Microsoft Teams Rooms / Collaboration Deployment Engineer

About the 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 Lead Software Engineer. Core Knowledge & Skills: Operates independently or as a team lead, selects appropriate persistence technologies (e.g., EF, Dapper), defines source control strategies, and designs subsystem infrastructure.

Work & Complexity: Tackles complex problems with thorough analysis, manages cross-functional delivery, and improves system reliability and scalability. Quality & Independence: Consistently meets deadlines even under challenging conditions, enforces standards through detailed reviews, and establishes productivity benchmarks for the team.

Teamwork & Communication: Provides functional leadership by setting objectives, organizing resources, resolving conflicts, and engaging confidently with both internal and external stakeholders. Consulting & Engagement: Troubleshoots advanced client issues, supports requirements gathering, and contributes to vendor presentations or proposal activities.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Microsoft Teams Rooms / Collaboration Deployment Engineer. Project Summary AIS is seeking a Microsoft Teams Rooms / Collaboration Deployment Engineer to deploy and validate MS Teams Rooms and related collaboration capabilities across a large, secure enterprise environment for a federal customer in Groton, CT.

Pay and benefits

Plan, configure, deploy, and validate Teams Rooms on Windows, room accounts, licensing, and device-management policies. Coordinate room readiness across AV hardware, network, power, displays, cameras, audio systems, and site operations. Implement Entra join, Intune enrollment, certificates, 802.1X, VLAN, FQDN, and firewall requirements.

Execute pilot, cutover, and acceptance activities while resolving deployment and in-room user-experience issues. Create deployment standards, site-survey checklists, test scripts, and handoff documentation. Partner with network, endpoint, security, facilities, and AV vendors to remove delivery blockers. Required For This Opportunity 4+ years in Teams, endpoint, unified communications, or AV deployment engineering.

Hands-on Microsoft Teams Rooms deployment and troubleshooting experience. Experience with Intune, Entra ID, Windows device management, certificates, and enterprise networking. Practical knowledge of AV peripherals, room systems, and onsite rollout coordination. Ability to communicate clearly with technical teams, field technicians, and customer stakeholders. Nice to Have Skills Teams Rooms Pro Management or Teams Phone experience.

802.1X/NDES/SCEP certificate-deployment experience. Large-scale room rollout experience. 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 $117,000-$177,000 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.

Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs.