Cloud DevOps Engineer Subject Matter Expert

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.

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.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Sets enterprise DevOps strategy; integrates AI/ML, edge, and IoT into delivery; governs compliance and risk at scale across environments.

• Work & Complexity: Directs innovative, global DevOps solutions; addresses the most ambiguous challenges; and future-proofs platforms and practices.

• Quality & Independence: Defines visionary standards for automation, reliability, and security; leads the global automation strategy and continuous improvement.

• Teamwork & Communication: Engages C-suite and board-level stakeholders, leads enterprise-wide initiatives, and fosters a culture of excellence and high performance.

• Consulting & Engagement: Shapes organizational transformation through DevOps, represents the company in industry forums, and drives strategic alignment with business goals.

AIS is supporting a new Leidos account focused on architecture and infrastructure services in the Boston/Hanscom area. This is a subcontract engagement (approximately 15% workshare) with significant near-term hiring demand (~50 roles) to support federal mission delivery. Roles are primarily remote, with Massachusetts candidates preferred and availability targeted for March/April.

• Develops strategy and integration methodology around design, development and implementation of cloud based solutions
• Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems
• Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies for hardware and software specifications
• Utilize trends and metrics to identify opportunities for improvements within existing frameworks, tools and processes
• Responsible for systems functionality, performance, and configurations issues
• Enables the quick development and release of changes and bug-fixes on an as-required basis and incorporation of feedback from developers/users
• Considered a recognized authority within the company
• Works on unusually complex technical problems and provides solutions which are highly innovative

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

• 12+ years of relevant experience supporting enterprise cloud and/or infrastructure environments.

• Certifications: IAT-2, 1 or more cloud certifications.

• Able to obtain a minimum of a Secret security clearance; active Secret preferred.

• Experience working in regulated environments and following secure engineering / documentation practices.

• Active Secret clearance (or higher).

• Massachusetts-based candidate or ability to support periodic on-site needs at Leidos sites in Concord or Tewksbury, MA.

• Experience supporting DoD/IC programs and mission systems.

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