Research Systems Engineer - Mid

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.

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 an 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/trains 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.

Key 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

Required For This Opportunity

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.

Ability to work in a hybrid role at sites in Boston, MA.

Nice to Have Skills

Experience supporting DoD/IC programs and mission systems.

At AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team member. The targeted base salary range for this role is $89,000-$134,000 per year. Please note that this range is provided as a guideline and the final offer will be based on several factors, including but not limited to, skillset and competencies, level of experience, education, certifications, and location. We value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process.

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.