Disaster Recovery (DR) & Zerto Consultant - Hyper V to VMware Environments

Position Title: Disaster Recovery (DR)
Zerto Consultant - Hyper V to VMware Environments
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
Job Summary
Seeking an experienced Disaster Recovery (DR)
Zerto Consultant to support the design, validation, and execution of disaster recovery operations for a production Hyper V-based environment with replication to a VMware based DR tenant. The consultant will play a critical role in failover testing, recovery orchestration, cross hypervisor recovery, and the development of detailed DR runbooks to ensure business continuity.
Key Responsibilities
Disaster Recovery
Failover Execution
Execute and validate Zerto-based failover and test failover operations for production workloads replicated from Hyper V to VMware environments.
Bring replicated Active Directory Domain Controllers in isolated DR networks and validate directory services availability.
Recover VM groups in a defined dependency-based sequence, ensuring proper service initialization and stability.
Manage staggered VM startup to prevent service contention and application failures during recovery.
Cross Hypervisor Recovery Support
Support and validate Hyper V to VMware recovery scenarios using Zerto.
Ensure VMware Tools are leveraged for guest customization, network injection, and system configuration during DR boot up.
Windows Infrastructure
Application Services
Provide hands-on support for Windows Server workloads including:
Active Directory / Domain Controllers
DNS
DHCP
IIS
Dependent Windows services
Validate application and service dependencies post failover to ensure functional recovery.
Networking
IP Remediation
Execute and validate network re IP operations during failover due to non shared IP schemas between production and DR environments.
Verify inter server communication, DNS resolution, and service bindings after recovery.
Develop or assist with manual or orchestrated scripts/automation required for network and service remediation.
Failback
Validation
Validate DR procedures for both:
Live production failover events
Failback to production scenarios
Runbook
Documentation Development
Develop and refine Disaster Recovery runbooks using a provided template.
Document:
Step by step failover procedures
Dependency mapping
Recovery timing and sequencing
Failback processes
Update documentation iteratively based on validation testing results.
Required Skills
Experience
Technical Expertise
Hands on experience with Zerto replication and failover orchestration.
Proven experience with Hyper V to VMware disaster recovery scenarios.
Strong expertise in Windows Server environments, including AD, DNS, DHCP, and IIS.
Solid understanding of networking concepts, IP addressing, and DNS/service dependency remediation.
Operational Skills
Ability to plan and execute dependency aware recovery sequencing.
Experience supporting multi-site DR environments and isolated recovery networks.
Strong documentation and runbook development capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working with DartPoints datacenter or cloud portal environments.
Exposure to pilot light DR models and phased recovery strategies.
Experience coordinating with infrastructure, networking, and application SMEs.
Engagement Scope
Support DR testing and validation for production workloads hosted in customer datacenters.
Collaborate closely with internal infrastructure, networking, and application teams during planning and execution.
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