Lead Cyber Recovery Architect & Assurance

Diver5ify; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Diver5ify is seeking an independent technical leader to own the target cyber recovery architecture and govern the overall programme. You will act as the trusted advisor to define architecture for recovery capability, coordinating internal teams and third-party suppliers to ensure end-to-end resilience.

You will chair Design Authority forums, review supplier designs, assess risks, validate runbooks, and ensure alignment with RTOs/RPOs while supporting testing, training and readiness reviews.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and governing cyber recovery, DR or operational resilience programmes.
• Experience leading Design Authority, architecture governance and technical assurance.
• Track record managing architecture across multi-supplier programmes.
• Strong grounding in recovery architectures, cyber resilience and operational resilience frameworks.
• Identity and access expertise: AD, MFA, PAM and recovery authentication models.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical architecture lead for the programme, owning the target cyber recovery architecture.
• Set architecture principles, standards, reference architectures and design patterns for cyber recovery and operational resilience.
• Review and challenge technical designs, assumptions and supplier proposals.
• Identify architectural risks, technical debt, hidden dependencies and single points of failure.
• Validate recovery strategies, operating models and technology roadmaps.
• Sit on Design Authority and technical governance forums.
• Assess recovery runbooks and methodologies, and support recovery testing, simulation exercises and readiness reviews.
• Make sure solutions align with agreed RTOs and RPOs.
• Support procurement, technology evaluations and supplier selection.
• Provide architecture leadership across immutable backup platforms, cyber recovery vaults, clean room environments and application recovery.

Skills

Cyber recovery architecture

Architecture governance

Design Authority leadership

Stakeholder management

Identity and access expertise

VMware vSphere / enterprise infra

Job description

Diver5ify is seeking an independent technical leader to own the target cyber recovery architecture and govern the overall programme. You will act as the trusted advisor to define architecture for recovery capability, coordinating internal teams and third-party suppliers to ensure end-to-end resilience.

You will chair Design Authority forums, review supplier designs, assess risks, validate runbooks, and ensure alignment with RTOs/RPOs while supporting testing, training and readiness reviews.