About this role
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