Senior Data & DevSecOps Engineer

Overview

Design, secure, and automate data pipelines and DevSecOps for DHA's federated data ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

• ingestion pipelines
• metadata harvesting
• automation scripts
• performance testing
• compliance reporting
• governance enforcement

Tasks

-Grow People: Take ownership of your work and actively contribute to team success by sharing expertise, mentoring colleagues, and supporting leadership development at every level. -10: Deliver transition playbooks, automation scripts, and sustainment knowledge transfer. -3–5: Enforce automated governance and lifecycle policies in data pipelines. -Conduct infrastructure and workload performance testing, producing technical validation reports. -1–2: Contribute secure harvesting and automation to support inventory and metadata management. -Provide technical support for transition activities, including knowledge transfer and documentation. -Collaborate with metadata SMEs, analysts, and DHA stakeholders to align harvesting and integration practices with governance and lifecycle policies. -Design, configure, and maintain secure ingestion pipelines and data connectors for DHA enterprise systems. -Always Deliver: Consistently meet or exceed quality standards, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of assigned tasks and deliverables in support of DHA and Nakupuna Federal. -Automate metadata harvesting and tagging processes, ensuring classification accuracy across domains. -Integrate Zero Trust principles into all ingestion and access workflows. -6–7: Conduct UAT support, automate QA checks, and run stress/performance tests. -8–9: Develop reusable components and validate AI/ML pipeline readiness with automated compliance. -Contribute to compliance reporting, catalog accuracy assessments, and validation of secure data flows. -Ensure DHA data catalog solutions remain interoperable with broader DoD data environments (ADVANA, VAULTIS, VANTAGE, MAVEN).

Requirements

• hipaa
• ai/ml
• devsecops
• secret clearance
• advana
• bachelor's

What You Bring

-Knowledge of healthcare data security standards (HIPAA, NIST SP 800-171, DFARS 252.204-7012). -Demonstrated understanding of HIPAA, PHI/PII/CUI protections, and compliance with NIST SP 800-171 and DFARS 252.204-7012. -Knowledge of AI/ML pipeline integration and security requirements. -Experience supporting the Military Health System (MHS) or DHA initiatives. -Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or related technical field required. -8–10+ years in data integration, cybersecurity, or DevSecOps roles. Must demonstrate experience designing secure pipelines, building CI/CD workflows, and automating compliance validation in federal or healthcare environments. -Familiarity with DoD enterprise data platforms (ADVANA, VAULTIS, VANTAGE, MAVEN). -Must have the ability to obtain a Secret clearance. -Background in infrastructure stress testing and performance optimization. -Ability to perform repetitive motions with the hands, wrists, and fingers. -Ability to sit for prolonged periods at a desk and working on a computer. -Ability to engage in and follow audible communications in emergency situations. -Proven ability to evaluate and recommend COTS integration tools, ensuring cost-effectiveness, scalability, and security.

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About Nakupuna Companies

-Blends national reach with small‑business agility. -Headquartered in Hawai‘i with expansion hubs in Arlington, Denver, Mechanicsburg, PA, Charleston, and Patuxent River. -Services include mission and business operations, custom software/IT, facilities & infrastructure, logistics, and environmental services. -Projects involve modernizing personnel systems and managing complex logistics and environmental programs for federal agencies. -Structured as a Native Hawaiian Organization‑owned group, uniting large and 8(a) small businesses under one agile umbrella.

Sector Specialisms

Security Clearance

-must be able to obtain a secret security clearance