IT Disaster Recovery & Recovery Architecture Lead

Stelfox; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 221,000 - 332,000; Full time

Job summary

Stelfox IT Recruitment is seeking a Disaster Recovery & Recovery Architecture Lead for a daily rate contract in Dublin. The role focuses on cyber recovery, infrastructure resilience and business continuity, designing a third-site DR capability and delivering HLDs/LLDs.

You will lead workshops, assess current capabilities, define RTO/RPO, map recovery across infra, apps and data, and work with infra, security, and networks to ensure readiness and governance approvals.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Infrastructure Architecture, Recovery Architecture or Technical Architecture.
• Enterprise Disaster Recovery design and implementation, data protection technologies including backup, replication, cyber recovery, immutable storage, recovery vaults, and disaster recovery orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Assess current backup, recovery and resilience capabilities.
• Define recovery requirements, including RTO and RPO targets.
• Design a third-site disaster recovery architecture.
• Produce High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs).
• Define recovery runbooks, operational procedures and recovery workflows.
• Lead technology evaluations and review supplier proposals.
• Define recovery solutions across infrastructure, applications, databases and identity platforms.
• Support disaster recovery testing and operational readiness.
• Present designs to architecture and governance boards.
• Work with infrastructure, security, networking and application teams throughout delivery.

Skills

Infrastructure Architecture

Recovery Architecture

Technical Architecture

Workshop Facilitation

Tools

VMware vSphere

Active Directory

SQL Server

Oracle

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Job description

Disaster Recovery & Recovery Architecture Lead - Daily Rate Contract - Hybrid-Working Model Dublin

Role Overview

The succesful candidate will design and deliver a new third-site disaster recovery capability for our client.

This is a 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess current backup, recovery and resilience capabilities.
• Define recovery requirements, including RTO and RPO targets.
• Design a third-site disaster recovery architecture.
• Produce High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs).
• Define recovery runbooks, operational procedures and recovery workflows.
• Lead technology evaluations and review supplier proposals.
• Define recovery solutions across infrastructure, applications, databases and identity platforms.
• Support disaster recovery testing and operational readiness.
• Present designs to architecture and governance boards.
• Work with infrastructure, security, networking and application teams throughout delivery.

Essential Experience:

Candidates should have strong experience in most of the following:

• 5+ years in Infrastructure Architecture, Recovery Architecture or Technical Architecture.
• Enterprise Disaster Recovery design and implementation, data protection technologies,including solutions for backup, replication, cyber recovery, immutable storage, recovery vaults, and disaster recovery orchestration. Air-gapped recovery solutions and cyber recovery vaults.

• Production of HLDs and LLDs.
• Recovery strategy, business continuity and resilience planning.
• VMware vSphere environments.
• Microsoft Active Directory and recovery.
• Microsoft SQL Server and/or Oracle recovery.
• Windows and Linux platform recovery.
• OpenShift and/or Kubernetes platforms.
• Leading technical workshops and stakeholder engagements.

Ideal Candidate

Has previously delivered one or more of the following:

• Third-site disaster recovery solutions.
• Cyber recovery vault implementations.
• Enterprise backup and recovery transformation programmes.
• Large-scale infrastructure resilience programmes.
• Recovery solutions for critical 24x7 business services.

Please note:

We have a number of similar positions currently, and in the future, which we would like to discuss with you should you indicate your interest in this role. When we receive your application for this role, we will contact you to advise you of our process for other similar positions.

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We look forward to working with you.