Disaster Recovery Specialist

Realtime Recruitment; Dublin; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Realtime Recruitment Limited is seeking a Senior Disaster Recovery Architect to lead the design and delivery of a new third-site disaster recovery capability in Ireland. You will be the technical lead for cyber recovery, infrastructure resilience and business continuity from assessment to implementation-ready designs.

This hands-on architecture role offers ownership and visibility at governance level, collaborating with infrastructure, security, networking and application teams throughout

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Infrastructure, Recovery or Technical Architecture.
• Hands-on design and delivery of enterprise disaster recovery, covering: backup, replication and immutable storage.
• Cyber recovery vaults, air-gapped recovery and DR orchestration.
• Recovery strategy, business continuity and resilience planning.
• A track record of producing HLDs and LLDs.

Responsibilities

• Assess current backup, recovery and resilience capabilities and identify gaps.
• Define recovery requirements, including RTO and RPO targets.
• Design the third-site DR architecture and produce HLDs/LLDs.
• Define recovery solutions across infrastructure, apps, databases and identity platforms.
• Build recovery runbooks, operational procedures and recovery workflows.
• Lead technology evaluations and assess supplier proposals.
• Present designs to architecture and governance boards.
• Support DR testing and operational readiness.

Skills

Infrastructure architecture

DR design

Backup & recovery

Cyber recovery

Stakeholder engagement

Governance

DR runbooks

Technical leadership

Tools

VMware vSphere

Microsoft Active Directory

SQL Server

Oracle

Windows

Linux

Job description

Our client is building a new third-site disaster recovery capability, and they need a senior architect to lead its design from the ground up.

You’ll be the technical lead on cyber recovery, infrastructure resilience and business continuity for their third-site backup and recovery programme. You’ll take it from the first assessment through to implementation-ready designs. This is a hands‑on architecture role with real ownership and visibility at governance level.

What you’ll be doing

• Assessing current backup, recovery and resilience capabilities, and identifying the gaps
• Defining recovery requirements, including RTO and RPO targets
• Designing the third-site DR architecture and producing the High-Level and Low-Level Designs (HLDs/LLDs)
• Defining recovery solutions across infrastructure, applications, databases and identity platforms
• Building recovery runbooks, operational procedures and recovery workflows
• Leading technology evaluations and assessing supplier proposals
• Presenting designs to architecture and governance boards
• Supporting DR testing and operational readiness
• Working closely with infrastructure, security, networking and application teams throughout delivery

What you’ll bring

You’ll have strong experience in most of the following:

• 5+ years in Infrastructure, Recovery or Technical Architecture
• Hands-on design and delivery of enterprise disaster recovery, covering:
• backup, replication and immutable storage
• cyber recovery vaults, air-gapped recovery and DR orchestration
• Recovery strategy, business continuity and resilience planning
• A track record of producing HLDs and LLDs
• Recovery across these platforms:
• VMware vSphere
• Microsoft Active Directory
• SQL Server and/or Oracle
• Windows and Linux
• Confidence leading technical workshops and engaging senior stakeholders

What will make you stand out

• Third-site disaster recovery solutions
• Cyber recovery vault implementations
• Enterprise backup and recovery transformation programmes
• Recovery solutions for critical 24x7 services

Please note:

• DR Architect
• Recovery Architect
• Backup & Recovery Architect
• Resilience Architect
• Cyber Recovery Architect
• Infrastructure Architect

If your experience is mainly in security operations, IAM, GRC/compliance or cloud security, this role won’t be the right fit.