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, logging, monitoring, and encryption.
- Establish standards for source control, branching, peer review, automated testing, deployment, configuration management, and change control.
- Lead security engineering involving PKI, SSO, LDAP, OCSP, certificates, RBAC, least privilege, Zero Trust, logging, vulnerability remediation, and security-operations integration.
- Coordinate RMF/ATO and STIG compliance, including control mappings, hardening evidence, security documentation, POA&M inputs, retesting, and closure support.
- Guide Informatica architecture, data integration, performance testing, interoperability, monitoring, and operational readiness.
- Review and approve technical designs, scripts, code, configurations, tests, diagrams, runbooks, and deployment packages.
- Coordinate technical risks, issue resolution, root-cause analysis, vendor activities, sprint planning, milestone reviews, Government briefings, and stakeholder decisions.
- Deliver hands-on knowledge transfer to NAVSUP administrators and engineers for operating, maintaining, recovering, and enhancing the solution.
Requirements
- A 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 is required.
- At least 10 years of senior-level experience architecting and working with enterprise platforms in AWS or AWS GovCloud from design through production operations is required.
- Strong knowledge of cloud computing, storage, networking, security groups, load balancing, identity and access management, encryption, monitoring, performance, capacity, and cost optimization is required.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, Configuration as Code, Security or Policy as Code, automated testing, Git-based version control, and CI/CD pipelines is required.
- Experience designing high availability, backup, disaster recovery, RTO/RPO, failover, restoration testing, and rollback for production systems is required.
- Working knowledge of enterprise APIs, data integration, data governance, metadata, data quality, and relational data-warehouse architectures is required.
- Knowledge of RMF/ATO, STIGs, NIST 800-53 controls, system hardening, PKI, SSO, RBAC, logging, vulnerability remediation, and Zero Trust is required.
- Demonstrated ability to lead a small multidisciplinary engineering team and work with Government technical, security, contracting, and program stakeholders is required.
- U.S. citizenship, CAC eligibility, background investigation eligibility, and required privileged-access, training, certification, and NDA qualifications are required.
- Current DoD 8140.03 IAT Level II certification, such as CompTIA Security+ CE or an approved substitute, is required at the start of performance.
- An applicable AWS, Windows, Oracle, UNIX, or Linux computing-environment certification is required within six months.
- Preferred qualifications include AWS GovCloud and federal DevSecOps experience, AWS professional or specialty certifications, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Azure DevOps, MuleSoft, Informatica product experience, observability-platform integration, and Navy or federal systems experience.
Benefits
- Projected annualized compensation is $170,000 to $210,000 USD.
- The role supports NAVSUP Government systems and requires U.S. citizenship, CAC eligibility, and a final favorable T5, T5R, SSBI, or equivalent investigation before privileged access.
- Interim privileged access is authorized, subject to the stated certification and access requirements.
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.