Infrastructure Engineer - Disaster Recovery

Morgan McKinley; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan McKinley is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Disaster Recovery & Resilience Coordinator to join a global technology team within a leading financial services organisation on a 12-month contract in Ireland. The role focuses on coordinating DR exercises, failovers, and resilience activities across enterprise environments and IT services.

The ideal candidate will bring a strong infrastructure engineering background with practical DR experience, working with global teams to strengthen

Qualifications

• 7+ years' experience in enterprise infrastructure engineering or operations.
• 4+ years' experience in Disaster Recovery or infrastructure resilience.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and support Disaster Recovery exercises and failover activities across complex enterprise environments.
• Collaborate with global infrastructure teams to ensure critical services can be recovered after incidents or outages.
• Coordinate enterprise Disaster Recovery tests and planned failover exercises.
• Work with servers, storage, networking, databases, middleware and mainframe environments.
• Support application-level and point-in-time recovery activities.
• Coordinate Business Continuity Planning (BCP) exercises and infrastructure resilience testing.
• Monitor recovery activities, document outcomes and maintain audit evidence.
• Identify recovery gaps, track issues and coordinate remediation actions.
• Work with global technology stakeholders to strengthen infrastructure and cyber resilience.

Skills

Disaster Recovery

Infrastructure engineering

Resilience planning

Stakeholder management

BCP coordination

Tools

ServiceNow

VMware vRO

Control-M

Job description

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Infrastructure Disaster Recovery & Resilience Coordinator to join a global technology team within a leading financial services organisation. This is an exciting opportunity for an infrastructure professional with a strong technical background and proven experience in Disaster Recovery, infrastructure resilience and enterprise recovery operations. Important: We are looking for someone with a genuine infrastructure engineering background and practical Disaster Recovery experience. This is a technical role, rather than a purely project management, governance or business continuity position.

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for coordinating and supporting Disaster Recovery exercises, infrastructure failovers and recovery activities across complex enterprise environments.
• Working with global infrastructure teams, you will help ensure critical technology services can be recovered effectively following major incidents, outages or cyber events.
• Coordinate and support enterprise Disaster Recovery tests and planned failover exercises.
• Work with infrastructure teams across servers, storage, networking, databases, middleware and mainframe environments.
• Support application-level and point-in-time recovery activities.
• Coordinate Business Continuity Planning (BCP) exercises and infrastructure resilience testing.
• Monitor recovery activities, document outcomes and maintain audit evidence.
• Identify recovery gaps, track issues and coordinate remediation actions.
• Work with global technology stakeholders to strengthen infrastructure and cyber resilience.

Qualifications

• 7+ years' experience in enterprise infrastructure engineering or operations.
• 4+ years' experience in Disaster Recovery or infrastructure resilience.

Required Skills

• Practical experience coordinating or participating in enterprise DR testing and failover activities.
• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure technologies, including servers, storage, networks and databases.
• Knowledge of backup, replication, recovery processes and high availability.
• Experience with Business Continuity, recovery procedures and RTO/RPO.
• Strong communication, coordination and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Skills

• Financial services or banking experience.
• ServiceNow, VMware vRO and Control-M.
• Infrastructure automation and orchestration.
• Cyber recovery or ransomware resilience experience.

Pay range and compensation package

• 12-month initial contract, with potential for extension.
• Dublin-based hybrid working – 3 days per week onsite.
• Occasional planned evening, night or weekend work to support DR exercises.