Senior Computer Systems Engineer/Architect - Informatica

Na Ali'i Consulting & Sales, LLC.•Remote,

3d•$170,000 - $210,000

About The Position

Nakupuna Companies is seeking a Senior Computer Systems Engineer/Architect with Informatica expertise to provide solution-architecture execution strategy for an Informatica implementation in NAVSUP AWS GovCloud. The role supports NAVSUP Business Systems Center as the senior solution architect for designing, integrating, testing, deploying, documenting, and sustaining the Informatica Data Governance Suite in AWS GovCloud. The position develops cross-platform architecture and engineering standards for high availability, disaster recovery, security, Everything as Code, CI/CD, monitoring, configuration management, and change control. It coordinates technical work across Informatica, database, cloud, cybersecurity, and testing workstreams, while managing dependencies and risks and ensuring technical artifacts are secure, reproducible, supportable, and ready for Government review. The role also supports RMF/ATO activities, performance and capacity planning, operational readiness, and knowledge transfer to NAVSUP personnel.

Requirements

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 implementing 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 API, 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 directly with Government technical, security, contracting, and program stakeholders.
Ability to critically review technical work, resolve cross-platform issues, manage risk, and maintain clear architecture and operational documentation.
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 the start of performance: CompTIA Security+ CE or a PWS-listed substitute (CCNA, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, or CND).
An applicable computing-environment certification in AWS, Windows, Oracle, UNIX, or Linux is required within six months, coordinated to the assigned environment.
CAC eligibility and a final, favorably adjudicated T5, T5R, SSBI, or equivalent investigation before privileged access is granted; interim privileged access is authorized.

Nice To Haves

A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or a related technical field is preferred.
Recent AWS GovCloud architecture and DevSecOps experience supporting DoD or other Federal production systems.
Current AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, AWS Security Specialty, or comparable certification.
Experience with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, or comparable IaC/CaC tooling and Azure DevOps repositories and pipelines.
Architecture or technical-lead experience involving MuleSoft Anypoint Platform and Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog, Axon, Data Quality, or PowerCenter.
Experience integrating CloudWatch, Splunk, AppDynamics, or comparable observability platforms with enterprise applications.
Prior experience with Navy data, WDP/Jupiter, Flank Speed, Microsoft Power Platform, logistics systems, or Government API-management initiatives.

Responsibilities

Develop high-availability architecture recommendations and agile prototypes, including component sizing, dependencies, network design, compute, storage, load balancing, capacity, and cost considerations.
Define reliability objectives, RTO and RPO targets, failover strategies, backup and retention methods, restoration procedures, disaster-recovery tests, and rollback plans.
Lead the Everything as Code approach across infrastructure, configuration, security, governance policy, testing, and CI/CD deployment, ensuring reproducible artifacts are retained in Government version control.
Design AWS GovCloud resources and controls, including EC2, S3, networking, routing, security groups, load balancers, IAM roles, service accounts, logging, monitoring, and approved encryption.
Establish technical standards for source control, branching, peer review, automated testing and deployment, configuration management, and change control.
Lead security engineering for PKI, SSO, LDAP, OCSP, certificates, RBAC, least privilege, Zero Trust, logging, vulnerability remediation, and integration with NAVSUP security operations.
Coordinate RMF/ATO and STIG compliance activities, including control mappings, diagrams, system-security documentation, hardening evidence, POA&M inputs, retesting, and closure support.
Guide Informatica platform architecture, data integration, performance testing, interoperability, and operational-readiness decisions across the team.
Review and approve internal technical designs, scripts, code, configurations, tests, diagrams, runbooks, and deployment packages for quality, consistency, security, and supportability.
Establish continuous monitoring for availability, performance, errors, capacity, cost, API metrics, and data-quality indicators using CloudWatch, Splunk, AppDynamics, Informatica, or comparable tools.
Coordinate technical risk management, issue resolution, root-cause analysis, vendor coordination, sprint planning, milestone reviews, Government briefings, and stakeholder decision support.
Plan and deliver hands-on knowledge transfer so NAVSUP administrators and engineers can operate, maintain, recover, and enhance the solution.
Perform other related duties as assigned.