SOC/NOC Engineer - Lead - Shift Work

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.   What you will be doing?   This position is contingent upon contract award. We are currently pursuing a proposal and are seeking qualified candidates to include in our submission and identify candidates for future hiring needs on the program once awarded. 
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 Lead Security Engineer.
 • Core Knowledge & Skills: Develops strategic security plans, applies advanced cryptography, manages security programs, and designs secure cloud architectures.

• Work & Complexity: Leads strategic projects, integrates security into business processes, develops risk management strategies, and ensures compliance.

• Quality & Independence: Delivers strategic projects, develops innovative solutions, maintains high standards, and ensures stakeholder satisfaction.

• Teamwork & Communication: Leads and mentors teams, aligns efforts with organizational goals, manages performance, and develops training programs.

• Consulting & Engagement: Provides high-level consulting, leads innovation initiatives, develops technology roadmaps, and manages vendor contracts.


As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a SOC/NOC Engineer - Lead - Shift Work.

 Job Summary  

As a Lead SOC/NOC Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for a 24/7 managed operations center responsible for the security, stability, and availability of our clients’ large-scale Azure and Microsoft 365 environments. You will serve as the senior point of escalation for complex security and infrastructure issues, mentor   SOC   and NOC engineers, and own the design and continuous improvement of monitoring, alerting, and incident response capabilities. Blending deep security operations (SOC)   expertise   with network and infrastructure operations (NOC) experience, you will set the standard for operational excellence, drive automation and efficiency, and act as a trusted advisor to clients on strengthening their security posture and operational resilience.  

Willingness to work off hours shifts to help a team cover 24x7x365 SLAs, including 4p-12a m-f and/or 12 hour shifts on Sat-Sun and holidays plus two day shifts per week. Willingness to be on call and swap shifts to cover for planned and unplanned absences of teammates.

Key Responsibilities  

• Serve as the senior point of escalation for challenging and complex security and infrastructure issue resolution across Azure and Microsoft 365 environments.  

• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to SOC and NOC engineers, and support their ongoing training and development.  

• Own the design, configuration, and maintenance of SIEM, monitoring, and alerting capabilities (e.g., Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, Azure Monitor) to ensure rapid detection and response.  

• Build and refine comprehensive security and infrastructure dashboards, alerts, and monitoring tools to gauge the operational security and health of system components.  

• Lead incident response for high-severity security events and major infrastructure outages, coordinating across teams through resolution and post-incident review.  

• Develop and   maintain   runbooks, playbooks, procedures, and reporting templates, and   establish   feedback loops that continuously improve them.  

• Drive automation and innovation to improve the efficiency of security and infrastructure operations activities.  

• Participate in and lead audit, compliance, accreditation, and authority-to-operate (ATO) support activities, ensuring gaps in coverage are   identified   and remediated.  

• Partner with client stakeholders, vendors, and third parties to enhance overall security posture and operational maturity within the managed environment.  

• Establish and enforce operational best practices, including patching, backup and restore, disaster recovery, and change management processes.  

• Provide clear, thorough written documentation for the operational procedures of the environments we support.  

• Lead shift coverage planning and   participate   in an on-call rotation to ensure continuous   24x7   operational   SLAs .  

Required Qualifications  

• 7+ years of experience in security operations, network and infrastructure operations, and/or systems engineering, including operating Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 platforms.  

• Demonstrated experience leading or mentoring engineers within a SOC, NOC, or converged operations center.  

• Deep, hands-on experience with SIEM configuration and maintenance and a variety of SOC/NOC engineering and administration tools.  

• Strong experience managing Azure subscriptions and resources across   compute , storage, networking, and identity.  

• Proven ability to lead

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