Overview
The Disaster Recovery & Recovery Architecture Lead will spearhead the development of a new third-site disaster recovery capability for a critical infrastructure organization. In this senior technical role, the contractor will assess existing systems, define recovery requirements, and collaborate with various teams to ensure robust business continuity and cyber recovery processes for critical 24x7 services.
Responsibilities
- Assess current backup, recovery and resilience capabilities.
- Define recovery requirements, including RTO and RPO targets.
- Design the third-site disaster recovery solution.
- Produce High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs).
- Define recovery runbooks, operational procedures and recovery workflows.
- Lead technology evaluations and review supplier proposals.
- Support DR testing and operational readiness.
- Present designs to technical and governance boards.
Requirements
- 5+ years in infrastructure, recovery or technical design roles.
- Hands-on experience designing and delivering enterprise DR and data protection solutions.
- Experience with air-gapped recovery solutions and cyber recovery vaults.
- Strong grounding in recovery strategy, business continuity and resilience planning.
- Proficient with VMware vSphere, Microsoft Active Directory recovery, SQL Server and/or Oracle recovery.
- Confidence leading technical workshops and engaging stakeholders at all levels.
- Experience producing High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs).
- Desirable background in delivering third-site DR solutions and enterprise backup transformations.