Infrastructure & Platform Operations Engineer

<div class="isg-job-description“>Why AIS?

When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. 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.

• Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.

• Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

• Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.

• Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

What are we looking for?

At 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.

What you will be doing?

This 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.

At 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 Infrastructure Architect.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Architects scalable, resilient solutions; authors roadmaps and blueprints; integrates diverse components; advances automation (PowerShell/Python/Ansible) and governance/policy.

• Work & Complexity: Leads architectural initiatives, establishes performance benchmarks, integrates systems at scale, researches emerging tech, and mitigates enterprise risk.

• Quality & Independence: Ensures integrity, scalability, and cost/performance optimization; produces comprehensive design artifacts; sets and enforces standards with broad autonomy.

• Teamwork & Communication: Leads architectural teams, builds strategic partnerships, institutionalizes knowledge management, and communicates designs and executiveready reports.

• Consulting & Engagement: Delivers architectural consulting aligned to business strategy, proposes enterprise technologies, nurtures vendor alliances, and seeds new project opportunities.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Infrastructure & Platform Operations Engineer.

Introduction

As a SR Infrastructure Engineer, you will use cutting edge cloud and data technologies to help global brands and federal agencies solve challenging problems through innovative technology solutions. Work on exciting projects, future-proof your skills, and grow into your dream job alongside some of the most talented, knowledgeable, and dedicated technologists in the industry.

Responsibilities:

• Design Infrastructure Architecture and Solution Application Architecture working with Platform Design & Engineering, InfoSec, CTOE, Enterprise Architecture, and Solution Architecture.

• Deploy and manage Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters for containerized apps like the GenAI API with full DCE Platform 1.0 tooling parity and support for GPU workloads.

• Extend current architecture to support regional disaster recovery and zonal high availability.

• Implement a multi-region AI Landing Zone with failover using DNS and App Gateway.

• Monitor infrastructure health and troubleshoot AKS, OpenAI, and database issues.

• Integrate new technologies into the AILZ such as AI Foundry Agents, MCP servers, Document Intelligence, and Cosmos DB.- Automate AI Foundry deployment with private VNet injection, inbound NSG rules, EntraID groups for identity based access and documentation for team onboarding.

• Mature AI Search promotion process with dedicated Search services per-team for R&D, an index creation pipeline and a data copy pipeline for chunks.

• Resolve DNS, firewall and NSG connectivity issues for users, AKS workloads and Azure resources (Ex. Foundry Agent connections to Search indexes, AKS pod connections to Azure Storage, user connections to App Gateway)

• Onboard new Machine Learning and GenAI teams by creating Terraform Cloud workspaces, Databricks Workspaces, AI Foundry Projects, Azure Search instances, AKS namespaces, Key Vaults, workload identities, Data Factories, Data Lakes and database servers as needed. Ex. Research teams looking to take advantage of Databricks.

• Guide new workloads from experimentation to production deployment by evangelizing Enterprise Architecture archtypes, IaC best practices, zero-trust network security and robust data security

• Outline center of excellence and support best practices

Location and Travel details

• This is a remote position with occasional travel (if needed)

Required for this opportunity

• Advanced Terraform

• ARM templates

• Azure DevOps Pipelines

• GitOps

• Kubernetes administration

• Network debugging

• Knowledge of AI offerings in azure + understanding of Databricks

• Excellent written / oral communication (creating documentation / gathering requirements)

At AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team member.

The targeted base salary range for this role is $138,000-$209,000 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.

We value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process.

Applied 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. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs.

AIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Applied Information Sciences is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis covered by law. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications merit, and business need.