Systems Architect, Disaster Recovery- #26-25271

Duration: 12 months
Job Description:

• Join the Enterprise Business & Digital Transformation team as a Disaster Recovery (DR) System Architect. You will design implement and evolve resilient high availability architectures for critical applications and services across cloud (AWS Clienture GCP).
• Your work will directly enable mission critical operations to meet stringent continuity and recovery time objectives (RTO/RPO) while supporting rapid automated fail over and restoration.

Responsibilities:

• Architectural Leadership
  • Define end to end DR and high availability (HA) architectures for enterprise wide workloads incorporating multi region cloud hybrid and on prem solutions.
  • Develop architectural blueprints reference designs and pattern libraries that align with security compliance and cost optimization policies.
• Solution Design & Implementation
  • Design and implement automated fail over replication and fail back mechanisms (e.g. Site Recovery Manager Kubernetes based HA database mirroring storage level replication).
  • Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies (e.g. Immutable Infrastructure Chaos Engineering Serverless DR) to improve resiliency and reduce mean time to recover (MTTR).
• Governance & Compliance
  • Ensure all DR solutions meet corporate policies CRX 301 CRX 302 and relevant regulatory requirements (e.g. NIST 800 34 ISO 22301 FedRAMP).
  • Create and maintain DR documentation run books and test plans; conduct periodic reviews and updates.
• Testing & Validation
  • Lead full scale DR exercise planning execution and post mortem analysis for multi site multi cloud environments.
  • Define success criteria metrics and KPIs; report findings to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Stakeholder Collaboration
  • Partner with IT Infrastructure Cloud Engineering Application Development Security and Governance teams to embed DR/HA considerations early in the SDLC.
  • Serve as the technical authority for DR during design reviews (SRR PDR CDR TRR) and program risk assessments.
• Continuous Improvement
  • Conduct risk assessments threat modeling and capacity planning to anticipate emerging resiliency challenges.
  • Drive adoption of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and automated documentation tools to keep architecture artefacts current.
• DR Plan Modernization & Compliance
  • Review existing DR plan architectures across the enterprise assessing their alignment with current resilience standards best practices and organizational Recovery Objectives.
  • Collaborate with internal teams (Application Owners IT Service Managers Engineering) to update and refine DR plans ensuring that all applications and IT services meet the latest RTO/RPO targets.
  • Develop and implement remediation plans to bring legacy systems and applications up to date with modern resilience standards ensuring compliance with corporate policies (CRX 301 CRX 302) and regulatory requirements.
  • Track progress and report status to senior leadership providing insights into plan modernization efforts and risk mitigation strategies.

Experience:

• 5 years of experience designing and implementing DR/HA solutions for enterprise scale workloads in cloud hybrid and on prem environments.

Skillsets:

• Proven hands on experience with cloud platforms (AWS Clienture GCP) and related services (e.g. Disaster Recovery Site Recovery Manager cross region replication networking IAM).
• Strong understanding of networking storage virtualization container orchestration (Kubernetes) and database technologies as they relate to resiliency.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non technical audiences.
• U.S. citizenship required

Education:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or a related technical discipline (or equivalent experience).

Additional Qualifications:

• Familiarity with automated disaster recovery (DR) solutions including but not limited to:
  • AmClienton Web Services (AWS) Disaster Recovery Service (DRS): Experience with configuring and managing replication fail over and fail back processes for AWS workloads.
  • Microsoft Clienture Site Recovery (ASR): Knowledge of setting up and managing site recovery between on premises environments Clienture and other clouds.
  • Zerto: Hands on experience with continuous data protection (CDP) and near zero RPO replication across VMware Hyper V and cloud environments.
  • Veeam Backup & Replication: Experience with agent less backup replication and automated fail over testing for virtual physical and cloud workloads.
  • IBM Resiliency Services (formerly IBM Disaster Recovery as a Service): Familiarity with managed DR services for hybrid cloud environments including integration with IBM Cloud and on premises infrastructure.
• Experience with DR automation including:
  • Scripting and integration with IaC tools (Terraform CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins GitLab) to automate DR workflows.
  • DR exercise planning and execution including defining success criteria metrics and KPIs for recovery processes.
• Strong analytical skills: ability to perform risk assessments impact analysis and cost benefit modeling for DR solutions.
• Hybrid/multi-cloud deployments with ability to manage DR across multiple cloud providers and on premises environments.
• Advanced certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Clienture Solutions Architect Expert VMware VCAP DCV).

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