<h1><b>Why AIS?</b></h1><h3></h3><p>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.</p><ul><li><p><b>Employee Ownership</b>: Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.</p></li><li><p><b>Continuous Learning</b>: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.</p></li><li><p><b>Inclusive Culture</b>: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.</p></li><li><p><b>Mission-Driven Work</b>: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.</p></li></ul><p><b> </b></p><h1><b>What are we looking for?</b></h1><h3></h3><p>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.</p><p><b> </b></p><h1><b>Working@AIS</b><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></h1>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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer.
<ul><li><p><b>Core Knowledge & Skills:</b> Designs complex network and hybrid‑cloud solutions; implements security controls, DR/BCP, and automated IaC with deployment pipelines; performs advanced performance tuning.</p></li><li><p><b>Work & Complexity:</b> Solves complex issues, designs and delivers new infrastructure solutions, performs capacity planning, and leads advanced automation initiatives.</p></li><li><p><b>Quality & Independence:</b> Drives root‑cause analysis, enforces best practices and QA on changes, optimizes for reliability and user experience; operates with high autonomy.</p></li><li><p><b>Teamwork & Communication:</b> Leads cross‑functional efforts, mentors juniors, facilitates knowledge transfer, and aligns stakeholders with technical plans.</p></li><li><p><b>Consulting & Engagement:</b> Provides strategic input on infrastructure initiatives, recommends advanced technologies, and manages vendor relationships.</p></li></ul>
As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Application Integration <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">Engineer.
</span><h1><b>Project Summary</b></h1><p>The Application Integration Engineer is responsible for leading the technical onboarding of application workloads onto AKS, with primary focus on Adexone, BdBridge, and Pipestress. This role bridges the gap between application owners, developers, infrastructure engineers, Kubernetes engineers, DevOps engineers, security teams, and operations teams. The engineer will assess current application <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">architecture, identify dependencies,</span> define runtime requirements, support container <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">deployment, validate connectivity,</span> coordinate testing, resolve integration issues, and document workload-specific deployment and operational procedures. </p><p></p><h1><b>Key Responsibilities</b></h1><ul><li><p><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">Assess current-state architecture</span> <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">for Adexone, BdBridge,</span> and Pipestress, including runtime components, hosting model, dependencies, data flows, authentication patterns, and operational <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">requirements. </span></p></li><li><p><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">Identify container</span> image readiness, source repositories, build artifacts, configuration files, deployment manifests, service dependencies, and runtime <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">parameters. </span></p></li><li><p>Define AKS deployment requirements for each application, including environment variables, secrets, certificates, DNS names, ingress requirements, APIs, databases, file storage, message queues, and external service <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">integrations. </span></p></li><li><p>Work with Kubernetes and DevOps engineers to translate application requirements into Kubernetes manifests, Helm <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">charts, Kustomize overlays,</span> pipeline variables, and release <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">workflows. </span></p></li><li><p>Validate application connectivity to required databases, APIs, file stores, identity providers, external endpoints, and internal enterprise <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">services. </span></p></li><li><p>Support application deployment, smoke testing, functional testing, UAT support, defect triage, and <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">remediation. </span></p></li><li><p>Coordinate with application owners and SMEs to define acceptance criteria, validation procedures, health checks, and go-live readiness <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">criteria. </span></p></li><li><p>Support logging, telemetry, and alerting requirements in coordination with Operations/SRE and Security teams. </p></li><li><p>Document deployment steps, configuration parameters, dependencies, rollback procedures, known issues, and operational support <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">procedures. </span></p></li><li><p>Assist with migration from current hosting models to AKS where applications are already containerized or <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">near container-ready. </span></p></li></ul><p></p><h1><b>Required For This Opportunity</b></h1><ul><li><p>5+ years of experience supporting enterprise application integration, application deployment, application modernization, or cloud migration <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">projects. </span></p></li><li><p>Experience integrating applications into containerized, cloud-hosted, or Kubernetes-based <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">environments. </span></p></li><li><p>Strong understanding of application architecture, APIs, databases, authentication, certificates, secrets, environment configuration, file storage, and release <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">validation. </span></p></li><li><p>Experience working with Kubernetes deployment concepts including deployments, services, <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">ingress, ConfigMaps,</span> Secrets, persistent volumes, and health probes. </p></li><li><p>Experience supporting application deployments through Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD tools. </p></li><li><p>Ability to troubleshoot application startup failures, connectivity issues, configuration errors, TLS/certificate problems, dependency failures, and runtime <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">exceptions. </span></p></li><li><p>Experience working directly with application owners, developers, infrastructure engineers, security teams, and operations teams. </p></li><li><p>Ability to document application dependency matrices, deployment procedures, test results, and operational handoff <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">materials. </span></p></li></ul><p></p><h1><b>Nice to Have Skills</b></h1><ul><li><p>Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service. </p></li><li><p>Experience working in Azure Government, GCC High, DoD, DIB, Federal, or regulated enterprise <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">environments. </span></p></li><li><p>Familiarity <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">with Dockerfiles,</span> container image registries, runtime configuration, and image <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">promotion. </span></p></li><li><p>Familiarity with <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">Helm, Kustomize,</span> YAML manifests, and Kubernetes <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">troubleshooting. </span></p></li><li><p>Experience with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Azure SQL, storage services, API gateways, message queues, or enterprise integration <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">services. </span></p></li><li><p>Experience supporting applications subject to CMMC, CUI, ITAR, NIST, FedRAMP, or similar compliance <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">requirements. </span></p></li><li><p>Experience supporting engineering, manufacturing, industrial, shipyard, or regulated technical <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">workloads. </span></p></li><li><p>Experience developing application validation plans, smoke test scripts, and UAT support <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">materials. </span></p></li></ul>
At AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">member.
The</span> 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 <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">location.
We</span> value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">process.
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