We are seeking an experienced Disaster Recovery Architect to design, lead, and enhance enterprise-wide Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery (DR), and Operational Resilience capabilities. The role focuses on developing resilient architectures across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments to ensure critical services can recover from technology outages, cyber incidents, and major disruptions.
Key Responsibilities
- Define enterprise Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, and Operational Resilience strategies, standards, and roadmaps.
- Design DR architectures across Azure, AWS, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
- Define and manage Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), application dependencies, and recovery priorities.
- Conduct Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and develop recovery strategies, runbooks, and playbooks.
- Architect high availability, backup, replication, immutable backup, and secure recovery solutions.
- Lead DR automation and orchestration, including failover, failback, recovery validation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and scripting.
- Integrate cyber recovery strategies with cybersecurity and incident response processes.
- Plan and lead DR testing, tabletop exercises, failover simulations, and business continuity exercises.
- Establish recovery KPIs, resilience metrics, audit controls, and remediation plans.
- Collaborate with business, infrastructure, cloud, security, and application teams to improve enterprise resilience.
- Provide technical leadership, governance, and guidance on industry standards, regulatory requirements, and resilience best practices.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in technology architecture, infrastructure, disaster recovery, or operational resilience.
- 7+ years of experience leading enterprise Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery programs.
- Proven experience designing DR solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
- Strong knowledge of BIA, recovery strategies, RTO/RPO management, and application dependency mapping.
- Experience with large-scale DR testing, recovery automation, and resilience modernization.
- Strong stakeholder management, technical leadership, and communication skills.