Azure File Sync, AWS DataSync, rsync, robocopy, Azure Files, NFS, and/or Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)\nExperience establishing performance baselines, diagnosing performance issues, and recommending cloud target sizing based on existing-system data\nAbility to develop or improve PowerShell, Bash, Python, infrastructure-as-code, or similar automation supporting deployment, configuration, migration, rollback, and validation\nExperience reviewing another engineer’s runbooks, automation, validation evidence, or migration artifacts and providing technical guidance\nExperience applying or validating STIG controls and/or DoD security requirements within secure and compliant engineering procedures\nNice to Have Skills\nExperience with Azure Government or AWS GovCloud environments\nCurrent associate-level cloud certification strongly preferred, such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate\nAdvanced or complementary certification such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate, or a relevant security credential\nExperience leading technical cutover and rollback decisions within defined program authority\nExperience migrating multi-tier applications and resolving cross-domain migration issues\nExperience developing reusable Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or other infrastructure-as-code modules\nExperience using GitHub and GitHub Copilot for source control, peer review, collaboration, and AI-assisted engineering\nFederal program delivery experience and familiarity with ServiceNow-based change management\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 $121,000-$182,000 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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