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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 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 Principal Platform Architect.\n\nProject Summary\nAs a Microsoft Solutions Partner, we help organizations accelerate their digital transformation by delivering modern cloud, infrastructure, security, and platform engineering solutions built on Microsoft technologies. We are seeking a Principal Platform Architect to lead the design, implementation, modernization, and optimization of enterprise platforms across Microsoft Azure, GitHub, DevOps, and DevSecOps.\nThis is a hands-on consulting role where you will architect, build, deploy, govern, and optimize enterprise solutions while serving as a trusted advisor to customers. You will work directly with client engineering, operations, and product teams to implement secure, scalable, and automated platforms, mentor technical teams, and lead complex transformation engagements from strategy through delivery.\nT\nhe ideal candidate is passionate about building solutions as much as designing them. You are equally comfortable leading executive architecture workshops, writing Infrastructure-as-Code, implementing GitHub Actions, automating cloud deployments, building governance models, and solving complex platform engineering and DevSecOps challenges.\nKey Responsibilities\n\nPlatform Architecture & Engineering\nDesign, build, and implement secure, scalable Microsoft Azure infrastructure and platform solutions.\n\nLead cloud migration, modernization, and hybrid infrastructure engagements.\n\nDevelop and implement Azure Landing Zones, governance frameworks, and operational standards.\n\nDesign resilient, highly available, and secure cloud architectures.\n\nDevelop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, Bicep, and ARM templates.\n\nBuild reusable automation frameworks, deployment accelerators, and operational tooling.\n\nConfigure, optimize, and troubleshoot Azure networking, compute, storage, identity, monitoring, and security services.\n\nParticipate in hands-on implementation throughout the project lifecycle.\n\nGitHub, DevOps & Platform Engineering\nDesign and implement enterprise DevOps platforms using GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps.\n\nDevSecOps & Security\nIntegrate security throughout the software development lifecycle.\n\nImplement GitHub Advanced Security, code scanning, secret scanning, dependency management, and vulnerability remediation.\n\nDesign and implement identity and access management solutions using Microsoft Entra ID.\n\nImplement policy-as-code, security automation, and compliance controls.\n\nConfigure Azure Key Vault, privileged access management, and secrets management.\n\nEnsure solutions align with Microsoft security best practices and industry compliance requirements.\n\nConsulting & Customer Leadership\nLead technical discovery sessions, architecture workshops, and solution design engagements.\n\nTranslate business objectives into practical technical solutions and implementation roadmaps.\n\nServe as the primary technical advisor throughout project delivery.\n\nPresent architecture recommendations and delivery roadmaps to executive and technical stakeholders.\n\nMentor client engineering teams and provide technical knowledge transfer.\n\nSupport pre-sales activities including solution architecture, technical proposals, estimations, and proof-of-concepts.\n\nTechnical Leadership\nProvide technical leadership across multiple client engagements.\n\nMentor architects, consultants, and engineers.\n\nEstablish engineering standards, reusable patterns, and delivery best practices.\n\nConduct architecture and code reviews.\n\nEvaluate emerging Microsoft technologies and recommend adoption strategies.\n\nContribute to the growth of our Microsoft practice through innovation, solution development, and technical enablement.\n\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.\n\n10+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud, platform engineering, or enterprise architecture.\n\n5+ years designing and implementing Microsoft Azure solutions.\n\nExperience leading enterprise cloud modernization and digital transformation initiatives.\n\nAzure DevOps to GitHub migration experience is a plus, including repository migration, pipeline transition to GitHub Actions, permissions/governance, branching strategies, and developer workflow adoption.\n\nExperience working within a Microsoft partner, consulting, or professional services organization.\n\nProven success leading customer-facing technical engagements.\n\nExcellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.\n\nBuild and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.\n\nImplement GitHub Advanced Security, repository governance, branching strategies, and developer workflows.\n\nDesign platform engineering solutions that improve developer productivity and self-service capabilities.\n\nAutomate infrastructure and application deployments across multiple environments.\n\nEstablish enterprise DevOps standards and best practices.\n\nRequired For This Opportunity\nMicrosoft Azure\nAzure Landing Zones\n\nAzure Virtual Networks, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway\n\nAzure Compute, Storage, Backup, Site Recovery\n\nAzure Monitor, Log Analytics, Azure Policy\n\nAzure Firewall, Application Gateway, Private Link\n\nMicrosoft Entra ID and identity services\n\nAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)\n\nGitHub & DevOps\nGitHub Enterprise Cloud and Server\n\nGitHub Actions\n\nGitHub Advanced Security\n\nAzure DevOps\n\nCI/CD pipeline architecture\n\nRelease automation\n\nGit workflows and repository governance\n\nPlatform engineering\n\nAzure DevOps to GitHub migration planning and execution, including repos, CI/CD pipelines, release workflows, security controls, and team enablement.\n\nTerraform\n\nBicep\n\nARM Templates\n\nPowerShell\n\nAzure CLI\n\nBash or Python scripting\n\nDevSecOps & Security\nSecure SDLC\n\nZero Trust architecture\n\nIdentity and Access Management (IAM)\n\nSecrets management\n\nVulnerability management\n\nPolicy-as-Code\n\nCompliance automation\n\nSecurity governance\n\nContainers & Cloud Native\n\nAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)\n\nDocker\n\nKubernetes\n\nHelm\n\nGitOps methodologies\n\nCertifications\nCandidates should possess, or be willing to obtain within six months of hire, the following certifications:\nRequired\nMicrosoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)\n\nMicrosoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)\n\nGitHub Foundations\n\nGitHub Actions\n\nGitHub Advanced Security\n\nHashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate\n\nPreferred\nMicrosoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)\n\nMicrosoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)\n\nMicrosoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300)\n\nMicrosoft Certified: Information Security Administrator Associate (SC-401 or successor)\n\nCertified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)\n\nTOGAF Foundation or Certified\n\nITIL Foundation\n\nMigration experience from Azure DevOps to GitHub Enterprise and GitHub Actions is strongly preferred.\n\nWhat Success Looks Like\nLead enterprise cloud transformation engagements from strategy through implementation.\n\nBuild secure, scalable, and automated Azure platforms.\n\nDeliver modern DevOps and DevSecOps capabilities using GitHub Enterprise.\n\nImprove developer productivity through platform engineering and automation.\n\nServe as a trusted technical advisor to enterprise customers.\n\nMentor engineering teams and promote technical excellence.\n\nStrengthen our Microsoft practice by delivering innovative, high-quality solutions and exceptional client outcomes.\n\nWhy Join Us\nWork on complex enterprise transformation initiatives with leading organizations.\n\nCollaborate with Microsoft engineering teams and leverage the latest Microsoft technologies.\n\nInfluence technical strategy and solution delivery 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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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