Infrastructure Recovery Engineer

Cathara Consulting; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Career development

Competitive salary

Collaborative team environment

Job summary

Cathara Consulting is seeking an Infrastructure Recovery Engineer to support a major technology uplift across a critical infrastructure environment. This role will be central to ensuring a new platform is brought into service with enterprise-grade recoverability, supportability, and reliability from day one.

Designing and implementing site recovery capabilities, developing runbooks and technical documentation, and leading recovery testing will be core responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and managing site recovery and business continuity solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure technologies including servers, storage, networks, virtualization, and cloud/hybrid environments.
• Proven ability to design and optimise backup, replication and recovery solutions that meet defined RTO and RPO.
• Experience developing operational procedures, runbooks and technical documentation.
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills with stakeholder engagement capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing site recovery capabilities for a business-critical system.
• Developing and enhancing operational support processes, runbooks, and technical documentation.
• Ensuring new infrastructure integrations meet operational standards and recovery requirements.
• Designing, implementing and optimising backup, replication and recovery solutions.
• Leading recovery testing, validation and failover exercises to prove recovery outcomes and identify improvements.
• Identifying risks, troubleshooting issues and driving continuous improvement in platform resilience.

Skills

Disaster recovery

Site recovery

Business continuity

Infrastructure resilience

Backup and replication

Operational readiness

Recovery testing

Stakeholder engagement

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

Servers

Storage

Networks

Virtualisation

Cloud platforms

Job description

Cathara Consulting is seeking anInfrastructure Recovery Engineerto support a major technology uplift across a critical infrastructure environment. This role will be central to ensuring a new platform is brought into service with enterprise-grade recoverability, supportability, and reliability from day one.

Bring your expertise in disaster recovery, infrastructure resilience, backup and replication, operational readiness, and recovery testing to help deliver reliable, resilient platforms that minimise disruption to critical services during incidents.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing site recovery capabilities for a business-critical system.
• Developing and enhancing operational support processes, runbooks, and technical documentation.
• Ensuring new infrastructure integrations meet agreed operational standards and recovery requirements.
• Designing, implementing, and optimising backup, replication, and recovery solutions.
• Leading recovery testing, validation, and failover exercises to prove recovery outcomes and identify improvement opportunities.
• Identifying risks, troubleshooting issues, and driving continuous improvement in platform resilience.

About You

• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and managing site recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure technologies, including servers, storage, networks, virtualisation, cloud platforms, and hybrid environments.
• Proven ability to design, implement, and optimise backup, replication, and recovery solutions that meet defined Recovery Time Objectives and Recovery Point Objectives.
• Experience developing operational procedures, technical documentation, support models, and recovery runbooks.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to identify risks, root causes, and improvement opportunities.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and operational teams.

Why Join Cathara

At Cathara, we partner closely with our clients to solve complex business challenges and deliver practical outcomes. Our consultants work directly with executive leadership teams on some of the most important transformation initiatives across Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

We offer:

• Opportunity to contribute to major technology uplift within a critical infrastructure environment
• Work with infrastructure, operations, and technical teams
• Flexible and collaborative working environment
• Strong pipeline of transformation and advisory work

If you are an experienced disaster recovery or infrastructure resilience professional who enjoys working across complex technology environments, we would like to hear from you.