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 Senior DevOps Engineer.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Masters CI/CD best practices and toolchains, multiple scripting languages, cloud platforms, and Kubernetes; integrates security into pipelines (DevSecOps).

• Work & Complexity: Designs complex workflows, leads incident response for critical systems, and automates advanced deployment and configuration scenarios.

• Quality & Independence: Sets a high bar for availability and performance, develops comprehensive test suites, and makes significant technical decisions with minimal oversight.

• Teamwork & Communication: Leads collaborative efforts, mentors juniors, facilitates decisions, and communicates complex issues to stakeholders.

• Consulting & Engagement: Leads optimization initiatives, provides expert guidance on tools and practices, and contributes to strategic projects.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Senior Devops Engineer.

Project Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with over 8 years of experience to join our innovative team. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in Azure cloud services, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipeline development, automation, and security best practices. You will play a key role in building, managing, and optimizing cloud-based production environments, enabling high-performance, secure, and scalable applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as subject-matter expert regarding DevSecOps related areas, tools and processes both in Azure cloud.

• Develop Azure cloud-based and internal tools and processes to maintain stability and performance of our infrastructure.

• Build, maintain, and troubleshoot several internal applications and respond to and resolve production issues.

• Gather, analyze, and report system monitoring.

• Deploy, maintain, and manage Azure cloud-based production systems ensuring high availability, performance, and security.

• Build and scale web-based tools and solutions tailored for business needs.

• Conduct security reviews and implement improvements to meet compliance and governance standards.

• Operate effectively in an Agile environment, collaborating cross-functionally with development and operations teams.

• Design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for reliable delivery of applications and services.

• Leverage container orchestration frameworks (e.g., Kubernetes) to manage deployment workflows.

• Mentor team members and promote knowledge sharing and collaborative problem-solving.

• Conduct regular security reviews and retrospectives to continuously improve security processes.

• Use container orchestration technologies to manage production-level deployments.

• Work collaboratively with software development teams across disciplines.

Required For This Opportunity

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps or cloud engineering roles.

• Strong experience with Azure infrastructure, tools, and services.

• 3+ years of experience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Bicep, ARM, etc.

• Proficient in source code management tools: GitHub, Azure DevOps, GitLab, Bitbucket.

• Hands-on experience with container-based infrastructure and production deployments.

• Proficient in monitoring and logging tools such as AppInsights.

• Strong programming/scripting experience with Bash, PowerShell, Python, or similar.

• Familiarity with automation tools like Selenium, Playwright, etc.

• Frontend/backend development experience is a plus (React, Angular, C#, Java, .NET).

• In-depth understanding of cloud security, application security, SAST, and DAST practices.

• Experience with incident response, troubleshooting, and participating in on-call rotations.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to work independently with minimal oversight.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience. 

• Strong work ethic, attention to detail, and zero-defect mentality.  Ability to work independently with minimal supervision or assistance.

• Strong problem-solving skills: innovation, collaboration, analysis, inductive reasoning.

• Good understanding of technology and its application to any business process

• Proven experience supporting container-based infrastructure and managing production deployments.

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience in Azure, Azure DevOps, Run books and automation

• Languages & Tools: PowerShell, PowerBI

• Technologies: Cloud Architecture, ARM templates, Bicep, SQL