Disaster Recovery Architect

Click Digital; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 129,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Click Digital is seeking a senior Disaster Recovery Architect to lead the design of a new enterprise third-site DR capability. The role requires proven experience delivering complex DR, backup and cyber recovery solutions within large-scale infrastructure.

You will assess current recovery capabilities, define target-state architecture, set recovery requirements, and produce detailed designs to support implementation across a hybrid Dublin environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DR architecture or resilience architecture building enterprise DR capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop an enterprise third-site Disaster Recovery architecture.
• Assess existing backup, recovery and infrastructure resilience capabilities.
• Define target-state architecture, RTO/RPO requirements and recovery strategies.
• Design solutions covering backup, replication, immutable storage and cyber recovery.
• Produce High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs).
• Lead technical workshops, architecture reviews and stakeholder engagements.
• Support implementation planning and architectural governance.

Skills

Disaster Recovery

DR Architecture

RTO/RPO

VMware

Active Directory

SQL Server

Oracle

Windows

Linux

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Tools

VMware

Active Directory

SQL Server

Oracle

Windows

Linux

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Job description

Disaster Recovery Architect – North Dublin – Hybrid (3 days onsite) – 6 Month Day Rate Contract

We are looking for an experienced Disaster Recovery Architect to lead the design of a new enterprise level 3rd site Disaster Recovery (DR) capability.

This is a senior technical DR architecture role, requiring proven experience designing complex DR, backup and cyber recovery solutions within large-scale infrastructure environments.

You will assess existing recovery capabilities, define target‑state architecture, establish recovery requirements and produce detailed technical designs to support implementation.

The Role Responsibilities

• Design and develop an enterprise third‑site Disaster Recovery architecture.
• Assess existing backup, recovery and infrastructure resilience capabilities.
• Define RTO/RPO requirements and recovery strategies.
• Design solutions covering backup, replication, immutable storage and cyber recovery.
• Produce High‑Level Designs (HLDs) and Low‑Level Designs (LLDs).
• Lead technical workshops, architecture reviews and stakeholder engagements.
• Support implementation planning and architectural governance.

Essential Skills & Experience

• 5+ years' experience specifically as a DR Architect, Recovery Architect or Resilience Architect or if you’re an Infrastructure Architect who has personally owned DR architecture
• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise Disaster Recovery solutions.
• Strong knowledge of backup, replication, immutable storage, recovery vaults and DR orchestration.
• Experience with VMware, Active Directory, SQL Server/Oracle, Windows, Linux and/or Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Strong understanding of RTO, RPO and business continuity strategies.
• Proven HLD/LLD production experience.

Nice to Haves

• Third‑site DR programme experience.
• Cyber Recovery Vault implementations.
• Enterprise backup and recovery transformations.
• Experience supporting critical 24/7 operational environments.

Important: This is a specialist Disaster Recovery Architecture position. Candidates primarily focused on IAM, SOC, SIEM, GRC, compliance, risk or cloud security, without significant DR architecture experience, will NOT be of interest.

If you have the technical DR architecture experience to design and deliver enterprise scale recovery solutions, we'd like to hear from you.