Principal Platform Architect

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 Infrastructure Architect.
 • Core Knowledge & Skills: Sets enterprise‑level infrastructure strategy; leads global architectures and integrations; manages worldwide environments; is recognized externally as a thought leader.

• Work & Complexity: Oversees multi‑region programs, coordinates global delivery, applies analytics to predict/mitigate issues, and steers strategic vendor partnerships.

• Quality & Independence: Establishes visionary, organization‑wide standards; ensures excellence on large‑scale initiatives; drives sustainable, future‑ready practices with full autonomy.

• Teamwork & Communication: Leads enterprise communication of strategy, aligns global stakeholders, mentors next‑generation leaders, and represents the organization in industry forums.

• Consulting & Engagement: Advises executives on strategy and vision, expands external offerings and partnerships, and shapes long‑term technology direction and market influence.


As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Principal Platform Architect.

 Project Summary As a Microsoft Solutions Partner, we help organizations accelerate their digital transformation by delivering modern cloud, infrastructure, security, and platform engineering solutions built on Microsoft technologies. We are seeking a Principal Platform Architect to lead the design, implementation, modernization, and optimization of enterprise platforms across Microsoft Azure, GitHub, DevOps, and DevSecOps.

This is a hands-on consulting role where you will architect, build, deploy, govern, and optimize enterprise solutions while serving as a trusted advisor to customers. You will work directly with client engineering, operations, and product teams to implement secure, scalable, and automated platforms, mentor technical teams, and lead complex transformation engagements from strategy through delivery. T he ideal candidate is passionate about building solutions as much as designing them. You are equally comfortable leading executive architecture workshops, writing Infrastructure-as-Code, implementing GitHub Actions, automating cloud deployments, building governance models, and solving complex platform engineering and DevSecOps challenges.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Architecture & Engineering • Design, build, and implement secure, scalable Microsoft Azure infrastructure and platform solutions.

• Lead cloud migration, modernization, and hybrid infrastructure engagements.

• Develop and implement Azure Landing Zones, governance frameworks, and operational standards.

• Design resilient, highly available, and secure cloud architectures.

• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, Bicep, and ARM templates.

• Build reusable automation frameworks, deployment accelerators, and operational tooling.

• Configure, optimize, and troubleshoot Azure networking, compute, storage, identity, monitoring, and security services.

• Participate in hands-on implementation throughout the project lifecycle.​

GitHub, DevOps & Platform Engineering • Design and implement enterprise DevOps platforms using GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps.

DevSecOps & Security • Integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Implement GitHub Advanced Security, code scanning, secret scanning, dependency management, and vulnerability remediation.

• Design and implement identity and access management solutions using Microsoft Entra ID.

• Implement policy-as-code, security automation, and compliance controls.

• Configure Azure Key Vault, privileged access management, and secrets management.

• Ensure solutions align with Microsoft security best practices and industry compliance requirements.

Consulting & Customer Leadership • Lead technical discovery sessions, architecture workshops, and solution design engagements.

• Translate business objectives into practical technical solutions and implementation roadmaps.

• Serve as the primary technical advisor throughout project delivery.

• Present architecture recommendations and delivery roadmaps to executive and technical stakeholders.

• Mentor client engineering teams and provide technical knowledge transfer.

• Support pre-sales activities including solution architecture, technical proposals, estimations, and proof-of-concepts.

Technical Leadership • Provide technical leadership across multiple client engagements.

• Mentor architects, consultants, and engineers.

• Establish engineering standards, reusable patterns, and delivery best practices.

• Conduct architecture and code reviews.

• Evaluate emerging Microsoft technologies and recommend adoption strategies.

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