Infrastructure Architect (DDIL SME)

Pay: $75.53 - $124.62 hourly, depending on experience

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Paid Holidays, Employee Assistance Program, and other company-sponsored benefits Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI Polygraph Focus Areas: DDIL, Zero Trust, Distributed Systems, Identity & Access Management, Edge Computing, Mission Resilience

Do you enjoy solving complex technology challenges where connectivity cannot be assumed? Can you balance security, usability, and mission requirements in environments where enterprise services may be slow, disrupted, intermittent, or unavailable?

PEMCCO is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect (DDIL SME) to guide the design and implementation of systems that operate effectively under denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited (DDIL) connectivity conditions. This role focuses on resilient architectures, distributed systems, identity services, cybersecurity, and mission continuity.

The ideal candidate understands how applications, identity services, authorization systems, data platforms, and communications networks interact when traditional enterprise connectivity is unavailable, and can translate operational challenges into practical architectural solutions.

About PEMCCO

PEMCCO delivers engineering, technology, cybersecurity, and mission support services to federal government customers. Our teams develop and sustain innovative solutions that help customers modernize systems, strengthen security, and support mission-critical operations.

Job Overview

PEMCCO is seeking a DDIL Subject Matter Expert to provide technical leadership for systems operating in constrained and disconnected environments.

In this role, you will work with stakeholders, engineers, and architects to evaluate mission requirements, assess operational constraints, and develop resilient architectures that maintain critical capabilities despite degraded connectivity. You will help define how identity services, access controls, data, applications, and security functions operate locally while maintaining alignment with enterprise systems.

This position is ideal for professionals with experience designing distributed systems, resilient architectures, edge computing solutions, or mission systems that must continue functioning despite network disruption.

What You'll Do

• Develop DDIL strategies, architectural approaches, and implementation roadmaps for mission applications and supporting services.
• Work with stakeholders to define operational scenarios, connectivity constraints, mission priorities, and acceptable levels of degraded operations.
• Translate operational requirements into technical solutions addressing autonomy, synchronization, latency, bandwidth limitations, and recovery.
• Define architectural approaches for identity, authorization, directory, credential, and data protection services operating with limited connectivity.
• Design approaches for local identity services, attribute caching, replication, and synchronization.
• Establish strategies for credential validation, authorization decisions, policy updates, and access control during connectivity outages.
• Evaluate access-control tradeoffs and risk-based approaches for maintaining mission operations while preserving security.
• Design synchronization and reconnection strategies addressing stale data, conflicting updates, audit records, and recovery processes.
• Assess dependencies among applications, identity services, directories, policy engines, encryption services, and key-management systems.
• Evaluate data placement, replication, protection, and synchronization requirements across distributed environments.
• Develop architecture documentation, alternatives analyses, implementation plans, and technical recommendations.
• Support testing, demonstrations, and proof-of-concept activities to validate architectural assumptions.
• Define performance measures and acceptance criteria for mission continuity, resiliency, security, and recovery objectives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, engineers, cybersecurity professionals, and technical teams to guide implementation efforts and resolve architectural challenges.

What You Bring

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.
• Demonstrated experience designing, evaluating, or implementing systems that operate under denied, disrupted, intermittent, or limited connectivity conditions.
• Experience developing architectures that support disconnected operations, local processing, and synchronization with enterprise services.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts including replication, consistency, caching, conflict resolution, and recovery.
• Experience addressing authentication, authorization, credential management, and identity-service dependencies in constrained environments.
• Understanding of access-control, identity-management, and security challenges associated with degraded connectivity.
• Experience evaluating bandwidth, latency, packet loss, and network constraints and their impact on system performance.
• Experience developing technical strategies, architecture documentation, alternatives analyses, and implementation roadmaps.
• Ability to communicate architectural tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working across cybersecurity, infrastructure, software development, and operational teams.
• Experience establishing or evaluating local policy enforcement, access-control mechanisms, or edge-computing solutions.

Preferred Experience

• Experience supporting Intelligence Community, defense, or other complex mission environments.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) solutions, identity federation, virtual directories, or identity synchronization.
• Experience implementing attribute-based access control (ABAC), policy-based enforcement, or Zero Trust security architectures.
• Experience with distributed data platforms, synchronization services, or disconnected operations.
• Experience supporting Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), credential services, certificate management, or encryption technologies.
• Experience establishing data-protection controls for distributed or disconnected environments.
• Experience with cloud and edge technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, OpenShift, or hybrid deployment models.
• Experience supporting cross-domain information sharing or multi-organization collaboration environments.
• Experience conducting resiliency testing, network impairment testing, simulation activities, or operational demonstrations.
• Experience supporting tactical, expeditionary, edge, or other mission environments with constrained communications.

Why Join PEMCCO?

• Help solve some of the most challenging problems in distributed systems, resilience engineering, and mission continuity.
• Influence architecture and technical strategy for critical programs and emerging technologies.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, cybersecurity professionals, and operational stakeholders.
• Work on innovative solutions involving Zero Trust, identity services, edge computing, and distributed systems.
• Continue growing your expertise through complex technical challenges and mission-driven work.

Work Environment

• Full-time onsite position in a collaborative technical environment.
• Work closely with architects, software engineers, cybersecurity professionals, infrastructure teams, and technical leadership.
• Engage in architecture development, technical strategy, system integration, and technology evaluation efforts.
• Fast-paced environment focused on innovation, resilience, security, and solving complex operational challenges.
• Opportunities to work across multiple technology domains including distributed systems, identity services, cybersecurity, cloud platforms, networking, and edge technologies.

Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Additional company-sponsored benefits

Apply Today

If you are passionate about resilient system design, distributed architectures, Zero Trust principles, and mission-focused engineering, we encourage you to apply.

Join PEMCCO and help design the architectures, services, and strategies that keep critical capabilities operating when connectivity cannot be guaranteed.

Equal Opportunity Employer

PEMCCO, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. The Company does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.