Cloud Network Engineer

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: Manages routing/switching and network security, multiOS environments, virtualization (e.g., VMware/HyperV), 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.

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

• Supports the operation of the cloud backbone for network communications systems.

• Provides specifications and detailed schematics for cloud network architectures.

• Administer, monitor, install, maintain, and troubleshoot a wide range of systems.

• Conducts testing of network design.

• Maintains technical expertise in all areas of network and computerhardware and software, virtual appliances, interconnection and interfacing, such as routers,firewalls, switches, gateways, etc.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent relevant experience).

• 4+ years of experience supporting cloud and/or enterprise network infrastructure in a production environment.

• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, or supporting cloud-based networking solutions (e.g., VPC/VNet design, routing, firewalls, load balancing, hybrid connectivity).

• Active Secret clearance or higher is required.

• DoD 8570/8140 IAT Level II certification (e.g., Security+, CCNA Security, or equivalent).

• One or more active cloud certifications (e.g., AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), with experience operating in regulated or federal environments.

• Experience supporting DoD/IC programs and mission systems.

Applied Information Sciences does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs.