Research Systems Engineer - Mid

AIS (Applied Information Sciences)•Boston, MA

27d•$89,000 - $134,000

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. Core Knowledge & Skills: 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. Work & Complexity: Plans and executes upgrades/migrations, configures network devices and services, responds to incidents, monitors performance, and manages resources. Quality & Independence: Implements proactive monitoring, produces accurate documentation, improves processes, and works independently within project scope. Teamwork & Communication: Partners with peer teams, shares knowledge, coordinates changes, reports progress, and supports/train users. Consulting & Engagement: Advises internal teams on solutions and tools, evaluates technologies, recommends optimizations, and coordinates vendor support. As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Research 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.

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