Senior Disaster Recovery Architect

Ian Martin Group

Toronto

Hybrid

CAD 120,000 - 190,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Ian Martin Group is seeking a Technical Architecture Specialist in Toronto to provide senior-level technical expertise for the City’s Disaster Recovery Program and resilience initiatives. Hybrid work arrangement supported.

You will collaborate with application owners, infrastructure teams, architects, cybersecurity, and vendors to design, validate, and implement DR strategies, runbooks, and recovery procedures, ensuring RTOs and RPOs are met.

Qualifications

Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
Minimum 10 years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, architecture, disaster recovery, or related technical disciplines.
Experience designing, implementing, reviewing, or testing DR, failover technologies and high-availability solutions in large enterprise environments.
Experience in application and IT infrastructure recovery architectures, readiness assessments, and technical risk assessments.
Experience working with cross-functional technical and business stakeholders.
Experience in implementing wide spectrum of technologies - Windows, Linux, VMware, storage, databases, networking, and cybersecurity technologies.
Experience in a large public-sector or highly regulated environment.
Industry certifications: CBCP, MBCI, ISO 22301, ITIL, TOGAF, Azure, AWS, or other related certifications.
Demonstrate superior project management skills and experience in the full lifecycle of technology implementation and configuration.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently.
Ability to translate complex technical concepts into executable recommendations.
Excellent written & verbal communication skills (comfortable & confident) communicating at all levels including business partners, leadership, internal teams and vendors.

Responsibilities

Provide senior-level technical expertise to support the City’s Disaster Recovery Program and enterprise resilience initiatives.
Work closely with application owners, infrastructure owners, solution architects, cybersecurity teams, project teams, operational teams, and vendors.
Provide technical leadership across recovery planning, architecture, implementation, testing, readiness assessment, and continual improvement.
Serve as a disaster recovery technical subject-matter expert.
Help ensure recovery solutions are practical, secure, supportable, aligned with City requirements, and capable of meeting approved Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).
Review and challenge technical assumptions, identify gaps and dependencies, and recommend proportionate risk treatments.
Assess application and infrastructure recovery architectures.
Support the development and review of technical recovery strategies, plans, runbooks, and procedures.
Coordinate cross-functional recovery activities.
Support recovery solution implementation.
Lead or facilitate DR testing and validation.
Document findings, maintain traceability to requirements, and support closure or formal disposition of identified risks and issues.
Apply broad knowledge of enterprise infrastructure and application dependencies, including compute, virtualization, operating systems, storage, backup and recovery, databases, networks, security controls, identity services, cloud platforms, and high-availability technologies.
Translate complex technical information into clear options, decisions, risks, and actions for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Transition, following completion of the current DR project, into DR program sustainment activities.
Support sustainment through governance support, periodic architecture and plan reviews, testing coordination, compliance monitoring, reporting, remediation tracking, readiness assessments, and ongoing improvement of recovery capabilities.