Cyber Security Architect - Contract

HRM Search Partners; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

HRM Search Partners are recruiting a senior Recovery Architecture Lead to design and deliver a new third-site disaster recovery capability for an enterprise infrastructure environment.

This high-visibility, senior technical architecture role focuses on cyber recovery, infrastructure resilience, and business continuity. You will assess the current environment, define recovery requirements, develop the target architecture, and produce detailed solution designs to support implementation planning.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of dedicated experience in Infrastructure Architecture, Recovery Architecture, or Technical Architecture within enterprise environments.
• Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise DR systems, data protection technologies, backup, replication, cyber recovery, immutable storage, recovery vaults, and DR orchestration.
• Hands-on experience with air-gapped recovery solutions and cyber recovery vaults.
• Strong experience producing high-quality HLDs and LLDs.
• Proven expertise in recovery strategy, business continuity, and resilience planning for mission-critical operations.

Responsibilities

• Resilience & Capability Assessment: Assess current backup, recovery, and resilience capabilities across critical enterprise systems.
• Requirements & Strategy Definition: Define recovery requirements, including strict RTO and RPO targets.
• Target Architecture Design: Design a robust, scalable third-site disaster recovery architecture.
• Technical Design Production: Produce comprehensive High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs).
• Operational Readiness: Define recovery runbooks, operational procedures, and automated recovery workflows.
• Supplier & Technology Evaluation: Lead technology evaluations and evaluate incoming supplier proposals.
• End-to-End Recovery Solutions: Define recovery architectures across infrastructure, application, database, and identity platforms.
• Testing & Governance: Support disaster recovery testing and operational readiness while presenting designs to architectural and governance boards.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate closely with infrastructure, security, networking, and application delivery teams throughout project execution.

Skills

Recovery Architecture

Enterprise DR

Cyber Recovery

HLD/LLD

Governance

Workshops facilitation

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Job description

HRM Search Partners are recruiting a senior Recovery Architecture Lead to design and deliver a new third-site disaster recovery capability for an enterprise infrastructure environment.

This is a high-visibility, senior technical architecture role focused on cyber recovery, infrastructure resilience, and business continuity. The successful candidate will assess the current environment, define recovery requirements, develop the target architecture, produce detailed solution designs, and support implementation planning as part of a major enterprise backup and recovery programme.

Key Responsibilities

• Resilience & Capability Assessment: Assess current backup, recovery, and resilience capabilities across critical enterprise systems.
• Requirements & Strategy Definition: Define recovery requirements, including strict RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) targets.
• Target Architecture Design: Design a robust, scalable third-site disaster recovery architecture.
• Technical Design Production: Produce comprehensive High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs).
• Operational Readiness: Define recovery runbooks, operational procedures, and automated recovery workflows.
• Supplier & Technology Evaluation: Lead technology evaluations and evaluate incoming supplier proposals.
• End-to-End Recovery Solutions: Define recovery architectures across infrastructure, application, database, and identity platforms.
• Testing & Governance: Support disaster recovery testing and operational readiness while presenting designs to architectural and governance boards.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate closely with infrastructure, security, networking, and application delivery teams throughout project execution.

Essential Experience & Technical Requirements

• Architecture Track Record: 8+ years of dedicated experience in Infrastructure Architecture, Recovery Architecture, or Technical Architecture within enterprise environments.
• Enterprise Disaster Recovery & Data Protection: Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise DR systems, data protection technologies, backup, replication, cyber recovery, immutable storage, recovery vaults, and DR orchestration.
• Advanced Cyber Recovery: Hands-on experience with air-gapped recovery solutions and cyber recovery vaults.
• Technical Documentation: Strong experience producing high-quality HLDs and LLDs.
• Business Continuity: Proven expertise in recovery strategy, business continuity, and resilience planning for mission-critical operations.

Technical Ecosystem Exposure:

• VMware vSphere environments.
• Microsoft Active Directory architecture and recovery.
• Microsoft SQL Server and/or Oracle database recovery.
• Windows and Linux enterprise platform recovery.
• OpenShift and/or Kubernetes container platform recovery.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Experience running technical workshops and presenting to governance boards.

Ideal Candidate Profile

Proven track record of successfully delivering one or more of the following:

• Enterprise third-site disaster recovery solutions.
• Cyber recovery vault implementations.
• Large-scale backup and recovery transformation programmes.
• Enterprise-wide infrastructure resilience initiatives.
• Recovery architecture supporting critical 24x7 operational services.

Suitable Backgrounds: Disaster Recovery Architect | Recovery Architect | Infrastructure Architect | Backup & Recovery Architect | Resilience Architect | Technical Infrastructure Architect | Cyber Recovery Architect