Title: Junior Amazon Web Services Cloud Administrator

Location: Reston/ USa

Remote/ Hybrid

time type

Full time

job requisition id

JR2026001170

Job Description

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.

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 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/train 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 Junior Amazon Web Services Cloud Administrator.

Project Summary

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

Key Responsibilities

Maintains smooth operation of different cloud-based systems, including coordination with network administrators.

Sets up administrator and service accounts, maintains system documentation for cloud infrastructure and tenant inventory, tunes system performance, installs system wide software and allocates mass storage space.

Respond to large-scale events involving instantiation of virtual resources such VMs and storage.

Fix critical software and system failures.

Propose, drive and implement technical solutions for automation, efficiency and scalability.

Develop/improve tools, reports, and processes to monitor the health of cloud environment.

Required For This Opportunity

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

2+ 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.

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.