Senior Computer Systems Engineer – Informatica

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop a solution architecture execution strategy for the Informatica implementation within NAVSUP AWS GovCloud.

• Serve as a senior solution architect for the NAVSUP Business Systems Center, focusing on design, integration, testing, deployment, documentation, and ongoing support for the Informatica Data Governance Suite.

• Create cross-platform architecture and engineering standards to ensure high availability, disaster recovery, security, Everything as Code, CI/CD, monitoring, configuration management, and change control.

• Oversee technical activities across various workstreams, including Informatica, database, cloud, cybersecurity, and testing.

• Recognize architecture dependencies and risks while ensuring that technical artifacts are secure, reproducible, supportable, and prepared for Government review.

• Assist with RMF/ATO activities, performance and capacity planning, operational readiness, and knowledge transfer to NAVSUP staff.

• Propose high-availability architecture recommendations and agile prototypes that encompass sizing, dependencies, network design, compute, storage, load balancing, capacity, and cost considerations.

• Establish reliability objectives, RTO/RPO targets, failover strategies, backup and retention methods, restoration procedures, disaster recovery tests, and rollback plans.

• Drive Everything as Code initiatives 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 approved encryption.

• Set standards for source control, branching, peer review, automated testing, automated deployment, configuration management, and change control.

• Lead security engineering initiatives involving PKI, SSO, LDAP, OCSP, certificates, RBAC, least privilege, Zero Trust, logging, vulnerability remediation, and NAVSUP security operations integration.

• Coordinate RMF/ATO and STIG compliance efforts, including control mappings, diagrams, system security documentation, hardening evidence, POA&M inputs, retesting, and closure support.

• Provide guidance on Informatica platform architecture, data integration, performance testing, interoperability, and operational readiness decisions.

• Review and approve technical designs, scripts, code, configurations, tests, diagrams, runbooks, and deployment packages.

• Implement continuous monitoring for availability, performance, errors, capacity, cost, API metrics, and data quality indicators.

• Manage technical risk, issue resolution, root-cause analysis, vendor coordination, sprint planning, milestone reviews, Government briefings, and stakeholder decision support.

• Organize and deliver hands-on knowledge transfer sessions to empower NAVSUP administrators and engineers to operate, maintain, recover, and enhance the solution.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of hands-on experience with Informatica.

• At least 10 years of senior-level experience in architecting and working with enterprise platforms in AWS or AWS GovCloud from design through to production operations.

• Strong understanding of cloud computing, storage, networking, security groups, load balancing, identity and access management, encryption, monitoring, performance, capacity, and cost optimization.

• Proficient in implementing Infrastructure as Code, Configuration as Code, Security or Policy as Code, automated testing, Git-based version control, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience in designing high availability, backup, disaster recovery, RTO/RPO, failover, restoration testing, and rollback strategies for production systems.

• Working knowledge of enterprise API, data integration, data governance, metadata, data quality, and relational data warehouse architectures.

• In-depth knowledge of RMF/ATO, STIGs, NIST 800-53 controls, system hardening, PKI, SSO, RBAC, logging, vulnerability remediation, and Zero Trust concepts.

• Proven capability to lead a small multidisciplinary engineering team and collaborate directly with Government technical, security, contracting, and program stakeholders.

• Ability to critically evaluate technical work, resolve cross-platform issues, manage risks, and maintain clear architecture and operational documentation.

• U.S. citizenship is required.

• Must meet all 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 an equivalent 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.

• CAC eligibility and a final, favorably adjudicated T5, T5R, SSBI, or equivalent investigation are required before granting privileged access.

• A Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or a related technical field is preferred.

• Preferred: Recent experience with AWS GovCloud architecture and DevSecOps in support of DoD or other Federal production systems.

• Preferred: AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, AWS Security Specialty, or a comparable current certification.

• Preferred: Experience utilizing Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, or comparable IaC/CaC tools and Azure DevOps repositories and pipelines.

• Preferred: Architecture or technical lead experience with MuleSoft Anypoint Platform and Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog, Axon, Data Quality, or PowerCenter.

• Preferred: Familiarity with integrating CloudWatch, Splunk, AppDynamics, or comparable observability platforms with enterprise applications.

• Preferred: Previous experience with Navy data, WDP/Jupiter, Flank Speed, Microsoft Power Platform, logistics systems, or Government API management initiatives.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• HSAs and FSAs.

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer contributions.

• Paid time off and holidays.

• Life and disability insurance.

• Employee assistance programs.

• Tuition assistance and opportunities for professional development.

• Military differential pay.

• Additional voluntary benefit programs.