Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

Applied Information Sciences • Boston, MA

8d • $114,000 - $172,000

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 Lead DevOps Engineer.
Core Knowledge & Skills: Designs large-scale CI/CD architectures, applies advanced cloud and security patterns, and builds reusable automation frameworks. Work & Complexity: Oversees reliability and scalability initiatives, manages cross-functional efforts to resolve high-impact issues, and drives platform standardization. Quality & Independence: Defines team processes and standards, conducts rigorous code and infrastructure reviews, and enforces best practices for monitoring and incident response. Teamwork & Communication: Guides team execution, develops talent, resolves conflict, and aligns cross-team work with organizational priorities. Consulting & Engagement: Provides strategic consulting on DevOps initiatives, leads improvement programs, and partners with leadership on roadmap decisions.
As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer.

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).
• 8+ 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.
• Massachusetts-based candidate or ability to support periodic on-site needs at sites near Boston, MA.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting DoD/IC programs and mission systems.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid, reliable releases and rollbacks.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation to improve consistency and scalability.

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.

What This Job Offers

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