[Hiring] Senior Computer Systems Engineer/Architect @Nakupuna Companies

Role Description

Nakupuna Companies is seeking a Senior Computer Systems Engineer/Architect with Informatica expertise to join our team of talented consultants. The individual will provide solution architecture execution strategy for the Informatica implementation in NAVSUP AWS GovCloud. This role is responsible for:

• Cross-platform design
• Everything as Code approach
• Security architecture
• Availability and recovery strategy
• CI/CD practices
• Technical integration decisions
• Day-to-day engineering coordination needed to move the solution from architecture through production sustainment

The individual will support NAVSUP Business Systems Center as the senior solution architect for:

• Design, integration, testing, deployment, documentation, and sustainment of the Informatica Data Governance Suite within NAVSUP’s AWS GovCloud environment
• Developing cross-platform architecture and engineering standards for high availability, disaster recovery, security, Everything as Code, CI/CD, monitoring, configuration management, and change control
• Coordinating technical activities across the Informatica, database, cloud, cybersecurity, and testing workstreams
• Identifying architecture dependencies and risks
• Ensuring technical artifacts are secure, reproducible, supportable, and ready for Government review
• Supporting RMF/ATO activities, performance and capacity planning, operational readiness, and knowledge transfer to NAVSUP personnel

Qualifications

• Technical Leadership: Provides clear day-to-day direction across Informatica, AWS, security, testing, and sustainment work; reviews designs and engineering artifacts critically and resolves cross-platform risks before they reach production.
• Agile / DevSecOps: Turns architecture into prioritized, testable work with clear dependencies, acceptance criteria, and decision points; establishes repeatable source-control, peer-review, automated-testing, and CI/CD practices.
• Analytical / Problem Solving: Balances mission needs, security, reliability, performance, capacity, recovery, cost, and long-term supportability; uses evidence and prototypes to resolve uncertainty and clearly frames options for Government decisions.
• Communication / Teamwork: Communicates technical issues, risks, and tradeoffs in terms that both engineers and Government leaders can act on; creates a collaborative environment across a small multidisciplinary team and external stakeholders.
• Quality / Coaching: Sets and enforces standards for architecture, code, configuration, tests, diagrams, runbooks, and security evidence; builds Government ownership through practical mentoring, recorded walkthroughs, and current sustainment documentation.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or a related technical field is preferred.
• 7 years of hands-on Informatica experience.
• 10 years of senior-level experience architecting 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 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 review technical work critically, resolve cross-platform issues, manage risk, and maintain clear architecture and operational documentation.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to meet all privileged-access, background-investigation, CAC, SAAR, training, certification, and NDA requirements.

Benefits

• The projected compensation range for this position is $170,000.00 to $210,000.00 (annualized USD).
• The salary range displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Nakupuna Companies total compensation package for employees.