Disaster Recovery Infrastructure Technical Lead

Atrium (EMEA); Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 83,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Atrium (EMEA) is seeking a Disaster Recovery Infrastructure Technical Lead to drive DR events and oversee testing across enterprise infrastructure. The role requires coordination with IT leadership and operations to communicate status, capabilities, and issues during DR exercises.

The ideal candidate will bring extensive DR experience, strong problem-solving, and a track record of delivering resilient infrastructure solutions across private, public, and hybrid clouds.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, MIS, CS or related discipline.
• Infrastructure engineer with enterprise-scale experience.
• DR experience and testing focus.
• Advanced technical problem-solving skills.
• Experience across infrastructure and app development architectures.

Responsibilities

• Act as DR event liaison and Infra spokesperson once threat identified.
• Understand DR process across infrastructure components.
• Represent Infrastructure in DR meetings with IT leadership.
• Provide maintenance solutions across technology areas such as database administration.
• Coordinate DR plans and testing to meet deadlines and quality standards.
• Influence beyond the Infrastructure tower and drive innovative solutions.

Skills

DR planning

Infra engineering

Agile method

Data analysis

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS

Tools

VMware vRO

ServiceNow

Fusion

Cloud platforms

Job description

Disaster Recovery Infrastructure Technical Lead

Location: Dublin (3 days onsite, 2 days wfh)

DR Exercises: please note this role will require weekend work 15-20 times over the 12 months, where time can then be taken off the following days in lieu)

Pay: EUR 60/hour via PAYE or EUR 78/hour via ltd/umbrella

Responsibilities

• Serve as key liaison during a Disaster Recovery Event for Infrastructure, serving as Infra spokesperson role as soon as a threat has been identified and facilitating communications


• Have or acquire an in depth understanding of the different moving parts and functions involved in the Disaster Recovery process especially as involves Infrastructure components


• Represent the Infrastructure towers in DR meetings with IT Leadership and operational committees to communicate the status, capabilities, and issues on the Infrastructure side


• Apply in-depth or broad technical knowledge to provide maintenance solutions across one or more technology areas (e.g., database administration)


• Integrate technical expertise and business understanding to coordinate / envision superior solutions for the Infrastructure components


• Assess and coordinate high availability and seamless failover resiliency mechanisms across multiple layers of the application and infrastructure stacks


• Manage the DR Plans and DR Testing of those plans to ensure all are updated/tested well within the due dates without extension


• Demonstrate technical expertise and exert influence outside of immediate Infrastructure tower


• Coordinate and drive innovative team solutions to complex problems


• Coordinate DR for new Infrastructure technologies


• Service as the POC for DR Test / incident management events across the Infrastructure towers


• Assist in integration of solutions into the DR automation program, reducing overall recovery time for Infrastructure services


• Coordinate innovation and technology experiments in private, public and hybrid cloud at enterprise scale


• Maintain an effective technical network across technical SMEs and architects for multiple service areas


• Analyze high volumes of technical and operational data during a disaster recovery event


• Ingest and communicate program metrics / issues with the greater Infrastructure team to allow for data-driven risk management and process improvements


• Sign off on Infrastructure procedural documentation, Disaster Recovery Plans, training modules, and other disaster recovery artifacts for quality assurance


• Coordinate and help to guide the implementation of a comprehensive testing strategy enabled through data analytics and automation


• Manage the Infrastructure remediation review program to ensure gaps identified by other functions and stakeholders are appropriately addressed


• Identify and remediate Infrastructure gaps identified by the control teams or audit, or through internal disaster recovery assessments


• Share key insights and learnings from participation in Infrastructure meetings to share with management

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Computer Science or a related discipline


• Operating as an Infrastructure technical engineer at enterprise scale


• Appropriate level of DR experience


• Advanced technical problem-solving skills


• Practical experience in both technology infrastructure and application development architectures


• Infrastructure and service architecture/engineering experience, including functional and technical requirements gathering, and solution development


• Strong system analysis and service development experience


• Practical experience operating in an Agile development environment


• Financial or Regulatory domain experience a plus


• VMWare vRO experience a plus


• Service Now experience


• Familiarity with Fusion a plus

Knowledge/Skills

• Experience in creating Disaster Recovery Plans and/or BCP and DR Plans


• Demonstrated understanding and knowledge of security concepts such as Replication and Backups, Enterprise Architecture, Authentication, Access Management, and Network Segmentation


• Experienced in conducting testing exercises for Disaster/BCP/Cyber Plans


• Well-versed in disaster security industry best practices and regulatory and compliance frameworks


• Highly motivated, energetic self-starter who takes ownership of issues and drives them to resolution


• Good organizational skills - manages and prioritizes multiple tasks across different time horizons within deadlines


• Cooperative, and collegial manner to be able to flex to wide range of stakeholders and in high-stakes situations


• Strong analytical, problem solving and process re-engineering skills


• Excellent project management skills; oral and written communication


• Skills in translating broad strategic intent into tactical plans and directions are essential


• Applies broad industry knowledge and awareness


• Negotiates with senior leaders across the business