Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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 a Senior Infrastructure Engineer.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Designs complex network and hybrid‑cloud solutions; implements security controls, DR/BCP, and automated IaC with deployment pipelines; performs advanced performance tuning.
• Work & Complexity: Solves complex issues, designs and delivers new infrastructure solutions, performs capacity planning, and leads advanced automation initiatives.
• Quality & Independence: Drives root‑cause analysis, enforces best practices and QA on changes, optimizes for reliability and user experience; operates with high autonomy.
• Teamwork & Communication: Leads cross‑functional efforts, mentors juniors, facilitates knowledge transfer, and aligns stakeholders with technical plans.
• Consulting & Engagement: Provides strategic input on infrastructure initiatives, recommends advanced technologies, and manages vendor relationships.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Microsoft 365 Engineer - Intune & Endpoint Management.

Project Summary

AIS is seeking a mid-level Microsoft 365 Engineer to support and enhance our modern endpoint management environment with a primary focus on Microsoft Intune, Windows workstation device management, and Windows Autopilot for a federal contract. This role is responsible for the design, implementation, administration, and operational support of cloud-managed endpoints across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support Microsoft Intune for Windows endpoint management.
• Configure, deploy, and maintain Windows Autopilot profiles and provisioning workflows.
• Manage device compliance policies, configuration profiles, update rings, feature updates, and security baselines.
• Deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot software distribution through Intune, including Win32 app packaging and application assignments.
• Support endpoint enrollment scenarios for Azure AD / Entra ID joined and hybrid-joined devices where applicable.
• Maintain and optimize endpoint configuration standards for laptops, desktops, and other managed workstations.
• Troubleshoot Autopilot pre-provisioning, enrollment status page (ESP), enrollment failures, policy conflicts, application deployment issues, and device compliance problems.

Required For This Opportunity

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3–6 years of IT engineering experience, with at least 2+ years of hands-on Microsoft Intune administration.
• Experience implementing and supporting Windows Autopilot in an enterprise environment.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft 365 endpoint management concepts and best practices.
• Experience managing Windows 10/11 devices in a cloud-managed or co-managed environment.

Nice To Have Skills

• Experience with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint integration with Intune.
• Experience in co-management environments with Configuration Manager (SCCM/MECM).
• Familiarity with Group Policy migration to Intune / cloud-based management.
• Experience supporting Conditional Access and device-based access controls.
• Knowledge of Apple iOS/iPadOS and Android management in Intune is a plus.
• Microsoft Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate Certification
• Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert Certification
• Azure / Entra-related certifications

Compensation

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 $102,000-$154,000 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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.