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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?\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 Engineer.\nCore Knowledge & Skills: Designs complex network and hybrid-cloud solutions; implements security controls, DR/BCP, and automated IaC with deployment pipelines; performs advanced performance tuning.\n\nWork & Complexity: Solves complex issues, designs and delivers new infrastructure solutions, performs capacity planning, and leads advanced automation initiatives.\n\nQuality & Independence: Drives root-cause analysis, enforces best practices and QA on changes, optimizes for reliability and user experience; operates with high autonomy.\n\nTeamwork & Communication: Leads cross-functional efforts, mentors juniors, facilitates knowledge transfer, and aligns stakeholders with technical plans.\n\nConsulting & Engagement: Provides strategic input on infrastructure initiatives, recommends advanced technologies, and manages vendor relationships.\n\nAs your initial career assignment, you will support the priorities and vital functions of our shared services teams as a(n) Network Engineer.\n\nProject Summary\nSeeking a Cloud Network Automation Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals.\nWhat you will do:\nProvision, manage, and support Palo Alto Firewalls and Panorama servers across several internet-connected and internet-disconnected networks and Cloud Service Providers.\nDevelop, utilize, and maintain Ansible Playbooks to secure, patch, and configure Palo Alto appliances.\nManage and configure connected services such as network adapters, storage, and firewalls.\nDeploy, configure, and support monitoring capabilities to detect anomalous conditions or service disruptions.\nInvestigate service disruptions and provide root cause analysis reports and implement additional steps to prevent subsequent issues.\nKey Responsibilities\nExpertise with Configuration as Code (CaC) tooling, Ansible preferred.\nExpertise managing Palo Alto firewalls disconnected environments.\nExpertise with network requirements and configuration of regulated environments, preferably within Department of War agencies.\nMust have strong oral and written communication skills.\nRequired For This Opportunity\nExperience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling, Terraform preferred.\nExperience managing secure computing environments to adhere with DISA STIGs and NIST 800-53 controls.\nExperience monitoring system uptime and performance with tools such as Splunk, Grafana, and SolarWinds.\nExperience providing detailed technical after-action reports with root cause analysis after outage or security incidents.\nFamiliarity with host-level networking such as instance firewalls.\nFamiliarity with source code management tooling such as GitHub or GitLab.\n Location: Linthicum Heights, MD (full-time on-site)\nClearance Requirement: Active TS clearance/SCI eligible\nEducation/Experience Requirement: Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience, or Master's degree with 6+ years of experience, or PhD with 3+ years of experience. A degree in one of the following fields is highly desired: Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or Software Engineering. In lieu of a degree, an additional 4 years of relevant experience or specialized training may be considered.\n Certification Requirement (MUST ATTACH A COPY OF THE CERTIFICATION TO THE BEELINE SUBMISSION): Active CompTIA Security+ 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 $102,000-$154,000 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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