Senior Computer Systems Engineer/Architect - Informatica
Nakupuna Companies2 years ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$170k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop high-availability architecture recommendations and prototypes covering sizing, dependencies, networking, compute, storage, load balancing, capacity, and cost.
- Define reliability objectives, RTO/RPO targets, failover, backup, retention, restoration, disaster-recovery testing, and rollback strategies.
- Lead Everything as Code across infrastructure, configuration, security, governance policy, testing, and CI/CD deployment.
- Design AWS GovCloud resources and controls, including EC2, S3, networking, routing, security groups, load balancers, IAM roles, service accounts, logging, monitoring, and encryption.
- Establish standards for source control, branching, peer review, automated testing, automated deployment, configuration management, and change control.
- Lead security engineering for PKI, SSO, LDAP, OCSP, certificates, RBAC, least privilege, Zero Trust, logging, vulnerability remediation, and security-operations integration.
- Coordinate RMF/ATO and STIG compliance activities, including control mappings, security documentation, hardening evidence, POA&M inputs, retesting, and closure support.
- Guide Informatica architecture, data integration, performance testing, interoperability, and operational-readiness decisions.
- Review and approve designs, scripts, code, configurations, tests, diagrams, runbooks, and deployment packages.
- Establish continuous monitoring for availability, performance, errors, capacity, cost, API metrics, and data quality.
- Coordinate technical risk management, issue resolution, root-cause analysis, vendor coordination, sprint planning, milestone reviews, government briefings, and stakeholder decisions.
- Deliver hands-on knowledge transfer and mentoring so NAVSUP administrators and engineers can operate, maintain, recover, and enhance the solution.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or a related technical field is preferred.
- At least 7 years of hands-on Informatica experience.
- At least 10 years of senior-level experience architecting enterprise platforms in AWS or AWS GovCloud from design through production operations.
- Strong knowledge of cloud computing, storage, networking, security groups, load balancing, identity and access management, encryption, monitoring, performance, capacity, and cost optimization.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, Configuration as Code, Security or Policy as Code, automated testing, Git-based version control, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience designing high availability, backup, disaster recovery, RTO/RPO, failover, restoration testing, and rollback for production systems.
- Working knowledge of enterprise APIs, data integration, data governance, metadata, data quality, and relational data-warehouse architectures.
- Strong knowledge of RMF/ATO, STIGs, NIST 800-53 controls, system hardening, PKI, SSO, RBAC, logging, vulnerability remediation, and Zero Trust concepts.
- Demonstrated ability to lead a small multidisciplinary engineering team and work with government technical, security, contracting, and program stakeholders.
- U.S. citizenship and ability to meet privileged-access, background-investigation, CAC, SAAR, training, certification, and NDA requirements.
- Current DoD 8140.03 IAT Level II baseline certification at start, such as CompTIA Security+ CE or an approved substitute including CCNA, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, or CND.
- Applicable computing-environment certification in AWS, Windows, Oracle, UNIX, or Linux required within six months.
- Preferred qualifications include AWS GovCloud and federal DevSecOps experience, AWS professional or specialty certifications, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, Azure DevOps, MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog, Axon, Data Quality, PowerCenter, CloudWatch, Splunk, AppDynamics, Navy data, WDP/Jupiter, Flank Speed, Microsoft Power Platform, logistics systems, or government API-management experience.
- Requires CAC eligibility and a final favorably adjudicated T5, T5R, SSBI, or equivalent investigation before privileged access is granted; interim privileged access is authorized.
Benefits
- Projected annualized compensation range is $170,000.00 to $210,000.00 USD.
- The position includes a market-based total compensation strategy influenced by education, skills, experience, contract affordability, organizational requirements, and location.
About Nakupuna Companies
Nakupuna Companies is a Native Hawaiian Organization–owned family of companies that provides management consulting, IT, logistics, environmental, and facilities and infrastructure services to U.S. defense and federal agencies. Its portfolio includes SBA 8(a) small businesses supporting mission and business operations, systems modernization, and compliance for Department of Defense programs. Headquartered in Honolulu, it also has offices in Arlington, Denver, Mechanicsburg, Charleston, and Patuxent River.