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 and secure AWS GovCloud resources including EC2, S3, networking, routing, security groups, load balancers, IAM roles, logging, monitoring, and encryption.
- Establish standards for source control, branching, peer review, automated testing, automated deployment, configuration management, and change control.
- Lead security engineering involving PKI, SSO, LDAP, OCSP, certificates, RBAC, least privilege, Zero Trust, logging, and vulnerability remediation.
- Coordinate RMF/ATO and STIG compliance activities, including control mappings, hardening evidence, security documentation, POA&M inputs, retesting, and closure support.
- Guide Informatica platform architecture, data integration, performance testing, interoperability, and operational readiness.
- Review technical designs, scripts, code, configurations, tests, diagrams, runbooks, and deployment packages for quality, security, and supportability.
- Establish continuous monitoring for availability, performance, errors, capacity, cost, API metrics, and data quality using observability tools.
- 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 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 and working with 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.
- Ability to lead a small multidisciplinary engineering team, resolve cross-platform issues, manage risk, and communicate 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.
- Preferred experience includes AWS GovCloud and federal DevSecOps, relevant AWS certifications, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Azure DevOps, MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, Informatica products, and observability platforms.
- 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 computing-environment certification in AWS, Windows, Oracle, UNIX, or Linux is required within six months.
- CAC eligibility and a final favorably adjudicated T5, T5R, SSBI, or equivalent investigation are required before privileged access is granted.
Benefits
- Projected annualized compensation is $170,000.00 to $210,000.00 USD as part of a broader total compensation package.
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.