Cloud Systems Engineer - Mid

Applied Information Sciences • Boston, MA

2d • $89,000 - $134,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

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. Working@AIS 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 Engineer.
As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Cloud Systems Engineer - Mid.

Project Summary AIS is supporting federal customer with a program focused on architecture and infrastructure.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 4+ years of relevant experience supporting enterprise cloud and/or infrastructure environments.
• Certifications: IAT-2, 1 or more cloud certifications.
• Active Secret clearance (or higher).
• Experience working in regulated environments and following secure engineering / documentation practices.
• Ability to work in a hybrid environment at sites near Boston, MA.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting DoD/IC programs and mission systems.

Responsibilities

• Drives the stability and sustainability of the cloud-based networks, software systems for scaling and reliable operations
• Performs system integration, verification and validation and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems
• Creates proactive engineering mechanisms that will enable the team to manage the health of a number of distributed VMs
• Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies for hardware and software specifications
• Utilizes trends and metrics to identify opportunities for improvements within existing frameworks, tools and processes
• Responsible for systems functionality, performance, and configurations issues
• Manages routing/switching and network security, multi‑OS environments, virtualization (e.g., VMware/Hyper‑V), core cloud services, and release of IaC via pipelines
• Automates common admin tasks
• Plans and executes upgrades/migrations, configures network devices and services, responds to incidents, monitors performance, and manages resources
• Implements proactive monitoring, produces accurate documentation, improves processes, and works independently within project scope
• Partners with peer teams, shares knowledge, coordinates changes, reports progress, and supports/train users
• Advises internal teams on solutions and tools, evaluates technologies, recommends optimizations, and coordinates vendor support

Benefits

• 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 This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level